Robert Louis Stevenson

Songs of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson

Excerpt from Songs of Travel: And Other Verses

The following eolleetion of verses, written at various times and plates, prinezpally after t/ze autbor's final departure from England in 1887, was sent name by bim for publication some montbs before bis deat/z. He bad tried t/zem in several difierent orders and under several dzfi'erent titles, as Songs and Notes of Travel, Postbumous Poems, ete., and in. Tbe end left tneir naming and arrangement to tile present editor, with t/ze suggestion tizal tiley s/zould be added as Book [i]: to future editions of Underwoods. T bis suggestion it is proposed to carry out; but in tbe meantime, for t/ze benefit of tnose possess Underwoods in its original form, it bas been tbaugbt desirable to publisb tbem separately in tbe present volume. T lzey nave already been included in t/ze Edinburgb Edition of the autbor's.

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