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his death, four years later. His days there were passed with great zest in multiplied occupation. The natives knew him by the musical name of Tusitala, "teller of tales." In the year 1892 his health again broke sadly. Trips to Sydney and to Honolulu failed to benefit him, and his energies began to flag. His annual income during the last few years of his life was between $20,000 and $25,000, but his generosity was boundless, and he saved little. In the few months previous to the close of his life he seemed to be filled with a great weariness and to experience premonitions of his early decease.

The end came suddenly on the 3d of December, 1894. Stevenson had been working on Weir of Hermiston at the height of his powers. All the morning he had wrought in a glow of satisfaction which only the true artist can feel. At evening, while he was in the most buoyant spirits, he was struck down. His loved ones stood about him, watching the ebbing away of the life so dear to all-drinking the deep

bitterness of that hour when human impotency is most sharply felt in the presence of the dissolution of nature's fondest ties. "He died at ten minutes past eight on Monday evening, the 3d of December, in the forty-fifth year of his age." The burial took place in the afternoon of the succeeding day. His dust lies on the summit of a mountain of his well-loved Samoa until the dawning of that morning when God shall summon all earth's sleepers to awake.

At his death Stevenson left two incomplete stories, St. Ives and Weir of Hermiston, both of these among the best products of his pen. His art ripened and improved to the very last. St. Ives was completed by Mr. A. T. Quiller-Couch, and Weir of Hermiston by Mr. Sidney Colvin, the latter adding one or two brief notes to the unfinished story.

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"Arts of Life, The Lesser," 63. Buchanan, Robert, 161, 162.

Arnold, Matthew, 11.

Atalanta's Race, 68.

Atlantic Monthly, 204.

Austen, Jane, 145.

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"Bucolics," Virgil's, 179.

Buller, Charles, 19.

Burne-Jones, Edward, 54, 56,

58, 59.
Burns, 183.

Burton, Sir Frederick, 135.
Byron, Lord, 15, 16, 42, 91, 96,

99, 103, 179.

Caine, Hall, 42, 163.

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Caius Cestius, 112.

California, 231.

Cambridge, 187.
Carlyle, Mrs., 47.

Carlyle, Thomas, 10, 20, 45, 46,
138, 175, 182.

Carroll, Lewis, 162.

Casaubon, Dorothea, 120.

Casco, schooner, 240.

Cavaliers, 184, 185.

Celtic race, 31.
Cévennes, 231.

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"Eve of St. Agnes, The," 97.
Exeter College, 54.

Low-" Fable for Critics," 191.
"Faerie Queene, The," 179.
Fairlop Oak, 52.

Falstaff, 227.

Farringford, 30.

Felix Holt," 128, 143.
Feuerbach, 117.

"Fifine at the Fair," 162.

Fitzgerald, Edward, 10, 14, 17,45;
Fleshly School of Poetry, The,
161.

Florence, 128, 130.

"Cupid and Psyche, The Story Forman, Buxton, 72.

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of," 72.

Froissart, Chronicles of, 56.
Froude, 48.

Fytche, Elizabeth, 15, 17, 18.

Gifford, 93, 94, 96.
Gilberts (islands), 242.

"Gilfil's Love Story, Mr.," 122,

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Janet Nicoll, schooner, 242.

Hallam, Arthur, 11, 19, 22, 25, 27. Janet's Repentance," 123.

Hale End, 52.

Hallam, Henry, 11.

Halleck, 192.

Hampden, 184.

Hardy, Thomas, 41, 138.

"Harold," 39.

Harvard, 178, 204.

Harvard Law School, 189.

Hawthorne, 125, 192.

Haydon, 92.

Hazlitt, 88, 92.

Heath, Douglas, 19, 21.

"Jason, The Life and Death of,"
66, 71.

"Jenny," 157.

"Jesus, Life of," 117.

Jex-Blake, 58.

Job, Book of, 34.

Johnson, Lionel, 78.

Jowett, Benjamin, 10, 28, 44.
"July," 69.

Keats, John, 42, 85 et seq., 155,

Heath Slayings, The Story of 175, 212.

the," 72.

Hebrides, The, 237.

Henley, W. E., 219, 229.

Kelmscott, 51, 71, 80, 163.

Kemble, J. M., 10, 19, 21.

"Kidnapped," 237.

Hen Thorir, The Story of," 72. King Arthur, 33.

High Beech, 27.

Highgate Cemetery, 141.

"Hill of Venus, The," 69.
Hippocrene, Fountain of, 188.

"Hogni and Hedinn, The Tale

of," 72.
Holmes, O. W., 8.
Honolulu, 240, 242, 243.

Hooker, Bishop, 103.

Hope, Anthony, 125.

Hope (poet), 179.

Horace, 138, 179.

King's College, 151.
Kingsley, 115, 125.
Körner, 90, 101, 109.

Ladislaw, Will, 120.

"Lady of the Land, The," 69.
Lamb, Charles, 138, 212.

"Land East of the Sun," etc., 69.
Landor, 175:

Lawless, Miss, 42.

"Lay Sermons," Coleridge's, 193.
Lear, Edward, 10.

Houghton, Lord. (See Milnes," Legend of Jubal, The," 137.

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Howitt, Mary, 45.

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132, 133, 134, 140, 141.
Lincoln, Abraham, 8.

Lincoln, Blakesley, Dean of, 19.
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 134,

135, 141.

"How Lisa Loved the King," 137. London Chronicle, The, 142.

Hunt, Holman, 152.

Hunt, Leigh, 90, 92, 110, 112.

London, Trench, Archbishop of,

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