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               THE WORKS OF

          ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

             SWANSTON EDITION

                VOLUME IX


  _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five
  Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS
  STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies
  have been printed, of which only Two Thousand
  Copies are for sale._

         _This is No._........


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             THE WORKS OF

             ROBERT LOUIS

               STEVENSON

              VOLUME NINE


  LONDON : PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND
  WINDUS : IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL
  AND COMPANY LIMITED : WILLIAM
  HEINEMANN : AND LONGMANS GREEN
  AND COMPANY              MDCCCCXI




         ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


CONTENTS


MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS

                                              PAGE
     I. THE FOREIGNER AT HOME                    7

    II. SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES                   19

   III. OLD MORTALITY                           26

    IV. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE                      36

     V. AN OLD SCOTS GARDENER                   46

    VI. PASTORAL                                53

   VII. THE MANSE                               61

  VIII. MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET                     68

    IX. THOMAS STEVENSON                        75

     X. TALK AND TALKERS: I.                    81

    XI. TALK AND TALKERS: II.                   94

   XII. THE CHARACTER OF DOGS                  105

  XIII. A PENNY PLAIN AND TWOPENCE     116

   XIV. A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS'S         124

    XV. A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE                    134

   XVI. A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE                  148


MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN

  CHAPTER I
                                                                    PAGE
  The Jenkins of Stowting--Fleeming's grandfather--Mrs. Buckner's
    fortune--Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets
    King Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his career--The
    Campbell-Jacksons--Fleeming's mother--Fleeming's uncle John      165

  CHAPTER II

  1833-1851

  Birth and childhood--Edinburgh--Frankfort-on-the-Main--Paris--The
    Revolution of 1848--The Insurrection--Flight to Italy--Sympathy
    with Italy--The insurrection in Genoa--A student in Genoa--The
    lad and his mother                                               184

  CHAPTER III

  1851-1858

  Return to England--Fleeming at Fairbairn's--Experience in a
    strike--Dr. Bell and Greek architecture--The Gaskells--Fleeming
    at Greenwich--The Austins--Fleeming and the Austins--His
    engagement--Fleeming and Sir W. Thomson                          203

  CHAPTER IV

  1859-1868

  Fleeming's marriage--His married life--Professional
    difficulties--Life at Claygate--Illness of