ANDOM MEMORIES:

II. THE EDUCATION OF AN ENGINEER 167

III. A CHAPTER ON DREAMS 177

IV. BEGGARS 190

V. THE LANTERN-BEARERS 200

LATER ESSAYS

I. FONTAINEBLEAU: VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS 215

II. A NOTE ON REALISM 234

III. ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE 241

IV. THE MORALITY OF THE PROFESSION OF LETTERS 260

V. BOOKS WHICH HAVE INFLUENCED ME 272

VI. THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW 279

VII. LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE
THE CAREER OF ART 290

VIII. PULVIS ET UMBRA 299

IX. A CHRISTMAS SERMON 306

X. FATHER DAMIEN: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR.
HYDE OF HONOLULU 315

XI. MY FIRST BOOK--"TREASURE ISLAND" 331

XII. THE GENESIS OF "THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE" 341

XIII. RANDOM MEMORIES: _Rosa Quo Locorum_ 345

XIV. REFLECTIONS AND REMARKS ON HUMAN LIFE 354

XV. THE IDEAL HOUSE 370

LAY MORALS 379

PRAYERS WRITTEN FOR FAMILY USE AT VAILIMA 431

RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS

RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS

INTRODUCTION

THE SURNAME OF STEVENSON

From the thirteenth century onwards, the name, under the various
disguises of Stevinstoun, Stevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and
Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth
to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times at least it occurs as a
place-name. There is a parish of Stevenston in Cunningham; a second
place of the name in the Barony of Bothwell in Lanark; a third on Lyne,
above Drochil Castle; the fourth on the Tyne, near Traprain Law.
Stevenson of Stevenson (co. Lanark) swore fealty to Edward I. in 1296,
and the last of that family died after the Restoration. Stevensons of
Hirdmanshiels, in Midlothian, rode in the Bishops' Raid of Aberlady,
served as jurors, stood bail for neighbours--Hunter of