Author: Robert Louis Stevenson / Year: 1850-1894 / Genre: Christmas This small booklet written by Robert Louis Stevenson brings both prose and poetry as he speaks of Christmas, the thoughts of Christ, and this wisdom: "To be honest, to be kind -- too earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole family happier for his presence, the renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation.