Footnotes

  1. Professor Charles Warren Stoddard, Professor of English Literature at the Catholic University of Washington, in Kate Field’s Washington. ↩

  2. In his portrait-sketch of his father, Stevenson speaks of him as a “man of somewhat antique strain, and with a blended sternness and softness that was wholly Scottish, and at first sight somewhat bewildering,” as melancholy, and with a keen sense of his unworthiness, yet humorous in company; shrewd and childish; a capital adviser. ↩

  3. Inferno, Canto XV. ↩

  4. Alas, I never was told that remark—when I saw my friend afterwards there was always too much to talk of else, and I forgot to ask. ↩

  5. Quoted by Hammerton, pp. 2 and 3. ↩

  6. Tusitala, as the reader must know, is the Samoan for Teller of Tales. ↩

  7. Wisdom of Goethe, p. 38. ↩

  8. The Foreigner at Home, in Memories and Portraits. ↩

  9. A great deal has been made of the “John Bull element” in De Quincey since his Memoir was written by me (see Masson’s Condensation, p. 95); so now perhaps a little more may be made of the rather conceited Calvinistic Scot element in R. L. Stevenson! ↩

  10. It was Mr George Moore who said this. ↩

  11. Fortnightly Review, October, 1903. ↩

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