Footnotes

[xv]  Vailima Letters: Methuen and Co., 1895.

[xxi]  Compare Virginibus Puerisque: the essay on ‘The English Admirals.’

[xxx]  The fragment called Lay Morals, at present only printed in the Edinburgh edition (Miscellanies, vol. iv.), contains the pith of his mental history on these subjects.

[17]  Aikman’s Annals of the Persecution in Scotland.

[24]  Thomas Stevenson.

[56]  See Scott himself in the preface to the Author’s edition.

[67]  Compare the paragraph in ‘Ordered South’ describing the state of mind of the invalid doubtful of recovery, and ending: ‘He will pray for Medea; when she comes, let here either rejuvenate or slay.’

[144]  ‘The Story of a Lie.’

[149]  Engraisser, grow fat.

[161]  Here follows a long calculation of ways and means.

[185]  ‘The whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be in Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons.’—See ‘Wandering Willie’s Tale’ in Redgauntlet, borrowed perhaps from Christ’s Kirk of the Green.

[186]  In architecture, a series of piles to defend the pier of a bridge.

[191]  Gentleman’s library.

[209]  The reference is of course to Wordsworth’s Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle.

[210]  At Davos-Platz.

[223]  From Landor’s Gebir: the line refers to Napoleon Bonaparte.

[263]  Fair copy of some of the Child’s Garden verses.

[269]  Silverado Squatters.

[289]  The well-known Scottish landscape painter, who had been a friend of Stevenson’s in youth.

[290]  Croûtes: crude studies or daubs from nature.

[303]  A favourite Skye terrier.  Mr. Stevenson was a great lover of dogs.

[318]  The essay so called.  See Memories and Portraits.

[330]  Of Sophocles.

[337]  Cough.

[338]  Loose talk.

[339]  Mr. Charles Morley, at this time manager or assistant-manager of the Pall Mall Gazette.

[368]  Princess Casamassina.

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