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Robert Louis Stevenson's Unfinished Romance

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STEVENSON'S ESTIMATE OF THE STORY AS QUOTED IN MRS. STRONG'S DIARY:

"The story unfolds itself before me to the least detail. There is nothing left in doubt. I never felt so before in anything I ever wrote. It will be my best work. I feel myself so sure in every word.

"Surely no son of Scotland has died, leaving with his last breath a worthier tribute to the land he loved."-SIDNEY COLVIN.

In no case of an unfinished story has an author left so full a forecast of his intention. Mr. Stevenson had outlined to his amanuensis, Mrs. Strong, the plot of what remained unwritten, and by her aid an editorial note of nearly twenty pages gives it so fully that the reader is left in no doubt of the result or of the fate of any of the characters. It is issued in attractive form, 12m0, $1.50.

POEMS AND BALLADS. BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 12m0, $1.50.

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