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Other cartoonists concurrently represented Mr. Rudyard Kipling as a testy little man pounding a big bass drum with a broken stick; as a nasty little boy making faces at the lady who has just given him a piece of pie; as a nasty little boy embarrassing his parents by vulgar...
"A list of the popular English writers of the day would show more college men than non-collegians," declared Mr. Ellsworth, "but among the latter are many whose books we like: Arnold Bennett, Gilbert Chesterton, William Black, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard, John Masefield, George More, Eden Phillotts, Israel Zangwell, and...
First, his uncle, a hawklike French general, wedded him to the glorious cause of carving an African empire for La Patrie, with words that made Kipling's "Recessional" sound like a nursery rhyme. Then he was sent to a cavalry camp as a corporal, to fortify his stomach by...
BRAWNYMAN - James Stevens - Knopf ($2.50). The satisfying quality of this autobiogaphical chunk of Americana is that calm matter-of-factness which characterized the same author's chronicle of the great logger, Paul Bunyan. "Appanoose Jimmie" Stevens (changed to Turner in these pages), aged about 35, now lives with his...
Startled Tribune readers scanned a two-column-wide editorial two columns long, which read in part: "Rudyard Kipling is dead. The herald of the right and might of empire lies silent amid the weald and the marsh and the down country of Sussex. England has lost the recorder of the...