With readings from his essays and letters.
by John Franklin Genung
Front Cover/Spine:
With readings from his essays and letters.
by John Franklin Genung
Front Cover/Spine:
This is a very lovely little book. It was published in 1901 by Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, New York. The book measures 5 1/8 inches by 7 5/8 inches and contains 44 pages. The red cloth cover has lovely gilt detailing on the front and down the spine. The cover shows signs of light soiling. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages are printed on good quality paper and show no signs of rips or foxing. The top edges of the pages are gilt. The book contains a little slip of paper upon which was written a gift inscription. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this delightful 101 year old volume is very good.
Excerpt:
The first impression this makes upon us is that of simplifying things. It bids come out of the heat and the worry, and let ourselves enjoy. “We are in such hast,” he says in his essay on Walking Tours, “to be doing, to be writing, to be gathering gear, to make our voice audible a moment in the derisive silence of eternity, that we forget that one thing, of which these are but the parts—namely, to live. We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. And now you are to ask yourself if, when all is done, you would not have been better to sit by the fire at home, and be happy thinking. To sit still and contemplate,-- to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where and what you are—is not this to know both wisdom and virtue, and to dwell with happiness? After all, it is not hey who carry flags, but they who look upon it from a private chamber, who have the fun of the procession.”
That life is a thing to be lived, not brooded over; that the net result of it, as its problems are met, should be joy and confidence not introspection and fear;--this is the medicine that Stevenson would apply to the spiritual fatigue of his time. For a man so to do is to be master of himself and his station and his fate; it is venturing to take the beauty and the promise of the present as true and hiding no treachery for the time or eternity to come…
End excerpt – these precepts are even more true today with all our added distractions.
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