The evening world., 1889-11-04
MASTER OF BALLANTRAE."
STEvHNsON's WONDERFUL ROMANCE TO
BR PRINTED IN "TRE WORLD"
TIE GREATEST STORY oH MODERN TnrYa'

The World will begin on Tuesday morning
the publication Of Robert Louis StevenSoh's
latest and greatest novel. The MHrter Of Bal
l~Antrne." The instruments will appear daily aud
will occupy a full page In each issue. The story
will be moro profunely illustrated than ever waa
. story before in any newspaper. The WoRLDe
corps OF artists has been reinforced by numerous
talented pencils for this particular purpose.
The Master OF BallAntrAe has already been
printed by the enterpripinR scribners in their
monthly magazine. 1t has also been isauedby
that house in book form. II has, therefore, been
read already By thousands. THE WORLD proposes
to give IL to the millions. 1t 10 q masterpiece
that belongs to the great public. for II ranks
In literary merit and intensity Of interest
with the best work even Of the great Dickensa
Taking. as IL has instantly done, 20 loftyp
place in the eStim alton OF the world Of letters,
The Master of BallAntrae" has become
- news in the best senhe OF that word, and a.
news THE WORLD countsi II its duty to FUR.
niEh il. The delighted Thousands who have
read il before will gladly read ii a~gain-it will
bear many rereadings-and hundreds Of thou
pands will find in its publication In these col
umns ali opportunity they might otherwise
have missed.
In anticipation Of this effort Of newspaper en-
terprise The WORLD wants In q brief review 10
put in touch with the novelist such OF itH readers
rs may not be conversant with his history, ap-
pearance, methods Of living and Of working;
with the previous fruits of his genius and the
motives which inspire them; with the great
army OF characters whom he has in his glowing
pages endowed with q life long to outlasthls
own.
STEVENSON THE MASTER NOVELIST.
Robert Louis Stevenson, unquestionAbly tho
most gifted prose writer of the day. was son Of
Thomas Stevenson, engineer 70 the Board Of
Northern Lights, under the British Govern.
ment. He was born In Edinburgh in 1862. and
holds htubbornly to the proposition that "Thc
happiest lot on earth 10 to be- born Q Scotch
man."
The knack Of writing. the passion for obser-
walton, the genius OF creation, drove him out Of
the law, where practical Scotch parents had put
him. He was q scholar, q teacher. He began
to write. and the habit grew. His chosen com.
radeShips were with men Of letters in Great Brit
ain and on the Continent, where he Hiniulta-
neously lounGed and labored. But the Rtmos-
phere Of Partisan cafes. where B~ohemiAnB. stu
dents. artists, litterateurB conRregAted, with
their blue views Of life, could not VitiGte In
Stevenson's nature the breath Of the Scotch
heather.
There Ia . freshness in all his WritinRs. . love
of nature and Of humanity. II appeals not alone
TO the learned booksters who, with critics Oye.
study the beauties Of his matchless style, or ~
psychologists, measure the truth Of his chsrao-
ter creations. But he has written what the
purer, healthier appetite Of the masses re-
Quired. and II has been sei2ed with avidity.
THE NOVEL OF ACTION.
His novels are novels, rot chemical analyses
Of the commonplace. They are novels Of Incl.
dent and description. They are full Of that
healthfui romance and adventure which lifts the
tired mind above the low round OF common
things. They are bright with the diverse liRhts
Of many countries, whittier the novelist has
wandered. seeking not 1.-THE bubble, tsputA-
ton. but the Trailer bubble. heath.
At first he dealt with Scotland and the Scots.
From his father. who built lighthouses along che
harsh. sounding shores Of the North, he gained
Q knowledge OF North Britain which none has
approached since Walter Scott laid down his
wizard pen. but widening travel has enriched
Steyensons pages. There 10 . marvellous de-
scriptiye power, . ripeninR knowledge Of men,
. broader humanity, still tempered by the early
bias OF the CovenAnters among whom
he was reared and the youtkfulneSS
which knows yet no touch Of age. II
is . youthfulnesS which has survived
the wear and worry of ill-heGlth and the youth.
dispelling force Of contact with . world prSmA-
turely old. Its clear echo is ~ plain In tho pages
Of The Master Of BallAntrAe" ~ IL was when.
in answer to the coaxinR Of q little boy, he fell to
and penned that wonderful strong story Of
Treasure Island"
He has won laurels in the roles Of poet and e.
sayist. Unpopular at first in America, he made
his way into literary fame and favor BY essays
in n well-known American magazine. in winch
his monthly contribution csme to be the leading
and most looked for contribution. But the
author Of kidnapped and ''Ihe Merry Men"
and 'Jekyll and Hyde " 10 . novel writer. His
genius for fiction has attained its high-water
mark IN this. THE Master Of Ballsutrae, 4" to
which The WORLD 10 about to give space ~ the
first novel of the times.
BALLANTRAE THE VILLAIN.
The titulAr character in The Master Of Bal