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India has fascinated many Western writers, but whether they celebrated the white man's burden, like Kipling, or deplored the excesses of imperialism, like E. M. Forster, they were usually outsiders observing from a distance. In recent years, the Indians have been raising novelists of their own, such as...
On Kipling: "I saw no power of reflection, though there was a real gift of happy phrase . . . When he said anything especially good he looked up as if waiting for you to clap your hands."
Face to Face (Huntmgton Hartford; RKO Radio) is a two-part picture of mixed merits that gets its title from Rudyard Kipling's The Ballad of East and West. ("But there is neither 'East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to...
Dickens is dead-and who cares? Dickens was an old-fashioned sentimentalist who roared with laughter at his own comic caricatures and wept buckets over his pathetic children and heroines whiter (and frailer) than the driven snow. But Dickens had gusto. So did Mark Twain; so did Kipling; so did...
In seven years, the center believes it has helped pave the way toward a whole new era of better books for better children. It has saved scores of libraries from buying trash, has saved hundreds of parents from boring their children or scaring them out of their wits. But as...