New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-13
MR.. KIPLING'S SUPPRESSED WOKKS.

DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TAI AND OF lHE
QUEEN OF THE PASS
From The QOndon) Bookman.
g." 1t is happily not our business to record Mr. Kip
lings contributions Indian journalism. Many OF
them have not been reprned-w never be reprinted
Two little collections have been issued and suppressed
The first Is "The City OF Dreadful Night descrip'
ton Of Calcutta, which occupies eight chapterS' ana
is followed by "Among the Railway FoiK'" "lhe
CisldI Coal Fields and In Opium Factory"
This had "a considerable circulation in this country
and In India before 1t withdrawn. The other
is entitled Letters OF Marquc. Vol. L." and was pub
Nshed after tie City Of Dreadful Light" 50 iar rs
We know 1t was never sold In this country. although
1t was circulated some weeks IN India 10th DOORS
were issued By the publishers in perfect good iaith
while Mr.. Kpling was ON his travels, but thry weIe
thought by the author ana his friends TOO immature
show the writer at his best, though the whole mas
Letters of Marquee venture to make some ex-
tracts
THE TAI.
"There Is story OF Frenchman who feared
not God nor regarded man. sailing to Egypt for the
express purpose OF scofng ut tie Pyramids and
though this is hard TO beeve-at the great Napoleon
'W .. alfred under their shadow 1t is on record
that that basphemOus Caul came TO the Great lyTa-
mid and wcpt through mingled reverence ana c0n'ri
tOn, for he sprang from an emotional race 10
his feelings 1t is necessary 10 have read
q great deal much about the Tai, its designs and
proportions, to have execrable pictures Of 1t
ut the eimla Fine Arts Exhibition. to have had rs
praises sung BY superior and travelled friends TIL
The brain oaIed the repetition of the word. and
then sulky with want of sleep heavy-eytd unwashen
circumstances everything, you will conccde; is in
favor Of cold critical and not TOO impartial yer,
diet. As the Englshman leaned out of the carriage
he saw first opaltined cloud the horizon,
and later certain towers The mstT lay on the
the earth, and the msts rose In the background,
Then as the train sped forward and the msts Shifted
and the sun shOne upon the mists, the TAI took a.
descrpiion 1t Was the ' Ivory Gate through which
all good dreams come; II was the realization OF the
Of; it was verilaby the aspiration fixed the sigh
made stone of lesser poet; and over and above
all things pure. all things holy and all things un.
happy. That was the mystery OF the hulldnS' II
that the Tai in the dry sunlight is only guide
books say noble structure. The Engishman could
nearer the spot for fear of breaking the charm OF
the unearthly pavilions;
Hierp pt Of the sight 1t is certain that
press Ions he has H,' been in the least moved;
vemS vino s ana % Of
the sorrow OF The man who built 1t for the woman
in , the 5udins~used up Ike cattle; And in The
face Of this sorrow the Tai flushed In The sunlight
and was beautiful. after the beauty OF woman who
has done wrong"
AMBER. QUEEN OF THE PASS
"And what shall be said Of Amtcr Queen Of the
Pass-the city that Jey singh bade his people slough
as snakes cast their shnsl The GlobcT will
assure you that 1t must be done before anything
else, and the GobeTrOtter is for perfectly cor
rect. Amber lies between six and seven miles from
Jeypore among the tumilcd fragments of the hills
and is readable b. prosac a conveyance as n
ticca ghari, and uncomfortable an elephant
He is provided BY the Maharaia and the people who
make India their prey are apt to accept ms services
II Rise very early in the morning, before the stars
till the pavement gives place TO cactus AMI sanN.
and educational ana enlightened !n,utuu,ns TO mile
weather beaten-runninS down 10 the shores Of the
great Man eagar LAKE., wherein ruined tenn
urIs nave homes the half submerged arcaics
and the mugger nuzzles the shafts Of the piiiar,
Leyond the Man Sagar the road of TO day Climbs up
Of on, Yesterday sunk in concrete Down this
path the swords of Amber went out TO Kill 4 triple
drops INTO the valley Of AmDcr In the hail light
Of dawn great city sunk between hills and built
round three sides of a Lake is dlmly visible, and
waits TO catch the hum that should rise from 1t as
the day breaks. The air in the valley is bitterly
chill. With the growing light Amber stands revealed
wake. A few meenas live in hus at the enl of thc
anc he tiers on tiers of houses dcsoate. Tree
grow IN and split open the walls. the windows are
Inc EnGiShman made his way Up the sde Of the hill 10
s sT1 tori p% Of esb n G Guardian fvS S I
elephant swung up the steep roads paved with slon"
Dut out on the SIDES OF the NIL, Inc E1lSlSlla1
looked into empty houses where tie little gray SOUR
rel sat and scratched It's ears. The peacock walked
upon the house-ops and the blue pigeon roasted
within. He passed under iron studded gates whereof
tie hinges were eaten out with rust, and by walls
plumcd and crowned with grass. and under move
sateways TILL at ast he reached the palace and
came suddenly into great quadrangle where two
blinded, arrogant stations, covered with red and
toiA uaplihss, screamed and naghed al each other
iIom opposite ends OF the vast space.
From the top OF the palace you may read II You
please the Book OF Ezekiel written In stone upon the
hillside. Coming up. the Ensishman had seen the
its very heart-the heart that had ceased to beat
In those pulu streets-nothing but the coohg OF the
pigeons At first 1t scem,d that the palace was not
,up the hOIs,oi,s and the bells would ring In the
temples But as lie attempted to follow With his
eye the turns Of the streets the Englshman saw that
stone and that some of the houses rent with
great cracks. and pierced from roof to road with
holes that let In the morning sun. The drip stones
OF the caves were gaptoothed, and the tracery Of
the screens had fallen out 50 that zenann rooms
OF the city the strong walled houses dwindled and
sank down TO mere stone heaps and faint indications
ground Of stony soil. The shadow OF the palace lay
two-thirds OF III" city, and the trees deepcn"d
the shadow lie has bent him DER dead after
the hour OF which Byron sings, knows that the features
OF the man become blulled. as 1t were-tbe face be-
gins TO fade. The same hdeous look lies on the face
realized the eye wonders that II cOul have ever DO
lievcd in the life OF her. She Is the city whose
Pany is round about her graves sister Of P,thros
.'Move1 by thoroughly lnsular instinct the Eng
from the palace wall into the dark streets below.
1T bounded from a hOaee,Op 10 a window-lcdge, ard
thence into little squarc and the sound OF It's fall
was hollow and echong, as the sound OF stone In
well. Then the silence closed up upon the sount
till in the far away COURTYARD below the roped stations
in the great Indian Desert TO the westward, and
nfi0 ~ m il l,Vlu hQ affb of