Show henry villard who abo in his younger days was a journalist and a man of letters winning in the civil war a hiis high hi Is reputation as a correspondent in the field is writing an autobiography for his children exclusively it will be privately printed it is thought t next year robert louis stevenson was a very modest genius in one of the last letters he penned he says 1 I am ain a fictitious article and have long iong known it I 1 do not think it possible to have fewer illusions than I 1 have I 1 sometimes wish I 1 had more but I 1 cannot t te take e myself seriously as an artist the limitations are too obvious there is a sermon in this for several living authors |