...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for an... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...he Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibilit... ...ania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the m... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ... body and soul to the unpatriotic faction in his own country, set out from London with a light heart and a damaged integrity. In the magnificent copy ... ...l perspective, is almost a history of his imprisonment. It gives a view of London with all its spires, the river passing through the old bridge and bu...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...