Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 / 2008-06-05 00:00:00

EBOOK, THE BLACK ARROW ***


Transcribed from the 1899 Charles Scribner's Sons edition by David
Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk


THE BLACK ARROW--A TALE OF THE TWO ROSES


Critic on the Hearth

No one but myself knows what I have suffered, nor what my books
have gained, by your unsleeping watchfulness and admirable
pertinacity. And now here is a volume that goes into the world and
lacks your imprimatur: a strange thing in our joint lives; and the
reason of it stranger still! I have watched with interest, with
pain, and at length with amusement, your unavailing attempts to
peruse The Black Arrow; and I think I should lack humour indeed, if
I let the occasion slip and did not place your name in the fly-leaf
of the only book of mine that you have never read--and never will
read.
That others may display more constancy is still my hope. The tale
was written years ago for a particular audience and (I may say) in
rivalry with a particular author; I think I should do well to name
him, Mr.
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