Familiar Studies Of Men And Books

Of the nine essays collected in this volume, seven had appeared in the '' Cornhill Magazine. '' The whole set range in date from 1874 to 1881, and thus belong to the period of Stevenson''s life during which the papers in Virginibus Puerisque were written. The '' familiar studies '' are Victor Hugo''s Romances, Some Aspects Of Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Yoshido Torajiro, Franç...