R. L. Stevenson

by Frank Swinnerton

R. L. STEVENSON

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME:

J. M. SYNGE
By P. P. Howe
HENRY JAMES
By Ford Madox Hueffer
HENRIK IBSEN
By R. Ellis Roberts
THOMAS HARDY
By Lascelles Abercrombie
BERNARD SHAW
By P. P. Howe
WALTER PATER
By Edward Thomas
WALT WHITMAN
By Basil de Sélincourt
SAMUEL BUTLER
By Gilbert Cannan
A. C. SWINBURNE
By Edward Thomas
GEORGE GISSING
By Frank Swinnerton
RUDYARD KIPLING
By Cyril Falls
WILLIAM MORRIS
By John Drinkwater
ROBERT BRIDGES
By F. E. Brett Young
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
By Una Taylor

Yours truly
Robert Louis Stevenson

R. L. STEVENSON

A CRITICAL STUDY
BY
FRANK SWINNERTON

LONDON
MARTIN SECKER
NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET
ADELPHI
MCMXIV

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The Sargent portrait of Stevenson which forms the frontispiece to this volume has been included by permission of Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, to whom the publisher wishes to express his acknowledgments and thanks.

TO
DOUGLAS GRAY
IN MALICE