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Every true vagabond feels a distinct urge toward the tropics. To sit before a typewriter and attempt to transcribe that urge is to essay the impossible. But nearly all residents of the more temperate zones have their dreams and visions of sunshine and palm-trees and tinkly temple-bells. From...
The past and the present do not mingle gracefully. The present is too red-blooded. And so we see a dismal parody of Kipling, a delectable burlesque of Oscar Wilde, and a really amusing, if somewhat overdone, page of history with undergraduate notations, push a bit of Chaucer and a...
Mrs. Milner remarked that men have the ability to take a book and read three or four hours on a stretch, their only movement being to turn the pages. "No woman can do it," was her comment. "It is a purely masculine trait. Another thing, men like to be let...
Long, long before we reached the camel compound we smelt not All that Mr. Kipling said regarding the festive "Oont" is quite true, but he didn't say half enough; he was writing for publication. Any animal that crunches the tough, green, desert, cactus, which bears hard, white spines two...
In his poem "The Prospector," Kipling has brought forth the romance and thrill connected with the life of "him who entereth into the waste places of the world." It is curious, though natural, how much the same color of feeling attaches itself to pioneers in the fields of thought and...