Press enter after choosing selection

The Beauty Of Stevenson's Character

The Beauty Of Stevenson's Character image
Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

It is impossible to deal, however lightly, with the personal qualities of Rotert jcrais Stevenson without dwelling on the extreme beauty of his character. In looking back over the 20 years in which I knew him I feel that, since he was eminently human, I ought to recall his faults, but I protest that I can remernber none. Perhaps the nearest approach to a fault was a certain want of discretion always founded oh a wish to make people understand each other, but not exactly according to wisdom. I tecollect that he once embroiled me for a moment with John Addington Symonds in a manner altogether bloodthirsty and ridiculous, so that we both feil upon him and rended him. This little weakness is really the blackest crime I can lay to his charge. And, on the other side, what courage, what love, what an indomitable spirit, what a melting pity ! He had; none of the sordid errors of the man wh? writes, no sick ambition, no envy of otíiers, no exaggeration of the value of this ephemeral trick of scribbliug. He was eager to h,elp his fellows, ready to take a second place, offended with great difficulty, perfectly appeased by the least show of repentance. Stevenson was the most exquisite English writer of his generation, but those who lived close to him are apt to think less of that than of the fact that he was the most unselfish and the most lovable of human beinsrs.

Article

Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News