The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-10
FROM SEA TO SEA-"
Letters of Travel and Special Articles
by KipIinq.


by Rudyard Kipling. Two volumes.
doubleday & Mcclure Company.
THESE two volumes include Letters
OF Marque," written during a trip
through India; From Sea to Sea-" the
record of a visit to China, Japan and
the United States: 1.-THE City of Dread
tul Night" a series of descriptive ar
ucies from Calcutta; several shorter ar
llcles' all dealing with India, and a
group OF short stories of Indian life,
g en- The Smith Administration. .
Lhey flrst appeared in the columns of
me civil and Military Gazette and the
rIUheer between 1SS7-1SS9, and are now
coiIected and published on account of
the enterprise of various publishers,
VINO, says Mr.. Kipling in his pre-
lace not content with disinterring old
newspaper work from the decent seclu-
SION OF the office files have in several
instances seen fit to embellish it with
adultons and interpretations" When
one reflects that they are all the work
OIL youngster of four and twenty, it
must be granted that they are remark
dply clever, keen and entertaining, and
mat they show to a marked degree not
oniy that trenChant, robust vigor of
-SNtS4A mat stamps the IllOT6 mature
work Of Mr.. Kipling but also the in
tellectual force, the broad sympathy.
the strong prejudices and the reverence
OF the author of THE Light that
Falled' and THE Recessional Hymn
Not only are they strewn thick with
the personality of that Kipling whose
genius all English-speaking peoples ad-
mlre and are proud of today, but the
reader may note several concrete in
stances of impressions that have since
oecome familiar to all readers of Kip
ing, such as the old pagoda in Null
mem, at the foot of whose first flight
OF steps he fell deeply and irrevo-
caoly in love with a Burmese girl" a
fortunate incident for all who have
fallen under the fascination of the tilt
ing rythms Of "Mandalay."
AS collection of snap shots, From
sea to Sea" is a tremendous success,
although the American, who, of course,
VIII be chiefly interested in those por-
tons that treat of his native land, can
scarcely avoid feeling lively indigna-
ton now and again at the insular pre-
JUDGES OF the positive young English
man and desire to correct some of
nus hasuest conclusions, 1t is amaz-
ing, however how correct he is in the
main, how fairly he has measured us.
! - " ~ iAAlSeAIlltAlCdIly IlG has Inter-
preted certain peculirities of our social
life which other visiting foreigners in
their elaborate, other worldly analysis,
nave managed to lose completely
lake hlpling's impressions of the
american girl for instance, and com
pare them with the painstaking failure
OF M. Bourget to corral her in cold type.
Alpllng caught the spirit of the Ameri-
can girl intuitively, while the French
mans elaborate analysis disclosed his
inability to understand the strange phe-
nomenon Sweet and comely are the
maidens Of Devonshira.i' writes Kip
ling; delicate and of gracious seeming
those who live N the pleasant places of
London; fascinating for all their de-
mureness the damsels of France cling
ing closely to their mothers, and with
large eyes wondering at the wicked
world; excellent in her own place and
to those who understand her in the
IAnglo-Indian spin in her second sea-
son; but the girl Of America is above
and beyond them all. They are clever;
they can talk. Yes, it is said that they
think. Certainly they have an appear
ance of so doing. They are original, and
look you between the brows with I'M
abashed eyes as a sister might look at
her brother They are instructed in the
| folly and vanity of the male mind, for
they have associated with the boys
! from babyhood and can dfscerningly
minister to vices, or pleasantly snub the
possessor They possess, moreover, a
| life among themselves, independent OF
masculine associations. They are self
possessed without parting with any
Tenderness that is their seX-right; they
understand; they can take care OF
| themselves; they are superbly indepen-
dent.
when you ask them what makes
them so charming, they say: 1t is be-
cause we are better educated than your
girls and-we are more sensible in re-
gard to men. We have good times all
round. but we aren't taught to regard
every man as a possible husband. Nor
lis he expected to marry the first girl he
calls on regularly. Yes, they have good
times. their freedom is large, and they
do not abuse it.
"The American of wealth is owned by
his family. They exploit him for bullion,
and sometimes il seems to me that his
lot is a lonely one The women get the
ha'pence the kicks are all his own.
Nothing is too good for an American
daughter q speak here of the moneyed
classes). The girls take every gift as a
matter of course. Yet they develop
greatly when a catastrophe arrives and
fine man of millions goes up or goes
down. and his daughters take to steno-
| graphy or type-writirg. I have heard
MANY tales of heroism from the girls
| who counted the principals among thelr
| friends. The crash came; Mamie OF
Hattie or Sadie gave UP their maid,
their carriages and candy, and with a
No. 2 Remington and stout heart SET
about earning their daily bread,
"'And did I drop her from the INST OF
nv friends? No. sir said scarlet
Tipped vision in white lace. Inat hllsh'
happen to me any day.
"From her fifteenth year the Amer'
ican maiden moves among the boys as
| sister among brothers. They are hel
! servants to take her out riding-Whlcr
! is drivins-to give her flowers and can
! 5v THE last two items are expensive
| and this is good for the young man, as
| teaching him to value friendship tina
| coste q little and may necessitate econ
| oyov on the cigar side. AS to the
| walden she is taught to respect her
! self. that her fate is in her own hands
| and that she is the more strlnSentl9
housed by the very measure OF tne ND
ertv so freely accorded TO her' where
| fore, in ner own loti NShS -
! io,,elv time with about two or three
hundred boys who have sisters Of theii
I'm and a very accurate perception
tbat if they were unworthy Of theii
trus+ syndicate of other boys would
nrobably pass them into world wher'
| here is neither marrying nor giving II
marriage. And so time goes TIL tn
r,aiden knows the other side of thu
house.-knows that a man is not
denni-god nor a mysteriously veileC
Monster. but an average. egotistical
vain. gluttonous, but on the who'll
companionable, sort of person, to b.
sonthed. fed and managed-knowledg'
tbaf does not come to her sister in Eng
land fiji after few years Of matrimony
And then she makes her choice IN,
A 1ltu Tjoht touches eyes that are full
~ COMPREHENSION; but the light is gold
on none the less, for she makes jus
ti,o same sweet. irrational choices tina