ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
"To us who read in our comfortable chairs the inimitably smooth-flowing sentences and phrases of perhaps the finest stylist of our language, it seems almost incredible that he practised laboriously and assiduously to develop and perfect thai style," remarked Dr. A. G. Butchers, of Robert Louis Stevenson, when speaking to the last meeting of the Wellington Burns Club.
Dr. Butchers gave a brief outline of Stevenson's life and showed how heav ily the hand of Fate weighed down the scales of suffering foi him But in the face of all obstacles he went stead ily on with his work, tior did he ever allow himself to fall below the best that he could do< It was doubtfuJ. indeed, if any English writer had ever made so intimate an appeal to nis
readers or bound them to himseli so strongly with the ties of personal friendship and love.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 5
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