Indeholder "Forord af Niels Haislund", "Vandreture", "Knarvorn Alderdom og Ungdommen", "Æs triplex", "Et Forsvar for Lediggængere", "Et Indlæg til Fordel for Gaslygterne", "Noter".

"Forord af Niels Haislund" handler om Robert Louis Stevenson, hans liv og hans litterære værker.
"Vandreture" handler om ???
"Knarvorn Alderdom og Ungdommen" handler om ???
"Æs triplex" handler om ???
"Et Forsvar for Lediggængere" handler om ???
"Et Indlæg til Fordel for Gaslygterne" handler om ???
"Noter" handler om ???

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Jeg tror englændere har et specielt forhold til gaslys. I alt fald er der et hold af George Smileys kolleger, der hedder Lygtetænderne eller Lamplighters på engelsk. De har styr på overvågning og aflytning. ( )

Beautifully written essays, some snarky, some melancholy.

"Even Stevenson, for whom I have the most profound admiration, finds it difficult to carry the reader through a series of such papers, adorned with his original thought and quaint turn of phrase. Yet his "Men and Books" and "Virginibus Puerisque" are high examples of what may be done in spite of the inherent unavoidable difficulty of the task.

But his style! Ah, if Stevenson had only realized how beautiful and nervous was his own natural God-given style he would never have been at pains to acquire another I It is sad to read the much-lauded anecdote of his imitating this author and that, picking up and dropping, in search of the best. The best is always the most natural. When Stevenson becomes a conscious stylist, applauded by many critics, he seems to me like a man who, having most natural curls, will still conceal them under a wig. " --Through the Magic Door, p. 259-260

I wonder what W.A.Lovett thought about this book. There are some pencil annotations within it and some numbers. W.A.Lovett held this book in September 1925 or so it seems from the Ipswich Municipal Secondary School of Boys label inside the front cover.