New-York tribune., 1901-07-27

KIPLING'S WAR TRACT.
TRENCHANT ATTACK ON THE AFRl-
KANDER BOND.
IRELAND AT WORK IN LONDON
LITERARY NEWS.
Copyright 1901: By The New-York TribuneD
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London. July 81. l a. m.-Rudyard Kipling has
written for the Imperial South African Associa-
tion what he calls Tract for the Times on the
Science of Rebellion" 1t is trenChant, in style.
and is directed mainly against the Bond which
is described seeking to attack England
through her pocket and keep Cape Colony on
the seesaw. filling 1t with rumor and unrest.
sympa thizing here and suggesting there just
enough to force the British Government to grant
amnesty to the rebels and recruit the Dutch party
for further constitutional warfare. The logic
of the pamphlet is that 1t is assumed in Cape
Town that the Liberal Opposition will save the
Bond and South Africa for the Bond IL only the
commanders make the expensive and that
the Boer marauders. north and south. work.
ing for a common object namely. the manufact-
Of pro-Boers In England by doubling the in
come tax and by throwing delicate gloom over
every aspect of the situation. The Canadian is
represented by Kipling making these acrid
remarks:
We needn't suspend the constitution for keeps.
but we ought to have a family council, Canada,
Australia and England / mean. and hang the
whole show up for two years till erring sister
has got over her Mysteries. constitution for a
| country that don't know enough to cut it's own
hay; where I've had TO lie out for year in the
open for fear the pious voter would blow up the
railway bridges behind me- sir.
Mr.. Kiplng scOrnfully concludes that the Bond
prefers to keep eye the Continent and
court the favor of the Liberal Opposition in Eng
land rather than TO merit the approval of the two
healthy young nationalities. Canada and Aus
tralia.
Rain spoiled the presentation Of medals to the
| imperial yeomanry as a court function The
distribution a slow process. but was watched
by large crowd. The King persevered in car
rying out the arrangements in spite of the de-
pressing weather. and greeted with excep-
tional heartiness.
Rumors that Lord Kitchener will be relieved
from command in South Africa and sent to India
persistent. but originate in pro-Boer sources
These are obviously premature.
Alleyne Ireland is receiving cOurtesies from
the Foreign and Colonial offices in preparing
/ for the extended journey in the Far East for
which he has been commissioned by the Uni
versity of Chicago. He Is working at the British
Museum and the administrative departments
and will remain In oxford several weeks and
read paper IN September before the British As
ISOLATION on the influence OF geographical envi-
ronment on political evolution, returning in Octo-
ber to America. He will start In February on a
/ Oh Wcfk IN trOplCdl countries. which Will
occupy two and half years. residing successive
! ~ In Burmah. Siam the Malay States. the Straits
Settlements, Sumatra, Java. Borneo. Sarawak
French Indo-China, HOng-Kong and the Philip
pines. and studying political administration in
each country English universities know moth
ing about comprehensive schemes of scientific
work like this
+ Stopford BroOke's life OF Browning and Gra-
ham Balfour's life OF Robert Louis Stevenson
will be among the biographies issued during the
autumn. There will be another Stevenson vol
ume made from unpublished letters Leslie
/ Stephens life of George Eliot will not be fin
/ ished until next year. Eight or ten novels bv
/ unknown or minor writer's announced for
August. The Athenaum' describes owen John
sons Arrows Of the Almighty" as a clever study
OF American life and character including the
development of that character CONSEQUENT upon
/ the civil War and classes II among the best
recent novels by transatlantic writer's Fisher
| Unwin promises delightful art book on old
h.. Hoo -, ~.