R. L. STEVENSON
Reading edition
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME:
J. M. SYNGE By P. P. Howe HENRY JAMES By Ford Madox Hueffer HENRIK IBSEN By R. Ellis Roberts THOMAS HARDY By Lascelles Abercrombie BERNARD SHAW By P. P. Howe WALTER PATER By Edward Thomas WALT WHITMAN By Basil de Sélincourt SAMUEL BUTLER By Gilbert Cannan A. C. SWINBURNE By Edward Thomas GEORGE GISSING By Frank Swinnerton RUDYARD KIPLING By Cyril Falls WILLIAM MORRIS By John Drinkwater ROBERT BRIDGES By F. E. Brett Young MAURICE MAETERLINCK By Una Taylor
Yours truly Robert Louis Stevenson
R. L. STEVENSON
A CRITICAL STUDY BY FRANK SWINNERTON
LONDON MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI MCMXIV
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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The Sargent portrait of Stevenson which forms the frontispiece to this volume has been included by permission of Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, to whom the publisher wishes to express his acknowledgments and thanks.
TO DOUGLAS GRAY IN MALICE