Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Devonshire", had slaved over solemn religious tomes in his invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema's sister-in-law. Preposterous ignorance. And the old gentleman, who 30 years ago wrote sadly of his desuetude, continued: "He (the modern young man) is always playing games or motoring or dancing and gives no time to serious study. I was able...
...Stevenson, once of Princeton, won the quarter-mile for Oxford...
...STEAMER BOOK-Compiled by Edwin Valentine Mitchell-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A snack of Stevenson, a morsel of Melville, a tidbit of Dibdin, a fact or two about navigation and (for convalescence) one or two very short stories by Hawthorne, Daudet and compeers. In meagre fashion and with no lavish excess of ingenuity in arrangement, all tastes are catered to. There is a scientifico-detective story. There are lines from Lord Tennyson...
...Library has put a unique collection of autographed letters of a number of poets and authors on exhibition in the Widener room. Among the letters included are some of Burns, Scott, Stevenson, Swinburne, Thoreau, and Whittier...
...book with all those excellent portraits you use on covers, with a cryptic biographical sketch in TIME's style? You have the finest charcoal portraitists in America in Gordon Stevenson and S. J. Woolf. You have already many biographical sketches of notable subjects. Such a book is necessary to every library. Get the idea? Send me, C. O. D., the first one. MYNATT...