...ld be your fate.’ ‘Only exchanging half-a-dozen attach‚s in red for one in black, and if I fasted, the wrinkles would come, and never, never go. Has i... ...lte has put their relation- ship on a most satisfactory footing. ‘You’re a blackguard,’ he says to Kurrell, ‘and 48 Under the Deodars I’ve lost any s... ...emned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments. He was a rude man and a terrible. Wherefore the remnant to... ...olubly wedded wife, and that there was no crime under the canopy of heaven blacker than that of bringing shame on the Regiment, which was the best-sho... ...o. The Indian gentleman, for thousands of years past, has resembled Victor Hugo’s noble: ‘Un vrai sire Chatelain Laisse ecrire Le vilain. Sa main dign... ...nters given to them as assistants. “Those carpenters!” said Bishen Singh. “Black apes were more efficient workmates, and as for the Bengali babu-tchic...

... perhaps he was) contentedly practising many other things that to you seem black as hell. Every man is his own judge and mountain-guide through life. ... ...on at Colinton– they called out, ‘They are some of our own.’ ‘They are too blacke ‘ (I.E. numerous), ‘fie! fie! for ground to draw up on,’ cried Walla... ...nce; unless we consider as such a silly Chaldee manuscript in imitation of Blackwood, and a letter of reproof from a divinity student on the impiety o... ... they were written in Latin. He was well acquainted with the title-page of Blackstone’s Commentaries, and Argal (as the gravedigger in Hamlet says) he... ..., in the earlier work, and made it not altogether unwor- thy of its model, Hugo’s Legend of the Ages. But it becomes evident, on the most hasty retros... ... instant the net closes round the pilgrims, ‘the white robe falls from the black man’s body.’ Despair ‘getteth him a grievous crab-tree cudgel’; it wa...

........................................................ 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES .............................................................. ...the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet wider knowledge, not only of a country fo... ...cising myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five rom... ...olly just. R. L. S. 15 Familiar Studies of Men & Books CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES Apres le roman pittoresque mais prosaique de Walter Scott i... ... ideal, vrai mais grand, qui enchassera Walter Scott dans Homere. – Victor Hugo on Quentin Durward. VCITOR HUGO’S ROMANCES occupy an important positio... ... like a fine lady from sleepless- ness and vapours; he would fall into the blackest melanchol- 42 Robert Louis Stevenson ies, and be filled with remo... ...by his dog; and the dog, “scouring in long excursion,” scampered with four black paws across the linen. This brought the two into conversation; when J... ...e than the merest smattering of knowledge; whereas his ac- quaintance with blackguard haunts and industries could only have been acquired by early and... ...nd an enduring and most unmanly resent- ment; Regnier de Montigny, a young blackguard of good 122 Robert Louis Stevenson birth; and Colin de Cayeux, ...

...ontents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN.......