Google logo commemorates Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th birthday.
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Note: Logo is not on main page today. I looked in the holiday logos where they store old logos and it has not been moved into there yet. Here is a article that has a copy of the logo full size.
TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER
Page after the dedication in Treasure Island:
TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER
If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons,
And buccaneers, and buried gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today:
–So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie!