CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
CHAPTER II GHOSTS
CHAPTER III PARENTS AND EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER IV A SUBSTITUTE FOR PISTOL AND BALL
CHAPTER V DISCOVERIES ON TWO CONTINENTS
CHAPTER VI PEDAGOGY, PUGILISM AND LETTERS
CHAPTER VII BLUBBER AND MYSTICISM
CHAPTER VIII LEVIATHAN
CHAPTER IX THE PACIFIC
CHAPTER X MAN-EATING EPICURES THE MARQUESAS
CHAPTER XI MUTINY AND MISSIONARIES TAHITI
CHAPTER XII ON BOARD A MAN-OF-WAR
CHAPTER XIII INTO THE RACING TIDE
CHAPTER XIV ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AGAIN
CHAPTER XV A NEIGHBOUR OF HAWTHORNE'S
CHAPTER XVI THE GREAT REFUSAL
CHAPTER XVII THE LONG QUIETUS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF NAMES
Transcriber's Note
HERMAN MELVILLE
Mariner and Mystic
RAYMOND M. WEAVER
Engraved on wood, by L. F. Grant.
From a photograph.
signature
HERMAN MELVILLE
MARINER AND MYSTIC
BY
RAYMOND M. WEAVER
leviathan attacking a ship
New York George H. Doran Company
COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
PROFESSOR FRANKLIN T. BAKER
“—il maestro cortese”
To Professor Carl Van Doren, to Miss Cora Paget, and to Mrs. Eleanor Melville Metcalf, I am, in the writing of this book, very especially indebted. By Professor Van Doren’s enthusiasm and scholarship I was instigated to a study of Melville. It has been my privilege to enjoy Miss Paget’s very valuable criticism and assistance throughout the preparation of this volume. Mrs. Metcalf gave me access to all the surviving records of her grandfather: Melville manuscripts, letters, journals, annotated books, photographs, and a variety of other material. But she did far more. My indebtedness to Mrs. Metcalf’s vivid interest, her shrewd insight, her keen sympathy can be stated only in superlatives. To Mrs. and Mr. Metcalf I owe one of the richest and most pleasant associations of my life.
Raymond M. Weaver.
October 1, 1921.
Most of the letters of Melville to Hawthorne included in this volume are quoted from Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, by Julian Hawthorne. These letters, and other citations from Mr. Hawthorne’s memoir, are included through the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company.
