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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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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... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...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... ...gret to find that Mr. Payne and I are not always at one as to the author’s meaning; in such cases I am bound to suppose that he is in the right, altho... ... the tumult of American democracy; what he calls the “Lit- erature of Wo,” meaning the whole tribe of Werther and Byron, could have no action for good... ...n the excitement of great events. They are hardly literature in the formal meaning of the word; he has left his jottings for the most part as he made ...