Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-03

aluding to It's having first appeared
bound and tied up as government en-
yelope. II sold for about Is cents, but
Of late has become so scarce that a.
stray copy brought $40 at an auction in
London recently.
Kipling reminds one more Of a grown
uD boy than a man who has achieved a
worldwide reputation, says German
critic who was once favored with an in
terview, and when he speaks and turns
his face you would think you had be-
fore you very vide awake and harm
less child, But his publishers know well
that, notwithstanding his apparent
youthfulness and disregard of money.
he has the business sense very keenly
developed, for he probably gets more
from his books than any other author
living
How KipVns was drawn from India
to London ~ bis rising reputation and
how he was tempted over to the United
States by the Offers Of rival publishers
is a story that has been told many
times, as well as bis winning an Amer
lean wife and for time taking up his
residence In Vermont At the time he
was sick unto death with pneumonia in
March, 1893, the whole world was moved
with sympathy. Were he an emperor"
said countryman Of his at that time.
he could not have greater honor paid
him than that now being shown by the
two great nations Of the Anglo Saxon
race, TO England and the English he
has made himself dear by his sagas of
empire, soul stirring trumpet strains
that rouse ambition and love OF coun-
try In the hearts of the shOddest little
Englander Of us all. How true this Is
has since been shown IN the enthusiasm
awakened by his "AbsentmInded Beg
gar and his varied Poems of the Sew
EN- Seas"
II were work Of supererogation to
call attention 10 any one OF Kipllng's
poems or short stories. perhaps, so
thoroughly has he become identified
with the life Of this century and the
latter end Of the one just closed. First
brought In touch with the English
speaking people through the human in
terest in his books. especially his in
imitable short stories. Kipling has sus-
tanned and more than fulfilled the prom
Use Of his youth. Some of his charac-
tiers, like Mulvaney, Learoyd and Or
thoris, that quaint trio Of reckless sol
dlers, will live while books continue to
be printed In our language. and into
many a scene and character which
would otherwise have still been nonex-
istent he has breathed the breath of
life.
AS a worker Kipling is indefatigable,
though intermittent, and evidently be-
lieves, genius that he is, in Anthony
Trollope's advice to get a ball of cob
blers wax and stick yourself to your
seat II you wish TO do much work. Cob
bers wax was what kept Trollope at
work and made his fortune. But there
is vast difference between his books
and Kipling's as to literary values
II there Is any one thing that Kip
ling hates next to being interviewed, II
Is hypocrisy and sham. He uses good,
oIoit AHSiO-NdAVH MOIus III NlllHlE
and sometimes strong, but not so good,
Anglo.Saxon words in his speech, es-
pecially when annoyed by people who
intrude upon his privacy, 1t was this
persistent intrusion upon his preserves,
1t is said. that caused him to leave his
beautiful home near Brattleboro, which
had cost him $4,000, and flee to the
quiet secluslon Of his present English
home at Nottingham.
Asked II he had always taste for
writing, Kipllng said; What else was |
born for? The inkpot was emptied into
my veins and was bound to ooze out
through my fingers. - But want to
give good work. That is my only con-
Germ in life"
To know Kipling. that honest eyed.