...Here, in a somewhat abbreviated form, is the often-told story of his self-imposed apprenticeship : All through my boyhood and youth I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket...

...thing is possible) the way in which he got his style. "All through my boyhood and youth," says he, "I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler, and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write." He traces with gusto, and doubtless...

...native city, attending different schools as well as its University. Of his boyhood and youth he says : " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket,...

...may be permitted to quote once more a now somewhat hackneyed passage from Robert Louis Stevenson : "All through my boyhood and youth I was known and...pointed out for the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket,...

...have found pearls here; and have in this place found the words of life." IV- A COLLEGE MAGAZINE A_L through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket,...

...have found pearls here ; and have in this place found the words of life." IV- A COLLEGE MAGAZINE AL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket,...

...have found pearls here ; and have in this place found the words of life." IV- A COLLEGE MAGAZINE AL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket,...

...in a most interesting and personal way. " All through my boyhood and youth," Stevenson has said, " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write." He gives a pretty picture of those...

...which I was extreamly ambitious." 1 . " All through my boyhood and youth," writes Mr. Stevenson, "II was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket,...

...filial support, Stevenson's own confession assures us. "All through my boyhood and youth," he writes, " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler " ; and this was highly probable, for his industry was by no means the sort to be recognised in scholastic...