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STEVENSON[1]

A recent incident has finally convinced us that Stevenson was, as we suspected, a great man. We knew from recent books that we have noticed, from the scorn of 'Ephemera Critica' and Mr George Moore, that Stevenson had the first essential qualification of a great man: that of being misunderstood by his opponents. But from the book which Messrs Chatto & Windus have issued, in the same binding as Stevenson's works, 'Robert Louis Stevenson', by Mr H. Bellyse Baildon, we learn that he

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  1. 'Robert Louis Stevenson : A Life Study in Criticism'. By H. Bellyse Baildon. Chatto & Windus.