hods of Scotch education (for he was a true lover of
youth, and cared more for character being formed than for heads being
merely crammed). Sagacious, with fine forecast, with a high ideal, and
yet up to a certain point a most tolerant temper, he was a fine specimen
of the Scottish gentleman. His son tells that, as he was engaged in work
calculated to benefit the world and to save life, he would not for long
take out a patent for his inventions, and thus lost immense sums. I can
well believe that: it seems quite in keeping with my impressions of the
man. There was nothing stolid or selfishly absorbed in him. He bore the
marks of deep, true, honest feeling, true benevolence, and open-handed
generosity, and despite the son's great pen-craft, and inventive power,
would have forgiven my saying that sometimes I have had a doubt whether
the father was not, after all, the greater man of the two, though
certainly not, like the hero of _In Memoriam_, moulded "in colossal
calm."

In theological matters, in which Thomas Stevenson had been much and
deeply exercised, he held very strong views, leading decisively to ultra-
Calvinism; but, as I myself could well sympathise with such views, if I
did not hold them, knowing well the strange ways in which they had gone
to form grand, if sometimes sternly forbidding characters, there were no
cross-purposes as there might have been with some on that subject. And
always I felt I had an original character and a most interesting one to
study.

This is another very characteristic letter to me from Davos Platz:

"CHALET BUOL, DAVOS, GRISONS,
SWITZERLAND. (_No date_.)

"MY DEAR DR JAPP,--You must think me a forgetful rogue, as indeed I
am; for I have but now told my publisher to send you a copy of the
_Familiar Studies_. However, I own I have delayed this letter till I
could send you the enclosed. Remembering the night at Braemar, when
we visited the picture-gallery, I hoped they might amuse you.

"You see we do some publishing hereaway.

"With kind regards, believe me, always yours faithfully,

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON."

"I shall hope to see you in town in May."

The enclosed was the second series of _Moral Emblems_, by R. L.
Stevenson, printed by Samuel Osbourne. My answer to this letter brought
the following:

"CHALET-BUOL, DAVOS,
_April_ 1_st_, 1882.

"MY DEAR DR JAPP,--A good day to date this letter, which is, in fact,
a co