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THE LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING (433 pp ) -C. E. Carrington -Doubleday ($5.50).
The sun has set on Rudyard Kipling and his British Empire, but there are those less happy about it than, say, Jawaharlal Nehru and the editors of the Nation. Rudyard Kipling was a lowbrow genius, the classic case of a jingo word juggler whose skill brought out the heaviest sneers...
Cruelest of all was the gibe of G. K. Chesterton, who took the one poem in which Kipling approached beauty, Recessional, a prayer for humility under power, and made of it:
Kipling is the wicked uncle of the modern British mind -the one they don't talk about, the one who went broke going to the wars and who died intestate, without visitors, in a Home. But now the belated floral tributes of highbrow attention have begun to come in...
Boy from India. Rudyard Kipling ("Ruddy" to his friends) was born in Bombay in 1865 and buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in 1936.