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Excerpt from Adventures Among Books OF the Essays in this volume Adventures among Books, and Rab's Friend, appeared in Scribner's Magazine; and Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson (to the best of the author's memory) in The North American Review. The Essay on Smollett was in the anglo-saxon, which has ceased to appear; and the shorter papers, such as The Confessions of Saint Augustine, in a periodical styled Wit and Wisdom. For The Poems of William Morris the author has to thank the Editor of Longman's Magazine; for The Boy, and Mrs. Radcliffe's Novels, the Proprietors of The Cornhill Magazine for Enchanted Cigarettes, and possibly for The Supernatural in Fiction, the Proprietors of The Idler. The portrait, after Sir William Richmond, r.a., was done about the time when most of the Essays were written - and that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.