Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers/Advert
By the same Author.
"Mr. Stevenson's writing is as elegant as ever, but it is more natural. . . . It is remarkable that on so slight a thread so many jewels of thought and fancy can be hung."—Saturday Review.
"The new volume of travel with which he now favours us has the self-same happy ring, the self-same light and graceful touch."—Grant Allen, in the Fortnightly Review.
"Contains passages of feeling, humour, insight, description, expressed with fluency and finish in the best English prose."—Athenæum.
"Robert Louis Stevenson is, in his own way, one of the most perfect writers living—one of the few who may yet do something that will become classical. . . . Full of delicate entertainment."—P. G. Hamerton, in the Academy.
"The narrator will delight any reader who can enter sufficiently into the author's mood to enjoy the half-humorous, half-pathetic moralizings which give a charm to these pages."—Spectator.