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Within are stories about Coolidge, Carnegie, John Singer Sargent, Roosevelt, Mrs. Ogden Reid; a facsimile manuscript of Kipling's "If"; snatches from famous biographies; answers to questions about how to get a job and succeed in it by Ford, Joseph C. Grew, Ethel Barrymore.
*Rudyard Kipling is said to be the only high grade poet alive whose poetry royalties alone would keep him warmly clothed, well fed, adequately amused.
As a poet, Alfred Noyes is credited with much studious innovation in metre and verse forms. But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne...
Famed Private Terence Mulvaney, central character in Rudyard Kipling's Soldiers Three stories, used to carry around with him a picture of himself in a Corporal's uniform, and remark sadly: "I was a Corporal once, but I was rejuced."
RED PANTS-John W. Thomason Jr.-Scribner's ($2.50). A hurried Kipling, a carelessly capable War correspondent, Artist-Author-Captain Thomason writes about marines and soldiers, sailors and adventurers on the hot coasts of Cuba and in the lively fields of France. Exhibiting the scattered but emphatic vigor of...