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TIME'S Sept. 7 review of Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best leaves unclear the reason why the Indian member of a polo team visiting the officers of another regiment (in The Man Who Was) ". . . could not, of course, eat with the mess." This might lead...
The same situation is touched upon in Kipling's poem The Mother-Lodge, where the membership, in addition to Protestant Anglo-Indians, a Jew and a Catholic, included a Hindu, a Mohammedan and a Sikh, so "we dursn't give no banquits / Lest a Brother's caste...
... Tell your reviewer to check back, and I'll bet a complete set of Kipling against a 3? stamp he'll find it was the Ressaldar's prejudices - not those of the mess-that prevented their eating together.
... In The Man Who Was Kipling wrote: ". . . There entered a native officer who had played for the Lushkar team. He could not, of course, eat with the alien . . ." His own choice; not that of his hosts. His religion would not have permitted him to eat the alien's food...
Are Kipling's "color" and energies enough to make him "our greatest [short] story writer"? Maugham admits that "the short story is not a form of fiction in which the English have on the whole excelled"-which is a way of saying that Kipling has not had much competition...