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...Rudyard Kipling English...
...mind and body. One wonders, timidly, while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm. She had the happy faculty of making friends as easily with Ellen Terry and Rudyard Kipling as with the neighborhood grocer. Her immense audience will treasure this frank account of as vivid and diverse a career as any of her time...
Stanley Baldwin, British Premier: " The students of Edinburgh University have elected me Lord Rector in succession to Mr. George. My first cousin, Rudyard Kipling, was recently installed as Rector of St. Andrews in succession to James M. Barrie...
...Addison Woolsey Bronson, the book collector, has been permitted to make a copy of a unique poem which Rudyard Kipling wrote some years ago for Mr. F. D. Underwood, the president of the Erie Railroad. When Mr. Underwood was general manager of the Soo line, he named two stations, Rudyard and Kipling, after Rudyard Kipling whose works he greatly admired, and wrote the author about his Michigan namesakes. Kipling replied by sending him a cabinet photograph with these lines inscribed upon the back...
...Land and Sea Tales", which will be published on October twenty-sixth by Doubleday, Page, and Company, is Rudyard Kipling's first new book of fiction in three years. All of the stories have hitherto been unpublished in book form, and eight have never appeared in print. The motive of most of these stories is courage, the courage to want something supremely and to pay the price for it, the courage to make quick decisions and to keep a cool head against long odds...