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Rudyard Kipling acknowledged Seton's influence on his Jungle Books. Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known became a lucrative best-seller in 1898, the model for scores of animal stories. Seton claimed that his stories, unlike such tales as Reynard the Fox, gave "in fiction form the...
U. S. readers have long ago forgotten or decided to ignore Kipling's political creed for the sake of his storytelling, his motto-memorable verse: Mr. Shanks sternly reminds them that they had better not. Whether or not Kipling was a profound thinker, he was an effective preacher, and...
Kipling despised and hated democracy in all its forms. "Democracy," says Mr. Shanks, "meant to him simply a system under which incompetent people strove to take work out of the hands of people competent to do it." Kipling apparently imbibed this conviction with his mother's milk, and it...
Against such blunders of taste and knowledge (Mr. Shanks's prime example: "When an American knows the innermost meaning of 'Don't press, slow back and keep your eye on'the ball,' he is, for practical purposes, denationalized")-against Kipling's asinine omniscience, bouncing...
Mr. Shanks is not very convincing when he argues that Kipling's later years were his best, or that Kipling is altogether the great writer-or quite the sort of great writer-Mr. Shanks tries to make him out. Kipling's greatest legacy to letters Mr. Shanks dismisses...