Show STEVENSON IN SAMOA Life of the Writer In His Island Home Very Near the Ideal Stevensons life In Samoa Is In some ways the most Interesting story of all and here again you can Jim that story in his own writings says Ariadne Gilbert in Tho Lighthouse Builders Son In St Nicholas This time however It Is in his letters more than in his hooks These let bra are so vivid moreover that you feel as if you were right in Samoa with him You are living In his spotless spot-less little box of a house called Vail ma which means five rivers and so reminds you that It Is within sound of flowing streams There from tho broad veranda and the house Is almost al-most half veranda you can lool straight up on one sldo at the wooded wood-ed Vaea mountain and on the other side down COO feet before you gleams tho sea filling the end of two vales of forest The house Is built In a clearing In tho jungle The trees about It are twice as tall as tho house the birds about It are always talking or singing and here and there among the trees echoes the ringing sleigh bells of the tree toad |