Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-11

Special Correspondence.
oNDON. Jan. 1.--Rudyard Kip
ling is now enjoying u great
vogue in France, which Is due
largely TO the verve and fidelity
with which his translator. NJ. Fabuiet'
has done his work. Since kipling was
awarded the Nobel prize, attention mas
been directed TO him afresh and various
writer's In the Paris press have been eN-
plaining him, clarifying him. account
ing for his universal acceptance by ms
own land as the poet and spokesman
OF British imperialism, and theori2iils
as 10 why France has produced no man
who fills a similar role there Ernest
Judet. in the "Eclsir' arrives at the
conclusion that it Is because in France
no large distinction prevails between
patriotism and politics and every
achievement that concerns the ha'loh
is Judged from a partisan standpoint
.;,rhe particular niche that Kipiing
occupies literature Is poor mean
way OF describing it--comes, he says
from this very fact that mo EhSl!sn-
maa can conceive of PATRIOTISM WIN
out politics. No doubt the man whom
sweden has honored is the high priest
of Imperialism, and has no words with
which TO tickle Little Englanders; az
the same time he is the spokesman OF
the nation the lyrical commentator OF
the British Renaissance, which is the
result OF wider conception OF the in
heritance of empire
THE nation that honors without cavil
and Indecent party conflict, the services
of a Lord Cromer and a Kitchener, OF
Lord Roberts and other generals and
empire-makers which is ever ready TO
vote a handsome money grant to their
national servants. is entitled TO its KIP
ling and indeed produces him. Here,
alasl politics weighs In the balance the
deeds good or bad of pro-consuls, and
the scales go down or up very much as
the parties range in the chamber.
PAENs FOR BEPLING.
The laudatIons OF Kipllng in France
raruind one of the paens of praise that
were showered upon him in England
some years ago After Shakespeare
and Defoe." writes Vlcomte de Vogue,
the celebrated ac9demlcian, In the FL
caro-, mo one helps us to understand
the British miracle as Kipling does. He
expresses and represents force which
dominates the world. His books bring
to mind the seal lrt Rock OF Gibraltar,
bristling with cannon. guarded by gen.
tlemen who play tennis, drink whisky,
think little, and are each and all ready
to suffer atrocous death before relaxing
their grip OF n piece of the world OH
which they have laid hand
yet we can hear Klpling glbe at
them. He seems to say. i know them.
They are very stupid. But they are
Britain. And Britain rules hundreds of
millions. The Deity constructed clumsi-
ly the British machine OF empire. Yet
He has never built a finer one since
Rome; ana He never viii create a
greater one than Britain"
The entente cordialc" Is doubtless
responsible for no inconsiderable por-
ton OF these laudatory outbursts They
are In striking contrast 10 the lack OF
enthusiasm with which the announce
ment that Kipling had been awarded
the Nobel prize for literature has been
received here. There is undeniably a
general feeling In English literary cir
Giles that In recent years Klpling has
done nothing that adds 10 his fame
that, IN fact he has declined. one paper
expresses satisfaction over his denial
OF the rumor that he was engaged on a
book about Canada which he lately Wis
tied, and voices the hope that period
OF temporary silence Will enable him 10