The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-12-13
HbOUt Men,,
BO9k8 and ThinQ8.

ar. kinIinr Is MT expected t. "
2 II e. onal or tn COZ use Bear
every day. Even il the rush u inciIeu
! rtat have turr FL j tie nys ~ragyr~ n !
l,aI copy anl bg lall~ ana ii. states
mcl With puzzles This YEAR. The E. cas-. :
for Sich poems tate NOT been IN is mat
tiers. But one IS i .iltd ii ass. j. Nj.
hiplinG quite far to his gen u>: l..
question rs 50 Nbe h,r .r mas gem
seems u he no longer . debafahlr me ~
it was even q year :tgo. lie is hardly
doing With it what iii, admirers l,ad ~.
, pected. apart fr.ln the twa io.m~ my.t
Toned.
Tor instance AR. KiIling seems -
have fallen into tie hands Tor clutch.~ =,
81 the tcrary ~yHdicalc~. Onc l.
posed t. regret that. Syuli.at, E~tera.nr.
j. not precisely tie kinI THAT j. ,NIc. ted
81 lie arthor Of the Ballads" AMI
"Ja.e' There Is some very txcrl NJ
& AIDING that reaches the ubl { through
.ha indicate medium, bat there ae
so4e thousands of writer's Who can rrt-
dEee il. They can not write Recession
as and Jungle st res. TIE En- lisa
navy IS 4 subject that catches the j. pa
lar ear Just noW ana Mr.. Ilipl NJ writes
about i in his own inim.tahc way aul
the n wSpapers PRINT what he writes. lie
doubtless gets wei paid for his work but
somehow one hoped that Mr.. KiplnE
would not be bitten by the doll1r-alinr
mania ANA that he would reserve for h.u-
self some standard otaes tnan that which
rules on Change. doubtless the 'IdyI-
Of the King" or VANITY Fair woull
haye been quite Is mgr.tCriouS If they
had reached the public with the aid 81
i literary bureau but some carp.ng souls
viii always be CAD that they did not.
In writing the "Tru,e Of the Bear" did
Ar. Sipling think what IN instrument
Of torture he was putting into tie mouths
Of the female elocuti nists? lie probably
did net. 1t is Z fine poem. a very fine
poem. hut if he had once @ra~pcd how
readily it lends itself to the fell purpas,
stated one is inclined to til nix lie would
have thrown it in the waste basket. as
he did the occasional. and have TT So
to let Mrs. kipl NJ fish it out rs she did
the other poem. 1t IS SUR
to get itself printed III AL the col
~lections of Pieces 20 Speak 1t is tao
cp II to the desi@ 5 Of the young leadcr
Of her class and the prid # the family
WHO VIII chant It from tn front 81 tie
restrum on commencement occasions.
while the local brass band SUI
plies q cleaning and martial background.
| hope the publishers viii hrg III" c py-
right and deny 10 al makers Of elo-
cutionary collections an opportunity II
subject the Truce Of the Bear TO the fate
that awaits it, all too soon at best.
Why is it, by the way. that no one has
arisen to do for America, on the inaugii
ration OF It's new policy. what Mr.. Kip
ling did for England on the occasions
Of the Jubilee ana the Disarmament PRO
posaI? Certainly the day was quite IS
auslicious. the contingency rs rich II it
erary possibilities. The spirit was h re
and needed only some one to cmhody It.
But the some one did not appear and 50
the poem that would have been wo til
considerably more to the race, and prob
ably to the country, than the Philippines
had to go UnWritten. II has been .
good many years since such IN opportu-
nifty to wake up famous WAS dangled
under the noses Of our poets ana it vii
necessarily be many more before another
such arises. The poets might begin 10
train for it meantime however.
i : q
The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
British Colonial Secretary. is the lingo
Of ENGLAND. There is no one in this
country to whom he can be compared
since we have no jingo Who IS pre-ami
nent. Naturally there is interest t.
know how Mr.. Chamberlain regards oar
new aspirations to become 4 word pow
CT. all the more that we nave not our-
selves quite made up orr minds vet hoW
to regard them. Mr.. Chamberlain q Is
~ - = -:-- - At-.I.,-". 4 -.
December under the title: Recent De
velopments of Poll y in the United States
ana Their Relations to an -An~glo-SaNon
Alliance
In one lucid paragraph Mr.. Chamber
lain crystalizes the best opinion on bph
sides Of the Atlantic with reference 10 til
proposed Anglo-American alliance: ANY
attempt to pledge the two nations before
hand to combined offensive and defensive
acton in all circumstances must ineyi-
tabIy break down ard be Il source Of
danger instead Of strength. All there
fore that the most s%anguine advocate OF
an alliance can contemplate IS that the
United States and Great Britain should
keep in close touch with each other, and
that whenever their policy and their in
terests are identical. they should be pre-
pared TO concert together the necessary
measures for their defense
Nj. Chamberlain, # curse. advises eX
pansion though it is not THAT but his sum
mary Of I~1ngland's experience that inter
ests rs. After referring 10 the method
by which England governs her English
c~olon:eS.h he says: Influenced by the same
idea, we elaborated constitutions ~ tho
sore f,r every kin Of trp.cal DIP nd ncr
in the vain expectation that the native
population would appreciate forms Of
government evolved in our cvn ciyiliza-
ton. and would learn quickly t. be S r.
supporting and to develop for themselves
the territories in whcih we began to think
we only had a temporary interest. We
were disappointed, and we have had l.
recognize that for an indefinite period of
time the ideas and the standards Of orr
social and political order cannot be intel
ligentIy accepted and applied by races
which are centuries behind us in the
process Of national evolution.