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Show STEVENSON AT HIS WORK. "David Balfour"' Produced Under Adverse Ad-verse Circumstances. Mr. Robert I.ouls S'venson has told of the circumstances under which certain of her husband's books were written St-enson and his wife were looking oer some recor of trials In the Old Halle court during 1700. Among the papers was one describing the trial of James Stewart for the murder of a man. which Stevenson "read with avidity." He used much of the story in this old court record for " Kidnaped," besides taking out he character of Alan Greek. "David Ba'four." the sequel to "Kidnaped," wj written in Samoa, amid ery "distracting "dis-tracting circumstances." Mrs. Sle-venon Sle-venon sa)s. "Willi the natives on the erge of war and amid tho most kaleidoscopic political changes, un c-.-'nn as to what moment his personal per-sonal liberty might bo n strained, his every lictlon misconstrued and re-fnted re-fnted by tho white Inhabitants of the island, tho oxcltement and fatigue of my husband's dally life might have seemed enough for an) one man to endure without tho additional strain of literary work." |