...A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Foot... ...A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote t... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- vers... ...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... .... In addition to the old conundrum, “Who is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the vice-king?” Two royal lines; some cloudy idea of alte... ...e continued to strengthen himself in Leulumoenga, and Laupepa sat inactive listening to the song of consuls. Captain Brandeis. The new actor was Brand... ...e than once is- sued orders forbidding Samoans to take money from “the New Zealand firm.” These, when they were brought to his notice, Brandeis disown... ...d destroy- ing gardens. The T amasese had at first evacuated several beach towns in succession, and were still in retreat on Lotoanuu; finding themsel...

...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

... In Th... ... In The Sout... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...a State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way... ...ds the close of ’89. By that time gratitude and habit were beginning to attach me to the is- lands; I had gained a competency of strength; I had made ... ...unded with the articulations of the mountains; and the isle and its unsub- stantial canopy rose and shimmered before us like a single mass. There was ... ...mon to both races: common to both tongues the trick of dropping medial consonants. Here is a table of two widespread Polynesian words:— House. Love. T... ...esist before he had divined the principles; and he was interested even to excitement by a type-writer, which he learned to work. When he departed he c...

Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

...THE LETTERS OF R OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Th... ...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...lume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...t is about half-way down this shore – no, six-sevenths way down – that the new breakwater extends athwart the bay. Certainly Wick in itself possesses ... ... remember condemning something of mine for being too obtrusively didactic. Listen to Herbert – ‘Is it not verse except enchanted groves And sudden arb... ... to Melford and Lavenham, both exceptionally placid, beautiful old English towns. Melford scattered all round a big green, with an Elizabethan Hall an... ... couldn’t get it off. Awfully nice man here to-night. Public servant – New Zealand. Telling us all about the South Sea Islands till I was sick with de...

Excerpt: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One.

...MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memori... ...MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and... ...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amount of drinking i... ..., with every feature of the life and landscape. The warm, habitable age of towns and hamlets, the green, settled, ancient look of the country; the lus... ...f burr; telling strange tales with singular deliberation and, to a patient listener, excellent ef- fect. After all these ups and downs, he seemed stil... ...ere consulting engineers to the Indian, the 59 Memories and Portraits New Zealand, and the Japanese Lighthouse Boards, so that Edinburgh was a world ...

...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...