day, and the work was rushed through. We then, my daughter, my son, and myself, were set to work helping address the pamphlets, which were scattered far and wide. Father Damien was vindicated by a stranger, a man of another country and another religion from his own. F. V. de G. S. de p. xiiiContents: p. xiii Preface by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Lay Morals Father Damien The Pentland Rising I. The Causes of the Revolt II. The Beginning III. The March of the Rebels IV. Rullion Green V. A Record of Blood The Day After To-morrow College Papers I. Edinburgh Students in 1824 II. The Modern Student III. Debating Societies Criticisms I. Lord Lytton’s “Fables in Song” II. Salvini’s Macbeth III. Bagster’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” Sketches I. The Satirist II. Nuits Blanches III. The Wreath of Immortelles IV. Nurses V. A Character p. xivThe Great North Road I. Nance at the “Green Dragon” II. In which Mr. Archer is Installed III. Jonathan Holdaway IV. Mingling Threads V. Life in the Castle IV. The Bad Half-Crown VII. The Bleaching-Green VIII. The Mail Guard The Young Chevalier Prologue: The Wine-Seller’s Wife I. The Prince Heathercat I. Traqairs of Montroymont II. Francie III. The Hill-End of Drumlowe p. xiv LAY MORALS The following chapters of a projected treatise on Ethics were drafted at Edinburgh in the spring of 1879. They are unrevised, and must not be taken as representing, either as to matter or form, their author’s final thoughts; but they contain much that is essentially characteristic of his mind. Copyright in the United States of America. CHAPTER I The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again;
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