Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial

nd human nature. As he had told his mother: he did not care about finding wh

spell of editing one; of one of these he has given a racy account. Very soon after his call to the Bar articles and essays from his pen began to appear in Macmillan's, and later, more regularly in the Cornhill. Careful readers soon began to note here the presence of a new force. He had gone on the Inland Voyage and an account of

the years which followed were, despite the delicacy which showed itself, very busy years. He produced volume on volume. He had writte

a. Then a sea-trip to America was recommended and undertaken. Unfortunately, he got worse there, his original cause of trouble was complicated with others, and the medical treatment giv

is, amid obstacles and drawbacks, and even ill-health, where passive and active may balance and give effect to each other. Stevenson was by native instinct and temperament a rover-a lover of adventure, of strange by-ways, errant tracts (as seen in his Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey t

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f an invalid's days. Instead of remaining in our climate, it might be, to lie listless and helpless half the day, with no companion but his own thoughts and fancies (not always so pleasant either, if, like Frankenstein's monster, or, better still like the imp in the bottle in the Arabian Nights, you cannot, once for all liberate them, and set them adrift on their own charges to v