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RUDYARD KIPLING-Edward Shanks-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).
A French critic, asked who was really France's greatest poet, answered: "Helas! C'est Victor Hugo." Mr. Shanks sadly admits that no recent English critic would have thought of including Rudyard Kipling among England's great, even tagged with an "Alas!" Mr. Shanks says briskly that...
U. S. readers have long ago forgotten or decided to ignore Kipling's political creed for the sake of his storytelling, his motto-memorable verse: Mr. Shanks sternly reminds them that they had better not. Whether or not Kipling was a profound thinker, he was an effective preacher, and...
Kipling despised and hated democracy in all its forms. "Democracy," says Mr. Shanks, "meant to him simply a system under which incompetent people strove to take work out of the hands of people competent to do it." Kipling apparently imbibed this conviction with his mother's milk, and it...
One fall day in 1892, a raw 22-year-old named Blanford Barnard Dougherty came down out of the mountains of western North Carolina to the little town of Lenoir. Ahorse and by shanks' mare, he had traveled all the stormy night from Boone, 25 miles away. He was...