. Stevensoniana; an anecdotal life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited from the writings of Barrie [and others]. y he has rendered those sublimeold hymns, in which we find the doctrine of the pre-existence ofthe soul so glorified in Wordsworths Intimations of Im-mortality, and with which the heavenly-minded Leightonrefreshed himself, and eight of which were translated byColeridge into English anacreontics, before that strange andmournful prodigy had reached his fifteenth year. From an appreciation of R. L. S. published in theQuarterly Review, April 1895 • For his pedigree,
. Stevensoniana; an anecdotal life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited from the writings of Barrie [and others]. y he has rendered those sublimeold hymns, in which we find the doctrine of the pre-existence ofthe soul so glorified in Wordsworths Intimations of Im-mortality, and with which the heavenly-minded Leightonrefreshed himself, and eight of which were translated byColeridge into English anacreontics, before that strange andmournful prodigy had reached his fifteenth year. From an appreciation of R. L. S. published in theQuarterly Review, April 1895 • For his pedigree, it was, in the best Scottish sense, be mentioned in Gibbons Decline and Fall, says Thackeray,is like having your name written on the fagade of St. Petersat Rome. It is hardly less to have had a grand-Thomas father whose name stands in one of Scotts prefaces, cvenson s j^q^c espcciallv when the book thus introduced isliterary , ^r-, r>- ... taatg 1 he Firate, and secret ambition pricks us on till we rival or outdo that ill-written yet moving romance of the sea-rover, with a certain Treasure Island of our •AOC£?A > oa H73 o o O
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