[Note 31: Meticulous . Timid. From the Latin, meticulosus .]
[Note 32: Kindly . Here used in the old sense of "natural." Compare the Litany, "the kindly fruits of the earth."]
[Note 33: "_The real long-lived things_." For Whitman, see our Note 12 of
Chapter III
above.]
[Note 34: _Robert Hunter, Sheriff of Dumbarton_. Hunter recognised the genius in Stevenson long before the latter became known to the world, and gave him much friendly encouragement. Dumbarton is a town about 16 miles north-west of Glasgow, in Scotland. It contains a castle famous in history and in literature.]
[Note 35: A novel by Miss Mather . The name should be "Mathers." Helen Mathers (Mrs. Henry Reeves), born in 1853, has written a long series of novels, of which _My Lady Greensleeves, The Sin of Hagar_ and Venus
