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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

THE MODERN STUDENT'S LIBRARY PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL
By George Meredith.

THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS.

By William Makepeace Thackeray.
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE.
By Thomas Hardy.

BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
ADAM BEDE.

By George Eliot.

ENGLISH POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH

CENTURY.

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

By Robert Browning.

PAST AND PRESENT.

By Thomas Carlyle.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.

By Jane Austen.

THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN.

By Sir Walter Scott.

THE SCARLET LETTER.

By Nathaniel Hawthorne.

BUNYAN'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.

THE ESSAYS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVEN. SON.

NINETEENTH CENTURY LETTERS.

THE ESSAYS OF ADDISON AND STEELE. Each small 12mo. 75 cents net.

Other volumes in preparation.

ESSAYS BY

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

LAMPSON PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT YALE

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