I. LORD LYTTON'S "FABLES IN SONG" 171 II. SALVINI'S MACBETH 180 III. BAGSTER'S "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS" 186 AN APPEAL TO THE CLERGY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND 199 THE CHARITY BAZAAR 213 THE LIGHT-KEEPER 217 ON A NEW FORM OF INTERMITTENT LIGHT FOR LIGHTHOUSES 220 ON THE THERMAL INFLUENCE OF FORESTS 225 ESSAYS OF TRAVEL I. DAVOS IN WINTER 241 II. HEALTH AND MOUNTAINS 244 III. ALPINE DIVERSIONS 248 IV. THE STIMULATION OF THE ALPS 252 STEVENSON AT PLAY INTRODUCTION BY LLOYD OSBOURNE 259 WAR CORRESPONDENCE FROM STEVENSON'S NOTE-BOOK 263 THE DAVOS PRESS MORAL EMBLEMS, ETC.: FACSIMILES ADVERTISEMENT OF BLACK CANYON BLACK CANYON, OR WILD ADVENTURES IN THE FAR WEST NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS MORAL EMBLEMS ADVERTISEMENT OF MORAL EMBLEMS: EDITION DE LUXE ADVERTISEMENT OF MORAL EMBLEMS: SECOND COLLECTION MORAL EMBLEMS: SECOND COLLECTION A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS ADVERTISEMENT OF THE GRAVER AND THE PEN THE GRAVER AND THE PEN MORAL TALES ROBIN AND BEN; OR, THE PIRATE AND THE APOTHECARY THE BUILDER'S DOOM JUVENILIA AND OTHER PAPERS THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 A cloud of witnesses ly here, Who for Christ's interest did appear. _Inscription on Battle-field at Rullion Green._ EDINBURGH ANDREW ELLIOT, 17 PRINCES STREET 1866 _Facsimile of original Title-page_ THE PENTLAND RISING I THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLT "Halt, passenger; take heed what thou dost see, This tomb doth show for what some men did die." _Monument, Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh_, 1661-1668.[1] Two hundred years ago a tragedy was enacted in Scotland, the memory whereof has been in great measure lost or obscured by the deep tragedies which followed it. It is, as it were, the evening of the night of persecution--a sort of twilight, dark indeed to us, but light as the noonday when compared with the midnight gloom which followed. This fact, of its being the very threshold of persecution, lends it, however, an additional interest.