David Christie Murray

Among the chapters in this 1897 collection are "First, the Critics, and then a Word on Dickens," "Robert Louis Stevenson," "Living Masters-Rudyard Kipling," "Dr. Macdonald and Mr. J. M. Barrie," and "The Americans." Murray feared he would be ridiculed for the book, but instead gained literary friends (and praise) as a result of its publication.