(1) Professor Charles Warren Stoddard, Professor of English Literature at the Catholic University of Washington, in KATE FIELD'S WASHINGTON.
(2) In his portrait-sketch of his father, Stevenson speaks of him as a "man of somewhat antique strain, and with a blended sternness and softness that was wholly Scottish, and at first sight somewhat bewildering," as melancholy, and with a keen sense of his unworthiness, yet humorous in company; shrewd and childish; a capital adviser.
(3) INFERNO, Canto XV.
(4) Alas, I never was told that remark - when I saw my friend afterwards there was always too much to talk of else, and I forgot to ask.
(5) Quoted by Hammerton, pp. 2 and 3.
(6) Tusitala, as the reader must know, is the Samoan for Teller of Tales.
(7) WISDOM OF GOETHE, p. 38.
(8) THE FOREIGNER AT HOME, in MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS.
(9) A great deal has been made of the "John Bull element" in De Quincey since his MEMOIR was written by me (see MASSON'S CONDENSATION, p. 95); so now perhaps a little more may be made of the rather conceited Calvinistic Scot element in R. L. Stevenson!
(10) It was Mr George Moore who said this.
(11) FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, October, 1903.
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