E-text prepared by Marius Masi, Jonathan Ingram, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 31291-h.htm or 31291-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31291/pg31291-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31291/31291-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Letters following a carat (^) were originally printed in superscript. A list of corrections is at the end of this e-book THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XXII _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._ .......... [Illustration: R. L. S. SPEARING FISH IN THE BOW OF THE SCHOONER "EQUATOR"] THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON VOLUME TWENTY-TWO LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS JUVENILIA AND OTHER PAPERS THE PENTLAND RISING PAGE I. THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLT 3 II. THE BEGINNING 6 III. THE MARCH OF THE REBELS 8 IV. RULLION GREEN 13 V. A RECORD OF BLOOD 17 SKETCHES I. THE SATIRIST 25 II. NUITS BLANCHES 27 III. THE WREATH OF IMMORTELLES 30 IV. NURSES 34 V. A CHARACTER 37 COLLEGE PAPERS I. EDINBURGH STUDENTS IN 1824 41 II. THE MODERN STUDENT CONSIDERED GENERALLY 45 III. DEBATING SOCIETIES 53 IV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF UMBRELLAS 58 V. THE PHILOSOPHY OF NOMENCLATURE 63 NOTES AND ESSAYS CHIEFLY OF THE ROAD I. A RETROSPECT 71 II. COCKERMOUTH AND KESWICK 80 III. ROADS 90 IV. NOTES ON THE MOVEMENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN 97 V. ON THE ENJOYMENT OF UNPLEASANT PLACES 103 VI. AN AUTUMN EFFECT 112 VII. A WINTER'S WALK IN CARRICK AND GALLOWAY 132 VIII. FOREST NOTES 142 CRITICISMS