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SOMETHING OF MYSELF-Rudyard Kipling-Doubleday, Doran...
...Rudyard Kipling lies a-mouldering in his grave, but last week his words were again on the march. Crowds gathered, as always, to watch the parade go by, to stiffen with small-boy excitement at the drums and tramplings of the military band. Kipling's last parade petered out before the finish, for death had halted it; but there were enough of his veterans in the march-past to give the cheering crowds the old thrill. Even his many enemies watched curiously as the late great Rudyard Kipling, eyes right, steel pen at the salute as always, passed himself...
Born in India (1865), where his father was director of the Bombay Art School, little Rudyard was sent "home" to be educated. For nearly six unhappy, browbeaten years of his childhood he boarded with the family of a retired naval officer. Every year he escaped for a month into the happy company of his cousins, the Burne-Joneses, whose house was loud with jolly artistic atmosphere, portentous with such figures as William Morris and Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went...
Many a friendly shade haunts the pages of Housemaster: P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, James Hilton's Mr. Chips himself. Author Ian Hay (John Hay Beith), a schoolmaster who turned soldier when his king & country called, wrote Britain's first War best-seller (The First Hundred Thousand), has written 22 books, all of them displaying a school- masterly healthy mind. His latest, a cheery tale of big doings at an English boys' school, is served up cool but crisp, with a slight sogginess inside, like British toast. Housemaster should please the large U. S. audience of Anglophiles...
Ailing for several weeks, Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling entered London's Middlesex Hospital where her late husband, Author Rudyard Kipling, died last year...