Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 vols., Graham Balfour.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Isobel Strong.
Memories and Portraits, Robert Louis Stevenson.
Friends on the Shelf, Bradford Torrey.
"Personal Recollections," Edmund Gosse, Century Magazine, 50:447.
"Character Sketch," Atlantic Monthly, 89:89-99.
"The Real Stevenson," Atlantic Monthly, 85:702-5.
A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, W.F. Prideaux.
CRITICISMS
Fundamentally Stevenson's style is marked by a conscious aim to entertain. His engaging humor, free of all affectation, sentimentality, and exaggeration, is spontaneous and natural. His most original writing is The Child's Garden of Verses. His touch is light and his thought is clear and lucid. Across the Plains is written in his most straightforward and natural style.