Identifier: journeysthroughb01sylv (find matches)
Title: Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: Chicago : Bellows-Reeve
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. Stevensons father was a noted engineer, whoplanned and built lighthouses, and he intended thathis son should be an engineer and build lighthouses,too; but young Robert Louis decided that he wasnot fitted for that work, and studied to be a lawyer.He knew all the time that he liked to write betterthan to do anything else, but it never occurred tohim that he could actually give up his life to thatand make his living by it. However, about 1877 or1878, he took two trips—one a canoeing trip in Bel-gium and France, the other a walking trip throughFrance, his only companion being a particularlystubborn donkey; and he wrote about these littlejourneys so delightfully in An Inland Voyage andTravels with a Donkey that all his friends insistedit was a shame for him to do anything but write. In 1879 he had a very curious, if not a very pleas-ant, experience: he crossed to the United States inan emigrant ship, living with the poorest kind ofpeople, and then journeyed across the United States 128
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At TilK Seaside 129 to California in an emigrant train. He wrote veryinteresting books about these journeys, too. In California Stevenson was married, and we areglad to know that in all the journeys whieh he tookfrom that time he had a companion who made himhappy. For Stevenson was an invalid and wasobliged to travel from one place to another, seekingsome spot where he could feel fairly well and strong.He saw many curious places, and finally he settledon one of the Samoan Islands, in the South Seas.It was hard for him to work, but he kept himselfbusy until the very last—until he died, in 1894. Hisgrave is on the peak of a mountain named Vaea,above his home, which he had named Vailima. Stevenson wrote many kinds of things. Some ofhis stories, Treasure Island, Kidnapped and others,are exciting tales of adventure, which any boy mightlike to read, while his essays, with Dr. Jekyll andMr. Hyde, and other stories, are more distinctivelyfor grown people. However, among all his writ-ings th

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