the "1814" and "1815" of M. Henri
Houssaye were sent accordingly.

[59] Ultimately _The Ebb Tide_.

[60] For a volume of selected _Essays_, containing the pick of
_Virginibus Puerisque_, _Memories and Portraits_, and _Across the
Plains_.

[61] _The Owl_ was to be a Breton story of the Revolution; _Death in
the Pot_, a tale of the Sta. Lucia mountains in California; the
scene of _The Go-Between_ was laid in the Pacific Islands; of _The
Sleeper Awakened_ I know nothing.

[62] Of _Island Nights' Entertainments_.

[63] John Addington Symonds.

[64] _Across the Plains._

[65] Volume of sonnets by Jose Maria de Heredia.

[66] Dr. Fairfax Ross, a distinguished physician of Sydney, and
friend of the Stevenson family, who during a visit to England this
summer had conveyed to me no very reassuring impression as to the
healthfulness of the island life and climate.

[67] W. Hole, R.S.A.: essential for the projected illustrations to
_Kidnapped_ and _Catriona_.

[68] Mr. S. R. Crockett. The words quoted from this gentleman's
dedication were worked by Stevenson into a very moving and
metrically original set of verses, addressed to him in
acknowledgment (_Songs of Travel_, xlii.).

[69] Simon Fraser, the Master of Lovat, in _Catriona_: the spelling
of his name.

[70] The bust was exhibited in the New Gallery Summer Exhibition, 1895.

[71] _Island Nights' Entertainments._

[72] _The Window in Thrums_, with illustrations by W. Hole, R.S.A.
Hodder and Stoughton. 1892.

[73] The scheme of the Edinburgh Edition.

XIV

LIFE IN SAMOA--_Concluded_

FOURTH YEAR AT VAILIMA--THE END

JANUARY-DECEMBER 1894

This new year began for Stevenson with an illness which seemed to leave
none of the usual lowering consequences, and for Samoa with fresh
rumours of war, which were not realised until the autumn, and then--at
least in the shape of serious hostilities--in the district of Atua only
and not in his own. On the whole Stevenson's bodily health and vigour
kept at a higher level than during the previous year. But for serious
imaginative writing he found himself still unfit, and the sense that his
old facility had for the time being failed him caused him much inward
misgiving. In his correspondence the misgiving mood was allowed to
appear pretty freely; but in personal intercourse his high spirits
seemed to his family and visito