PAGE On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature 3 The Morality of the Profession of Letters 47 Books which have Influenced Me 75 A Note on Realism 93 My First Book: ‘Treasure Island’ 111 The Genesis of ‘The Master of Ballantrae’ 135 Preface To ‘The Master of Ballantrae’ 145 There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discover…
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