Lang recalls the books that shaped his boyhood, then turns to friends and favourites: memories of Robert Louis Stevenson, essays on Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poems of William Morris, Smollett, and the Gothic thrills of Mrs. Radcliffe. Shorter papers range over the supernatural in fiction and ‘enchanted cigarettes’.
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