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...discoverers of Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted the possibility of throwing a curve. Garland pitched a cricket ball at him, convinced...
...with various connections with Mr. Hearst's book publishing, magazines, newspapers. In foreign contacts he will be valuable, for Mr. Doran is an international figure. Famed in London are his professional feasts. He has known how to secure such authors as Sir Arthur Gonan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Walpole, Herbert George Wells, Somerset Maugham, Frank Swinnerton. In the U. S. he has long been known as one of the very best people for very young writers to see. George Doran was never a man to turn away a novel because it was a "first." Consequently...
Learning that 250 Canadian authors would convene in Montreal this month, Author Rudyard Kipling, sailing from Montreal to England, expressed surprise that there were so many of them. Said he: "Wish them good luck for me. It's an awful trade. I mean...
When the revolution swept away the Tsar and the past, Futurist Mayakovsky appeared triumphant at Leon Trotsky's right hand. Like Rudyard Kipling, with whom Russians compare him, Vladimir Mayakovsky was at his best as a war poet. More than six feet tall, hairy-chested, huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight...
Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape...