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RUDYARD KIPLING-Edward Shanks-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).
A French critic, asked who was really France's greatest poet, answered: "Helas! C'est Victor Hugo." Mr. Shanks sadly admits that no recent English critic would have thought of including Rudyard Kipling among England's great, even tagged with an "Alas!" Mr. Shanks says briskly that...
During last week's air raids, queues before the theatres were as long as those before the entrances to London's air-raid shelters. Memorable moment in the his tory of drab suburban Finsbury Park Empire Theatre came in the course of Springtime for Henry. While sirens wailed...
The moral, blunt as a rifle butt, of Kipling's ballad, is that in peacetime democracies keep their little armies on starvation rations and hard words, and when war comes, wish they hadn't. After every war the U. S. has fought, it has disassembled its fighting machine...
From lands of palm and pine, from a people whose boast it had once been that the sun never set on it, rose a deeper prayer than Kipling's "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet." The prayer of tight-lipped men & women throughout Britain's empire...