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...If their value were in any respect such as
we have reason to expect from the man's character, this would
be a loss not easy to exaggerate. It is still wonderful to
the Japanese how far he contrived to push these explorations;
a cultured gentleman of that land and period would leave a
complimentary poem wherever he had been hospitably
entertained; and a friend of Mr. Masaki, who was likewise a
great wanderer, has found such traces of Yoshida's passage in
very remote regions of Japan.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. 
but Yoshida considered
otherwise, and he studied the miseries of his fellow-
countrymen with as much attention and research as though he
had been going to write a book instead of merely to propose a
remedy. To a man of his intensity and singleness, there is
no question but that this survey was melancholy in the
extreme. His dissatisfaction is proved by the eagerness with
which he threw himself into the cause of reform; and what
would have discouraged another braced Yoshida for his...
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Source: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Yoshida-Torajiro, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, p. 175 . ·
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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13 1850 - December 3 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov and others. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version
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