Adventures among books -- Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson. -- Rab's friend -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Mr. Morris's poems -- Mrs. Radcliffe's novels -- A Scottish romanticist of 1830 [T.T. Stoddart] -- The Confessions of Saint Augustine -- Smollett -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The paradise of poets -- Paris and Helen -- Enchanted cigarettes -- Stories and story-telling -- The supernatural in fiction -- An old Scottish psychical researcher [G. Sinclair] -- The boy.