...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... ... Knox and Burns implies a grasp upon the very deepest strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many... ... many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o t... ...of liberty and largeness of competence. Thus, painting, in which the round outlines of things are thrown on to a flat board, is far more free than scu... ...ooks at it from another point of view – to reproduce a colour, a sound, an outline, a logical argument, a physical action. He can show his readers, be... ... comprehensible perhaps in Paris. It is here that we learn that “laird” in Scotland is the same title as “lord” in England. Here, also, is an account ... ...ent my notes to him to be corrected, this can be no more than an imperfect outline. Y oshida-T orajiro was son to the hereditary military instruc- tor...

...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...