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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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dityhe issued volume after volume dealing with Eng-lish life in India. In 1889 he left India and trav-elled in China, Japan, America, and England, andthen settled at Brattleboro, Vt.; but within thecurrent year Mr. Kipling has taken up his resi-dence in England. His wife is a sister of thelate Wolcott Balestier. Kiplings works includeDepartmental Ditties (1888); Plain Tales from theHills (1888); Soldiers Three (1889); Phantom Rick-shaw (1889); The Light That Failed (1890); Storyof the Gadsbys (1890); The Naulahka (1892), writ-ten in collaboration with his brother-in-law. Otherbooks are Lifes Handicaps (1891); Ballads andBarrack-Room Ballads (1892); Many Inventions(1893); The Jungle Book (1893); The Second JungleBook (1895); The Seven Seas (iSg6), a volume ofpoetry, and Captains Cotirageous (1897). The London Athenceum says that Kiplings char-acters are simply inimitable. They are types,it is true, but they are living types, not moribundabstractions. They positively palpitate with act-
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^y^cCya^vC Xtfr^^i RUDYARD KIPLING III uality, and we make bold to say there has neverbeen anything like them in literature before. Of his earlier poems the Academy said : Theypossess the one quality which entitles vers de societyto live. For they reflect with light gayety thethoughts and feelings of actual men and women,and are true as well as clever. THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS. When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Edens green and gold,Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould ;And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, Its pretty, but is it Art ? Wherefore he called to his wife, and fled to fashion his work anew—The first of his race who cared a fig for the first, most dread review ;And he left his lore to the use of his sons—and that was a glorious gainWhen the Devil chuckled Is it Art ? in the ear of the branded Cain. They builded a tower to shiver the

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