Virginibus Puerisque was the first collection of Stevenson's essays. Containing what would have been regarded as personal essays in the tradition of Lamb and Hazlitt, the volume brought together essays previously published in the prestigious Cornhill Magazine as well as essays printed in Macmillan's and London, and the previously unpublished "Some Portraits by Raeburn" and the second part of "Virginibus Puerisque". The essays promote a spirit of playfulness in defiance of both the hardships of human life and the restrictions imposed by bourgeois Philistinism.
- ISBN10 1406830402
- ISBN13 9781406830408
- Publish Date 27 September 2006 (first published December 1948)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Echo Library
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 92
- Language English