Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-20
NEW BOOKS
AT RANDOM
THE TRUE STEVENSON: A Study
In Clarification. George 3. Hellman.
Little, Brown q Co.
III q a Z
1. CT M.

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in Clariacation. George 8. Hellman.
Little. Brown q Co.
It might have been but yesterday.
90 fresh IL II In mind, that morning
when Robert Louis Stevenson made
entrance into the gchOolroonn. A gay
and gellant figure, rousing instantly
from their deep torpors thousands OF
students who, under long and labo-
rious contacts with dead.and-gone
writer's OF literature, were deep IN
sleeping sickness Of dull indifference
or sullen distaste. Al moment OF
pause on the threshold, and there
swept into the schoolroonn that efrl-
bodied spirit Of far wanderings IN rree
places, Of laughter and courage ana
adventure itself. Toward all Of these
the heart Of youth turns as plants
face toward the sun. Forgotten IN
stantly were the old miseries OF Anglo
Saxon and Norman, of Early Engnsn
and its later development--very splen-
did, no doubt. but very remote, very
unconcerned with live and tmportu-
nate present Thousands turned as
one toward this Joyous soJourner In q
bright and immediate world. AND
Robert Louis Stevenson became the
vogue in education itself. An event
this which blessed both him who gave
and the multitude that received.
The time, you see, had at last ar.
rived when even the most timid ana
reluctant leaders In education real
ICED that tradition and formahsm
must needs yield little here ana
there, else education would De as
hopelessly behind the big and virile
"a" o ~ a.. " "a t.,,a s,slrIa is behind
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Honr.rn,,s ga Iaa1Iy thin@
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caiisncias Rohert Io,,is Stevenson
WITH ofsic,al : nnravaI beca me an ant.
standinc, Iifararv instr,Ictor. IF vo,,fh
little chiIdren chanfed from the
"Child,s Garden Of Verse" Lusty
iand' over and over. ouite grownlIn
fhs essays and taIes IN an endowment
that rresfer writer's. bl,t more remote
once had failed to arouse
Not q small mart Of the success of
upon his free admission into the
guarded domain of education with its
multitude OF students. Not q little
OF the quickening Of education itself
rests upon that which Stevenson,s
entrances into the echooIroorn symbol.
fzes-alpon its acceptance az the ac.
tual. moving. irnrnediafa life that is
more and more making iIeadWay IN its
calculations and achieyemenfs.
Beyond school life the love for
Stevenson lasted and grew. Always
the life Of his spirit passed into the
reader. Always the lure of his words
I !.
unease came at the realization That
cartain thInes nevsr ala hannen n
this mans Writings-thinCs that are
- distinctly 4 MARI az life that their
omission became troublesome. One
day q voice said. .HThe man isn't All
here. Here n but 4, half.nan. com.
ine mt from ffe a,,Yn of these shining
worda.n An lInhaDuy discovery. Ia
~ s,,re. tIaf Far a time clo,,ded the
aid INV in fhis hl,ovant and inspirinr
adventurer in 90 MANY acids.
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Then there appeared the study Of
stevenson hy frank Gwinnerton. The
comes out IN the fiatfooted statement
that stevenson - seconu-raIe
writer. the evidence IN suppoI q
such conclusion pIles nlsn AIou ~
Steyensons pre4cc1pa..On VII n. - e.
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,aattars which rs has to express. Not
the second.rate writer, 1t turns out
Rather one dealing with only skin
Aesn theme. II q the mailman who