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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...oured with recent prejudice; and it is quite another business to put these writings coldly forth again in a bound volume. We are most of us attached t... ..., from beginning to end, under the disadvantages inherent in this style of writing. Of these disadvantages a word must here be said. The writer of sho... ... that condensation logical and striking. For the only justification of his writing at all is that he shall present a brief, reasoned, and memorable vi... ...es, “that a soul which has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul such an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressi... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu... ...rumpet, it is not wonderful if we retire with pleasure into old books, and listen to authors who speak small and clear, as if in a private conversatio...