The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-05
POETS WHOSE WORK Is NOTED FOR VRLITY

ahuding 10 It's having first appeared
bound and tied up as a government en-
Veiope. lt sold for about Is cents but
OF late has become so scarce that a
stray copy brought $40 at an auction In
London recently.
hlpling reminds one more OF a grown
up boy than man who has achieved a
WoridWlde reputation says German
critic who was once favored with an in
terVleW' ana when he speaks and turns
ms tace you would think you had be-
lore you very wide awake and harm
less child. But his publishers know well
mat Notwithstanding his apparent
Fouthfulness and disregard OF money
ne mas the business sense very keenly
developed, for he probably gets more
rom his books than any other author
living.
10" kipling was drawn from India
London by his rising reputation and
now ne was tempted over 20 the United
states by the offers OF rival publishers
~ story that has been told many
''mes as well as his winning an Amer
'ah wire and for time taking up his
'sidence IN Vermont Al the time he
as SICK unto death with pneumonia In
March 1883. the whole world was moved
WIN sympathy. Were he an emperor"
SAID a countryman OF his at that time.
ne could not have greater honor paid
aim than that now being shown by the
Wo great nations Of the Anglo Saxon
ace To England and the English ne
oas made himself dear by his sagas OF
empire soul stirring trumpet strains
that rouse ambition and love Of coun-
| iiy ia the hearts OF the shoddiest little
| itnglander of us all" How true this is
has since beea shown in the enthusiasm
awakened by his "Absentminded Beg.
gar and his varied Poems of the Sew.
On Seas"
u were work OF sUpereroeation l.
call attention 10 any one OF Kiplings =
| poems or short stories perhaps 50
| thoroughly has he become idontifed
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
ise of his youth Some of his charac.
ters, like Mulvaney, Learoyd and Or
thoris, that quaint trio of reckless sol
diers, 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 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
bler's wax and stick yourself TO your
seat If you wish to do much work. Cob
bler's wax was what kept Trollope at
work and made his fortune But there
is a vast difference between his books
and Kipling's as TO literary values.
| If there is any one thing that Kip
ling hates next to being interviewed. II
is hypocrisy and sham. He uses good
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.
| IL is said, that caused him to leave his
beautiful home near Brattleboro, which
had cost him $50 900, and flee TO the
quiet seclusion OF his present English
home at Nottingham.
Asked IL he had always a taste for
writing, Kipling said; What else was I
born for? The inkpot was emptied into
my veins and was bound to ooze out
through my fingers. = /" But i want TO
give good work. That is my only con-
Germ i'm life"
To know Kipling. that honest eyed,