Stevenson's Inland voyage, and Travels with a donkey . ulu. 1892. Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays. The second part of the volume is a continuation ofMemories and Portraits, with the excellent essays, Fontainebleau, The Lantern-Bearers, and Pulviset Umbra. 1892. The Wrecker. (With Lloyd Osbourn°.) 1893. Island Nights1 Entertainments. Three stories which have the South Seas for a back-ground ; the best of them is The Beach of David Balfour (in England called Catriona). In addition to its interest as a sequel to Kidnapped, xxx Descriptive Bibliography the novel is s
Stevenson's Inland voyage, and Travels with a donkey . ulu. 1892. Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays. The second part of the volume is a continuation ofMemories and Portraits, with the excellent essays, Fontainebleau, The Lantern-Bearers, and Pulviset Umbra. 1892. The Wrecker. (With Lloyd Osbourn°.) 1893. Island Nights1 Entertainments. Three stories which have the South Seas for a back-ground ; the best of them is The Beach of David Balfour (in England called Catriona). In addition to its interest as a sequel to Kidnapped, xxx Descriptive Bibliography the novel is significant as containing Stevensons only-successful women characters, Catriona and Miss Grant. 1894. The Ebb-Tide. (With Lloyd Osbourne.) 1895. Later Vailima Letters. Weir of Hermiston. In the South Seas. Songs of Travel. St. Ives. (Completed by A. T. Quiller-Couch.) The adventures of a French prisoner in England. Stevenson wrote only the first thirty of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends. AN INLAND VOYAGE. Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson From the Bookman, August, 1898. By permission of Dodd, Mead & Company PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am halfafraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is morethan an author can resist, for it is the reward of his the foundation stone is laid, the architect appearswith his plans, and struts for an hour before the public 5eye. So with the writer in his preface: he may have nevera word to say, but he must show himself a moment in theportico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanor. It is best, in such circumstances, to represent a delicateshade of manner between humility and superiority: as if 10the book had been written by some one else, and you hadmerely run over it and inserted what was good. But formy part I have not yet learned the trick to that perfection;I am not yet able to dissemble the warmth of my senti-ments towards a reader; and if I m
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