Familiar Studies of Men and Books

1882

Nine essays Stevenson wrote for the magazines and gathered in 1882, on Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Yoshida-Torajiro, Villon, Charles of Orleans, Pepys and John Knox. The preface is a second thought on all nine, in which he takes back several of his own judgments.

Preface by Way of Criticism.
Victor Hugo’s Romances.
Some Aspects of Robert Burns
Walt Whitman.
Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions.
Yoshida-Torajiro
François Villon, Student, Poet, and Housebreaker.
Charles of Orleans.
Samuel Pepys.
John Knox and His Relations to Women.