Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROBERT Louis STEVENSON (196 pp.)-David Daiches-New Directions...
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, which was first published in book form in 1883, is one of the western world's most popular books. But the high, old tottering voice of literary criticism has either ignored it or rated it as the literary equivalent of scooters and bubble gum. Now, Cornell Lecturer David Daiches (Poetry in the Modern World, The Novel in the Modern World), like Stevenson an Edinburgh expatriate, has made an attempt to increase his countryman's stature with a careful, interesting, but rather timid analysis of Stevenson's works...
...Stevenson-Douglas ointment was that each man would have preferred the other's spot. But if Boss Arvey had tried to send Economist Douglas to Springfield, every patronage-minded man in the ranks would have howled rebellion...
...Stevenson, who has never campaigned for office, planned no slam-bang fight. He would work hard, but quietly. Most of the fireworks would come from Douglas. He announced that, as one ex-marine dealing with another, he hoped to blast Curly Brooks "in every county, every town and before every factory gate" in Illinois...
Married. Thomas J.Herbert, 53, round-faced, silver-haired governor of Ohio; and Mildred Helen Stevenson, 40, his doctor's secretary; each for the second time; in Indianapolis...