... The Art of W... ...niver- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, ... ...e sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmo- *First published in the Contemporary Review, April 1885 4 Robert Louis Stevenson nies in ... ...r. But it must not be forgotten that in some languages this element is almost, if not quite, extinct, and that in our own it is probably decay- ing. T... ... on all with the same ungenerous hand; they begin the consideration of all, in young and unprepared minds, in an unworthy spirit; on all, they supply ... ...d wholesome and beautiful elements of our life; he should tell unsparingly of the evil and sorrow of the present, to move us with instances: he should... ...ged to Robinson Crusoe. No doubt the skeleton is con- veyed from Poe. I think little of these, they are trifles and details; and no man can hope to ha... ...ad passed a landmark; I had finished a tale, and written ‘The End’ upon my manuscript, as I had not done since ‘The Pentland Rising,’ when I was a boy... ...adventures of Treasure Island are not yet quite at an end. I had written it up to the map. The map was the chief part of my plot. For instance, I had ...