Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LIFE OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

BY

JACQUELINE M. OVERTON

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1933

TO THE BOYS AT THE YORKVILLE LIBRARY
AND
TO ALL OTHER BOYS
WHO LOVE TO TRAMP AND CAMP AND SEEK ADVENTURE
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
WITH THE HOPE OF MAKING THEM
BETTER FRIENDS WITH A MAN WHO ALSO
LOVED THESE THINGS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE LIGHTHOUSE BUILDERS 3

II. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 16

III. THE LANTERN BEARER 31

IV. EDINBURGH DAYS 47

V. AMATEUR EMIGRANT 72

VI. SCOTLAND AGAIN 93

VII. SECOND VISIT TO AMERICA 108

VIII. IN THE SOUTH SEAS 121

IX. VAILIMA 148

BIBLIOGRAPHY 175

ILLUSTRATIONS

Robert Louis Stevenson _Frontispiece_
From a photograph by Mr. Lloyd Osbourne
FACING
PAGE

No. 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Stevenson's birthplace 18

Colinton Manse 26

Swanston Cottage 42

Edinburgh Castle 64

Skerryvore Cottage, Bournemouth 98

The Treasure Island map 100

Facsimile of letter sent to Cummy with "An Inland Voyage" 106

Bas-relief of Stevenson by Augustus Saint Gaudens 112

South Sea houses 130

The house at Vailima 154

A feast of chiefs 162

The tomb of Stevenson on Vaea Mountain 172

THE LIFE OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

"Write me as one who loves his fellowmen."
--HUNT.