...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books b... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...ility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by R... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...usion of forces into the illimitable,” and the visionary develop- ment of “wasted labour” in the sea, and the winds, and the clouds. No character was ... ...emony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary came of a superstitious family, so that she perhaps i... ...dly smiling, or the smile was not broad enough to be convincing; he had no waste lands nor kitchen-midden in his nature, but was all improved and shar...

...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 received there in the very best society, and un...

...MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Lo... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...ility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Lou... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ...n morality . The ventripotent mulatto, the great cater, worker, earner and waster, the man of much and witty laughter, the man of the great heart and ... ...rly in one dignified speech of the triumphant Colbert. But in Fouquet, the waster, the lover of good cheer and wit and art, the swift transactor of mu...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...