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Returning to India, the young Kipling, as he rhymed, "sold his heart to the old Black Art we call the daily press." To his last hour he remained the direct, incisive, fact-hunting and fact-recording journalist, whether in prose, poetry, verse or doggerel. He was estimated to have died...
Departmental Ditties were dashed off in India and printed by Cub Reporter Kipling himself in spare moments, then sold by postcard solicitation to Pukka Sahibs with an ease which made Salesman Kipling scoff contemptuously in later years when fashionable publishers tried to cry into his ale about the "risks" they...
Meanwhile famed and lionized Mr. Kipling had married very simply the sister of a literary friend. She was of Vermont, and her name was Caroline Starr Balestier. In Vermont, ignoring the advice of well-wishers who desired them to build "an ordinary mortgageable house" they erected what is still the...
In 1899, Rudyard Kipling briefly revisited New York and nearly died there of pneumonia, both Kaiser Wilhelm II and Queen Victoria asking to be kept informed. His more spiteful enemies said that during this illness "the writer died although the man recovered." One critic yearned publicly for the time "when...
Even before his Sussex retirement Rudyard Kipling rebuked his Britannia: