Virginibus Puerisque (1881) 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 ("Walking Tours" and "Virginibus Puerisque" [1876]; "On Falling in Love" and "Apology for Idlers" [1877]; "Crabbed Age and Youth", "Aes Triplex", "English Admirals" and "Child's Play" [1878]; "Truth of Intercourse" [1879]) as well as essays printed inMacmillan's ("Ordered South" [1874]) and London ("A Plea for Gas Lamps", "Pan's Pipes" and "El Dorado" [1878]), and the previously unpublished "Some Portraits by Raeburn" and the second part of "Virginibus Puerisque".
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