"Write me as one who loves his fellowmen." —H UNT ....

". . . For the sake Of these, my kinsmen and my countrymen, Who early and late in the windy ocean toiled To plant a star for seamen." The pirate, Ralph the Rover, so legend tells, while cruising off the coast of Scotland searching for booty or sport, sank the warning bell on one of the great rocks, to plague the good Abbot of Arbroath who had put it there. The following year the Rover returned and perished himself on the same rock. In the life of one of Scotland's great men, Robert Louis Stevens

"As from the house your mother sees You playing round the garden trees, So you may see, if you will look Through the window of this book, Another child, far, far away, And in another garden, play." —"Child's Garden of Verses." Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born at No. 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 13, 1850. In 1852 the family moved from Howard Place to Inverleith Terrace, and two years later to No. 17 Heriot Row, which remained their home for many years. As a child Louis was

"Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In school, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of the art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought, Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down on any chart." —L ONGFELLOW . School days began for Louis in 1859, but were continually interrupted by illness, travel, and change of school. His father did not believe in forcing him to study; so he roamed through school according to his own sw

"I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay. "There's a schooner in the offing, With her topsails shot with fire, And my heart has gone aboard her For the island of Desire." —R ICHARD H OVEY . In spite of the fact that his law studies now left him an opportunity for the work he wanted so much to do, Louis was far from happy, for between his parents and himself, who had always been the best of friends, there were many misunders

"Hope went before them And the world was wide." In the summer of 1879 R.L.S. was once more seized with the desire to roam and to roam farther than ever before. California had been beckoning to him for some time, and in August he suddenly made up his mind, and with scarcely a word of farewell to his family and friends he embarked on the steamship Devonia , bound for New York. Partly for the sake of economy, for he determined to pay his own way on this venture, and partly because he was anxious to

"Bells upon the city are ringing in the night, High above the gardens are the houses full of light, On the heathy Pentlands is the curlew flying free, And the broom is blowing bonnie in the north countrie. "We canna break the bonds that God decreed to bind, Still we'll be the children of the heather and the wind, Far away from home O, it's still for you and me That the broom is blowing bonnie in the north countrie." On his return to Scotland the spell of his own land fell upon R.L.S. for the fir

"Tis a good land to fall in with men, and a pleasant land to see." —( Words spoken by Hendrik Hudson when he first brought his ship through the Narrows and saw the Bay of New York .) Stevenson's second landing in New York was a great contrast to his first. The "Amateur Emigrant" had no one to bid him welcome and Godspeed but a West Street tavern-keeper, and now when Mr. Will Low, his old friend of Fontainebleau days, hastened to the dock to welcome him on the Ludgate Hill , he found the author o

"Since long ago, a child at home, I read and longed to rise and roam, Where'er I went, what'er I willed, One promised land my fancy filled. Hence the long road my home I made; Tossed much in ships; have often laid Below the uncurtained sky my head, Rain-deluged and wind buffeted; And many a thousand miles I crossed, And corners turned—love's labor lost, Till, Lady, to your isle of sun I came, not hoping, and like one Snatched out of blindness, rubbed my eyes, And hailed my promised land with cri

"We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful, for the friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle.... Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it

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Low, Will H.: "Chronicle of Friendships." Chapters relating to Stevenson's second visit to New York and his meeting with General Sherman and the sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Saint-Gaudens, Augustus: "Reminiscences of Saint-Gaudens." Chapters dealing with Mr. Saint-Gaudens's recollections of Stevenson at the time he made his portrait. Stevenson, Mrs. Margaret: "Letters—From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond." Poems by Stevenson: "In the States." "Winter."...

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