Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . he passed in Latin, Ethical and Meta-physical Philosophy, Mathematics, French, and of us had a degree in Law, therefore we both hadto pass examinations in Civil Law, Scots Law, ScotsConveyancing, Constitutional Law and ConstitutionalHistory, and Medical Jurisprudence. Second : payment of about £350, in fees, stamp-duty,etc. Of this sum a large part goes to the support of theAdvocates Library, with the valuable privilege of borrow-ing twenty books at a time. That Library, along withthe British Museum,
Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . he passed in Latin, Ethical and Meta-physical Philosophy, Mathematics, French, and of us had a degree in Law, therefore we both hadto pass examinations in Civil Law, Scots Law, ScotsConveyancing, Constitutional Law and ConstitutionalHistory, and Medical Jurisprudence. Second : payment of about £350, in fees, stamp-duty,etc. Of this sum a large part goes to the support of theAdvocates Library, with the valuable privilege of borrow-ing twenty books at a time. That Library, along withthe British Museum, the Bodleian at Oxford, the Cam-bridge University Library, the Library of Trinity College,Dublin, and, under certain conditions, the National Libraryof Wales, has the right to claim a copy of every book,magazine, and piece of music not privately printed. Butthe only two of these libraries which allow borrowing arethe Cambridge University Library and the AdvocatesLibrary. The lists show that Stevenson borrowed in 1878a large number of books relating to the Cevennes, in con-. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 37
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