Leon H. Vincent

CONTENTS

THE BIBLIOTAPH: A PORTRAIT NOT WHOLLY IMAGINARY

THE BIBLIOTAPH: HIS FRIENDS, SCRAP-BOOKS, AND 'BINS'

LAST WORDS ON THE BIBLIOTAPH

THOMAS HARDY

A READING IN THE LETTERS OF JOHN KEATS

AN ELIZABETHAN NOVELIST

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FAIR-MINDED MAN

CONCERNING A RED WAISTCOAT

STEVENSON: THE VAGABOND AND THE PHILOSOPHER

STEVENSON'S ST. IVES

And Other People

BY

LEON H. VINCENT

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1899

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY LEON H. VINCENT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TO MY FATHER
THE REV. B. T. VINCENT, D.D.
THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS
Dedicated
WITH LOVE AND ADMIRATION

Four of these papers—the first Bibliotaph, and the notes on Keats, Gautier, and Stevenson’s St. Ives—are reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly by the kind permission of the editor.

I am also indebted to the literary editor of the Springfield Republican and to the editors of Poet-Lore, respectively, for allowing me to reprint the paper on Thomas Hardy and the lecture on An Elizabethan Novelist.