_Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. He
was graduated at Cambridge and studied law, which he abandoned for
literature. In 1889 he settled in Samoa, where he died in 1894. He
is the author of numerous essays, a delightful volume of poems called
"A Child's Garden of Verses," and many stories. Stevenson's books
include: "Treasure Island"; "Kidnapped" and its sequel, "David
Balfour"; "The Black Arrow"; "Prince Otto"; "The Silverado
Squatters"; "New Arabian Nights"; "Island Nights' Entertainments";
"The Master of Ballantrae"; "An Inland Voyage"; "Travels with a
Donkey," and "The Ebb-Tide."_
_"Thrawn Janet" appeared in "The Merry Men and Other Tales."_