New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-18


stands for half the year six feet high; passed
some time among the French Canadians whose
popular poetry he cannot sufficiently recon-
mend then went 10 Alaska. then on tn japan
and through Asia back again to Europe. Since
then where has ne not BEEN When one asks
where this man has obtained the details which
give his tales taken from all the furthest quar-
tere Of the globe. the stamp of absolute truth
the answer is simple. be- has seen the things
himself. Thus when he was asked where he
obtained the materials for the story or the
white Seal" in one of the Jungle hooks, he
answered II have seen it all with my own
eyes" Ir Kelner compares the mass OF details
contained ia each short story of kiplings TO the
advertisement Of a London firm which recon-
nends It's beef extract Ivy showing whole OK
in a teacup. and ne draws therefrom the moral
that the day is over Of boulevard aud restaurant
writer's who only describe the life around them
We want now the fullest material in the most
perfect form. Kipling, the writer continues,
though he offers such an endless variety OF ma
terial lays the greatest stress upon form. lse
has, Of course. created school anu equaiiy' VI
course, the scholars initiate the weakest points
Of his youthful -superabundance OF ma
terial with sovereign contempt for form inns
has much irritated Kipling, and caused nm 10
lay even exiravagant stress upon the WORK Oh
form. ,
The artistic object Of all details was declared
by Mr. Kipling to be 50 as to produce the same
effect upon the reader as these deta'is 'liein-
selves have produced upon the writer. An IN
terrstinC example Of this was gwen ny MI
Kpline with regard to Shakespeares rem
pest" When he visited the BcTihuuds III "oe
SURPRISED Ia find when landing on one pai' Vi
the coast how familiar il all seemed 10 MN
Suddenly he came across a lofty cave anu lle
riddle was solved 1t was exactly the scent
Of Shakespeares Teinpest az III i'"u a." ~
pjctured II to himself On investigating ,he
so,Irc. of Shakespeare's play II turned OUT that
the great dramatist had In fact read a 1ts'rIp
ton of a voyage to the Bermudas ana mao e"-
actIy reproduced the details
THOUGHT AS ABORTivE SPEECH.
Rut Killings formula is not completed BY re-
garsijng his work az full material IN peritc'
form That is the ideal of all writers Oh tne
first rank He seeks, in addition 10 hhu 'n'
soul of men in all he writes Both ID MS woihS
and his conversation he shows himself psycho-
ogist who even reaches by his own observation
the same results as modern men OF science "
whose works and names he has never hea .i
IAN thought" he said for example IL aoo'''Ne
sueech and thus summed up without having
heard of il the theory of the late Professor
Strickcr. which he had conttnoed i"i III "!'"e
e. explain the true nature OF speech.
When Dr kener complained 10 MN ol vi.
difficulties he found in comparing the direrent
value he found placed upon EngIsh Poe'S III
England itself and among foreign nations W
Kipnr remarked. Il perfectly UNDERSTAND .','
dini.r.nco Of tast. and therefore OF Judgment,
on on, and the same poet by two diiieieh'
PEOPLE only wonder that now and theh
.cr,ement does al all exist You Germans may
understand English a. taf as grammar a'lu
Dictionary can convey II t. you. but wheh you
translate Justice 10y gercchtgkeii on virtue
by tugend" you 10y NJ means can UP ny 'h'Se
words In, same idea which the tnsilShHidn
thought of when ne wrote down these W"ius'
W.. write II is true letters of the alphap''
hit psychologically regarded every printed
mage. is a picture book. every WORD. concrete VI
abstract a picture The picture itseli may never
come 10 H., readers consciousness, but deep
down below in the UNCONSCIOUS realms th' P''
IRE works and Influences us. and that Is where
the difficulty lies Every nation has hs own
nictur, for every word. ana ms IL passeh Ola
,,pcnusciouslv from. generation to tehefati"h'
Tho German has quite another klnd OF picture
for ger, chticket as the EnglisilWan TOT JUS
tice' Now every poem contains huhnreus W,
eucb ric,uree II is rather to he wondered III
maj any nation can AT all understand the puetr!
of auniLcr. and still" ht added. re'ecUNc's
"thc tim, is rapidly approaching that the hd-
,ione Will understand one another
II Is perhaps surprising to near su.h "o'''
from the imperialist Kpng who has hohe
more Than any living politician to spreaFlin-
rer,alism but IL is one of the tohtinehtaI ms
Understandings Of Imperialism to regard IL az
Identical with lingo politics. From what the
interviewer heard from Kiplins. he was Oh 'he
nnininn tbat the Friends of Peace VIII ma no
difiiculty in winning Mr.. Ripping AS |" fhei"oe'
of their society.
KIPLING AND RHODES.
..rhc annexation Of one white nation ny an
other n, said Il regard as the greatest CRIME
,b.t q politician can commit. Don't annex