Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir

Robert F. Murray, by Robert F. Murray
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Title: Robert F. Murray his poems with a memoir by Andrew Lang
Author: Robert F. Murray Editor: Andrew Lang Release Date: July 4, 2007 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1333]
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Transcribed from the 1894 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
(AUTHOR OF THE SCARLET GOWN) HIS POEMS: WITH MEMOIR
BY
ROBERT F. MURRAY
ANDREW LANG
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16TH STREET
1894 Edinburgh: T. AND A. C ONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty
THE VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO
J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN, ESQ.
MOST INDULGENT OF MASTERS AND KINDEST OF FRIENDS
R. F. MURRAY—1863-1893
Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of them, fails and, perhaps, faints by the way. Mr. R. F. Murray, the author of The Scarlet Gown, was among those who do not attain success, in spite of qualities which seem destined to ...