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Someone has said that it would have been better for Kipling's literary reputation if he had died at the time eighteen years ago when he was so near death's door; it is said that there has never been a moment of buoyant humor in his writing since that time, and hence he has been subjected to much criticism. But few people know, Mr. Bangs said, the cause of that change. Rudyard Kipling had a little daughter to whom he was greatly devoted. When he fell ill, he was unconscious for fifteen days, during which time his daughter...
...Leri," though in this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better justified by the dramatic effect. Mr. F. E. Green in a "Mender of Dreams" has worked out a capital situation with good effect of suspense, and has made telling use of his setting. The buoyant and graceful "travel paper" of Arminius "Concerning Watering Places Mostly German," which alluringly conjures up the atmosphere of the Continental Spa, is refreshing after so much that is subdued or gloomy (even Mr. Green's story has a dying mother in the background) and one is grateful...
Stevenson's St. Ives (Scribner) is a most entertaining story of adventure, not as stirring, perhaps, as Treasure Island and some others, yet with enough mishaps and narrow escapes to keep up the interest throughout. The style is that of the hero (who tells his own story) buoyant, sparkling, familiar...
...died in 1888 at the young age of 33, his constitution ruined by over-work and by the disease, which would have made his whole life a tragedy but for his own buoyant nature...
...namely, adaptability. If a man here at Harvard, for instance, lives his life like a rational being; if he learns something from books but more from men; if he disciplines himself to the proper degree and, on the other hand, gives himself sufficient amusement to cultivate the light, buoyant side of his nature, he cannot but come out with the ability to meet men well, to think and to talk clearly, in short, to 'fit in' to any set of conditions-the quality of adaptability...