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KIPLING TO ROYAL ACADEMY
AUTHORS RESPONSE TO THE
TOAST OF "LITERATURE."
lat the Anniversary Banquet Held at
Burlington House-He Had Arrived
From South Africa That Morning.

SOutu AAGkEtl Lnht LhOIhlHSs
Rudyard Kipling responded to the
toast of Literature" at the anniversa-
| ry banquet of the Royal Academy, held
on the evening of May in the Central
| Gallery of Burlington House. London.
The gathering was a brilliant one, in
GLIDING eminent representatives of the
arts and sciences, letters, politics and
| the professions. In the courtyard a
guard of honor supplied by the Tween
tleth MiddleseX (artists), r. V. c., was
mounted, with the brass band of the
| regiment in attendance; and the Duke
! OF Connaught, the representative on
| this occasion of the royal family, was
| received on his arrival with royal sa-
Lutte, the band playing the national an
them.
About two hundred and fifty guests
! sat down to dinner. On the presidents
right were seated the Duke of Con-
| naught, the Russian ambassador, the
| Austro- Hungarian ambassador, the
| Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir H.
Campbell Bannerman, the Netherlands
minister, the Norwegian minister, LORD
| Darlington, Mr.. Haldane, NJ. P. (secre-
tary of state for war;; Mr.. Birrell, NJ
| F., and Mr. Sydney Buxton, M. p. On
the presidents left sat the French am
bassador, the Turkish ambassador, the
American ambassador, the italian am
bassador, the Archbishop of York. the
Duke Of Northumberland, the Danish
minister the Swedish minister, Lord
Lansdowne, Lord Cawdor, Lord Stan
ley, Lord Ashbourne, Mr.. st. John
Brodrick and Mr. Arnold Forster, NJ P.
In introducing Mr.. Kipling, accord
ing to the London Times the president,
Sir Edward Poynter, remarked;
Among our guests we include many
whose names are distinguished in lit
erature. The close alliance between lit
erature and art has often been ce,ebra-
ted in this room. The influence that
literature may have upon art is obvious
and need not be gone into now, but lit
erature which Is worthy of the name is
in itself an art; by this mean that the
writer, like the painter or the sculptor
must have mastery Of his material
and that in neither profession is a man
; who does slovenly work entitled to be
! called an artist.
i propose to couple with this toast
the name Of one we'll known to you all
who never wrote a slovenly line In his
life either of poetry or prose, and who
has, besides. that insight into humanity
1,oat - tfaJ a,yt1
/, sion which proclaim an artist Of The
/, highest degree (cheers); you know hin
as the enchanter of childhood, the here
, of boyhood, the grand exponent of Wig
orous manhood, the stanch upholder o
the honor of his country. When | ado
, that he Is the adored of our brave sol
! diers you will easily guess whom
, mean. (Cheers.) Rudyard Kipling hat
come straight home from South Africa
arriving only this morning, to do US tn
honor of replying to this toast. vii
, not praise him further to his face, TO
7 he has never courted applause and /
!, modest enough to resent it. Wisel,
. foreseeing that once an artist become
a public man he is almost doomed as al
, artist; he set, his face, from the tim
7 that he came to England from India
? almost boy and suddenly famous
against being Honized, and resolutel
. refused to be. dragged into the yorte
n of social or public life. His work is hi
life, and his home and family are hi
J. dearest relaxation. l give you tn
n toast Of literature coupled with tn
name of Mr.. Rudyard Kipling.
(Cheers)
Mr.. Kipling said:
"A great and I frankly admit
somewhat terrifying, honor has come
- me; but ! think, compliments apar
the most case-hardened worker in lei
Il tiers speaking to such an assembly a
h this must recognize the gulf that seps
rates even the least Of those who d
~ things worthy to be written about froi
even the best of those who have wri
10 ten things worthy Of being talke
J. about.
- There is an ancient legend whic
tells us that when man first achieve
$ a most notable deed he wished to e.
s, plain to his tribe what he had don
Ill AS soon as he began to speak, howeve
20 he was smitten with dumbness,
lacked words, and sat down. The
&c there ose-according to the story
e, nasterless man, one who had taken
ne part in the action Of his fellow, wi
had no special virtues but afflicted
that is the phrase-with the magic
~ the necessary words. Naughter) 7
b. saw, he told, he described the merits {
IS the notable deed in such fashion, Y
- are assured, that the words 'becan
!. alive and walked up and down in Il
= hearts of all his hearers Thereupo
the tribe seeing that the words we
20 certainly alive, and fearing lest Y
NC man with the words would hand dow
- - untrue tales about them to their CHI
w. dren, they took and killed him. b
=. later they saw that the magic was
-, the words, not in the man.
W I'VE have progressed in many dire
0- tons since the time of this early al
destructive criticism (Qaughter), but
ny far we do not seem to have found
TO sufficient substitute for the necessa
" word as the final record to which
achievement must look Even to-da
no when all is done, those who have do
~ it must wait until all has been SAID
the masterless man with the wore
It is certain that the overwhelmi
bulk of those words will perish in t
er future as they have persisted in t
nd past; 1t is true that minute frach
will continue to exist, and by the Zig
- | 20 +l,.o.a ,,,or5- and bU that light on