Record Number: 22204
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Lang�s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: Apr 1876
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: LONDON
specific address: Savile Club
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Uncommitted
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:French Peasant Songs.
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsMay 1876
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:22204
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:173
Additional Comments:
Letter 434, To his Mother, [Late April 1876], Savile Club, London. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. In the foregoing, the material in square brackets has been added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 173, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22204, accessed: 20 February 2026
Additional Comments:
The Editors� Note 2 to Letter 434 reads: �The May issue of "Cornhill" contains �Forest Notes� [RLS�s essay], Stephen�s �Hours in a Library, No. XII. − Macaulay�, and Lang�s �French Peasant Songs�. Lang�s letter can be dated Thursday 27 April.� Neither the Editors� Note nor RLS�s mention indicates what form the Lang entry took. Did the number contain some actual poems by or translated by Lang or a review of them? Lang�s "Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with other poems" had been published in London by Longmans & Co. in 1872. The meaning of �neatly enough ticked off� is not clear, but if it was Lang who found the number �most enjoyable� the drift would seem to be that Lang�s poems were satisfactorily dealt with, either as they were presented or in a review of them.
