The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-19
A KIPLING
Failure of an English Publisher to En-
tighten the Public About Him.

hEUtth inc fuDl1C ADOuI Mn
uov rt.Io ia r,own about urdv.-d E;n,i,s,s
ner.onal,tv and career ia shown nv n Vote
hooL IN Kin,ing - raoar.Iv nuh,,sbcd AZ pir.
ntncb.u Fr,lond Tho yoiumo II 10 st,tod
/. issrcd tnr thn usn ~ those win orn irtor.
estad IN Mr. Einliro and for tbeir in Information
= -. v nv ~ a -
the editor mas got to2ether enough lhlorma-
ton and statistics TO make up a booklet of
twenty pages. about six BY four inches, with
the aid of some matter Of doubtful relevancy.
Criticism is forestalled by the announcement:
merous calls upon his time he has been unable
to do more than very scant justice to the sub
ieGt Of his undertaking"
he then starts out with a netitious quota
ton from a fictitious diary OF kipling's.
AT Last have rccoiyed an offer Got 70 the
"a. ns. aS h, n,te r"eearsu =" nao oHv van 20 aboe III
a man-o'-war and do a days work"
This is in reference to the episode of the
Horsmondon School budget. to which moro of
the booklets space is devoted later on. Then
m a KIp'inE motto not originally selected
Life is worth living through every grain OF
w. y ~ IVA "'' ''S' Nv
rornerstone-Death'"
Follow next r some so-cailea notes on h,pi,nG
are an'' supplement tod b w. two pages %, 'i press op nrr
ions on The Days Work" The Horsmom-
den school B"doet comes in for two pages Of
TORS wrote to Kipling Offering him threepence
an ~ n y nrt,oIe ON snhoo,hnr n,,o,'otto
and justifyine their offer by an Apostle quo
tation from his own verses to the effect that
for the love Of the y work itself. The touchRinHes
cheek OF this Offer tothe author whose writings
bring bring 4 highe To rrlSe tha n ta strieo OF KIN All, other oT
lust the correct angle to pierce between the
joints OF his armor OF habitual reserve. aud
In the course OF time the manuscript was
Nav II. iis,s. 'Fo"rtided% by this The enter.
prisine boy editors wrote to Max Beerbohm for
d picture Of Kipling and received n very clever
caricqtnro. which was also published Hitherto
in comparative obscuritv. but straightway the
K~ipliomaniocs in ali parts OF the world sent for
il. and the edition was sold out Of I'll sort, p
contribntion II cannot be said that i was one
which il written by any Other man would have
Burne Jones. presumably inserted because he
Fart ii, begins with a chronology OF Kiplipg.
which would be interesting II It were at ali
them hen mo- other s 1Nte until ,nttiip fsS5' when i 4 SAYS he
returned from an EuRlieh school 10 India. This
I On error; t. a. ~ KFtp pd6aGI vas IS more !hap ! Is 1 years
K XIII ,SS bdPs sEFsSnhSij its sG @S E wn Hs1 %a%ha %%SH and ID
fSs8 ne the time when he became known
in England. In 1884 he travelled around
Balestier, and between 1892 and isQ6 he
lived chiefly in the United states, according
for south Africa, and in The fnIl OF that YEAR he
was reported 10 he in search OF material on tho
cnnst Of Ireland There Ia mnnya man dead
and bnricd thess . Nh veor ~ wWh"sys nim9raphics
have been act before the pnbIic lar more corr
ulet"ly than the compilcr OF the Notebook has
set forth tho living KipIinE In the compiler's
behalf IL should be said on the other hand
that few men have nsistoII so strenuously
unon the nriynrv Of their own iu1iyiduality as
Kiniinp
in iir matter Of puhlicotiOns the Notebooks
chronologv ia more sntisgacrorv Its LIST nl
American editions. while not embodying all of
Einlinr's work iS arcurate so fnr M If goes,
Thnrn Ia also n iisf Of the snric. Of the Indian