Stevenson‘s Perfect Virtues, As Exemplified By Leigh Hunt
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ALBERTUS AND ELINORE TAYLOR BREWER CEDAR
RAPIDS IOWA CHRISTMAS NINETEEN TWENTY-TWO
Gentleness and cheerfulness are the perfect virtues.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson was right. There is not a more admirable trait in one‘s character than that of cheerfulness. Combined with that other virtue named by Stevenson, gentleness, and what more is needed to make a companionable and a beloved man.
These two attributes were possessed in an emphatic way both by Stevenson and by Leigh Hunt. That‘s why some of us are so fond of Hunt. That‘s why he is growing in esteem as he is becoming better known to lovers and students of the literature produced in England during the first half of the nineteenth century.
For it is certain that Hunt is coming into his own. First editions of his writings year by year are advancing in price. They are becoming scarce and in some instanc

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