Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work

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Excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work: A Bookman Extra Number, 1913But the parallel is even stronger as regards his dilettantism, the other note in his attractive personality. At first you mistake it for Voltairian diablerz'e, then for neo-gallic heart lessness, then for agnostical weariness of the ¿esh. Is he ever Sincere does he care for anything or anybody? Does he not despise his own puppets and gloat over their miseries are his books mere sleight of hand, and is the showman sneer ing at us dull clowns agape on his benches No, it IS all pure dilettantism, and that of the high Old English breed. With a certain polished reserve not wholly ¿attering. To his rivals, he stands daintily aloof from the rabble who live by tickling the ears of the public-ass. True, he owes it to himself to make no discourteous allusions to the reader's ears, but in a graceful way he allows him to gather that their length. Has not Wholly escaped his notice, nor does the honest fool like him less for his discrimination than for his reticence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.