Other Titles in this series: Estrays. Poems by Thomas Kennedy, George Seymour, Vincent Starrett, and Basil Thompson. William De Morgan, a Post-Victorian Realist , by Flora Warren Seymour. Lyrics , by Laura Blackburn. Pen and Ink Sketch of Robert Louis Stevenson, by Wyatt Eaton Kind permission of Mr. S. S. McClure Stevenson at Manasquan By Charlotte Eaton With a Note on the Fate of the Yacht "Casco" by Francis Dickie and Six Portraits from Stevenson by George Steele Seymour CHICAGO THE BOOKFELLOW

When I came face to face with Robert Louis Stevenson it was the realization of one of my most cherished dreams. This was at Manasquan, a village on the New Jersey coast, where he had come to make a farewell visit to his old friend Will Low, the artist. Mr. Low had taken a cottage there that summer while working on his series of Lamia drawings for Lippincott's, and Stevenson, hearing that we were on the other side of the river, sent word that he would come to see us on the morrow. "Stevenson is c

There are ships that, like certain people, seem created for an unusual and distinguishing destiny, and are unable long to survive the destruction of those peculiar conditions that have given them their dominating qualities, animation and color. Mr. Francis Dickie of Vancouver, B. C., has described with a vivid pen the later adventures and slow foundering of the Casco . This gentleman has kindly given me permission to reprint it here. Our sympathy goes out to the beautiful yacht in her lonely buf

FOOTNOTES: [A] Lescaris was a Greek shepherd who discovered the secret of transmuting the baser metals to fine gold. [B] Paua—Native name for the Tridacna Gigus, a huge clam. When it closes on any one, his only escape is by losing the limb....