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SOMETHING OF MYSELF-Rudyard Kipling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).
Rudyard Kipling lies a-mouldering in his grave, but last week his words were again on the march. Crowds gathered, as always, to watch the parade go by, to stiffen with small-boy excitement at the drums and tramplings of the military band. Kipling's last parade petered out...
For 32?, Manhattanites had already read in the New York Times a condensed version of his autobiography, run in 16 installments. The newspaper version omitted many a literary anecdote, many a bludgeoning blow against Americans and such "lesser breeds without the Law." And much was omitted from the book; eclectic...
Born in India (1865), where his father was director of the Bombay Art School, little Rudyard was sent "home" to be educated. For nearly six unhappy, browbeaten years of his childhood he boarded with the family of a retired naval officer. Every year he escaped for a month into the...
The "seven years hard" that Kipling worked as a journalist in India gave him all his training, most of his material, laid the foundations of a success that would resound in any day. He was 50% of his paper's white staff, and since his married chief dined at...