Show STUDENT LIFE 106 life on the rugged shores of Scotland In both there is an atmos- phere teeming with the superstitious and uncanny element so characteristic of the people “A Lodging for the Night” was the first of Stevenson’s stories to go into print In it we catch a glimpse of French life among vagabonds and thieves 1 1 is in part a character study contains some telling descriptions and suggestive figures of speech and is told with Stevenson’s characteristic vim and dash Stevenson’s descriptions are artistic in the highest sense of the word and as such cannot be surThose in Old Pacific Capital” are especially good full of imagination and abounding in beautiful figures In his description of the ‘‘Clouds disperse and retreat in broken squadrons to the sea” his waves are likened to immense birds with passed ever-changing-s- ky necks” dashing themselves to pieces on the rocks You can almost feel the salt spray and hear the dull booming of the sea He gives us a picture here and a picture there each one clear and complete then weaves them together in a most delightful “green-curve- d way Stevenson’s simplicity of style is due to his use of simple short sentences and his choice of quaint words and phrases This simplicity is especially noticeable in “The Bottle Imps” and other tales in his “Island Nights Entertainment” These last have also an oriental flavor and biblical turn of sentence as in the following: “He was aware of a man that looked forth upon him” Also in “Kewe’s uncle had grown monstrous rich in the last days’! Quaint phrases like“hum-min- g are pigeons” “within-sides- ” “The numerous throughout fumes of wine departed from his head like mists off a river in morning” is only one of the many figures which abound in this unique tale There is an adaption of word to sound as in the phrase “the click “The sun went of horse’s shoes down into the sea and the night came” suggests the suddeness with which darkness falls in these tropical islands A saving quality in Stevenson’s style is his irrepressible sense of humor You find it cropping out in every variety of his writings y either in way of looking at things as in “A Lodging for the Night” or in the hlimor ous little touches found in “Travels with a donkey” In the latter it is most refreshing in effect happy-go-luck- -- is seldom that he expresses grief or pathos When he does so It |