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Show Stevenson's Kindly Criticism. It takes a stylist to criticize a stylist, styl-ist, and was the thing ever done more gracefully than by Robert Louis Stevenson Ste-venson in a letter to Henry James? "May I beg you, the next time 'Roderick 'Rod-erick Hudson' is printed off, to go over the sheets of the last few chapters and strike out 'immense' and 'tremendous'? You have simply dropped them there like your pocket-handkerch.ef all you have to do is to pick them up and pouch them, and your room what do I say? your cathedral! will bo swept and garnished. I am. dear sir, your delighted reader, R. L. .3." |