Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12

Of the great writer's of his generation
No mans education is complete unless
he has a general knowledge of what
this Englishman has done. He and Mark
Twain occupy a place apart, they are so
much greater than their contemporaries.
They both seem to have an intuitive un-
derstanding of life. When you read
them you are not reading just a story.
but are going to school to these skilled
interpreters of human emotions and sane
commentators on the social and moral
problems of the times. The versatility
Of kipling is marvellous. Unless we had
evidence TO prove it l would not believe
that the same man wrote The Brush
wood Boy and Soldiers Three And the
Jungle Books are so different from these
that we need more than internal evi.
dence to establish their authorship.
'Stalky' is in an entirely different vein
and Puck of Pooks Hit is a historical
romance which many of my friends have
read and re-read as they turn again and
again to'Pilgrim's Progress You know,
Of course, that Kipling was famous at
the age of twenty-five. This is younger
nine years that he has been writing he
has justified the distinction which came
10 him in his youth. His fame is not
confined to the English-speaking world,
for the Nobel prize for literature was
conferred on him ten years ago"
He has not been writing any fiction
lately, has he?" Ames asked
"Yes, he has been writing short stories
And they have been printed in the maga.
zines. A Diversity of Creatures the
volume in which they have been col.
Iected, which has just been published, is,
however, the first book of fiction with
his name on the title page that has ap-
peared for about seven years"
Are the new stories up to his old
Standard" DR.. McFabre wanted to know
They seem to me as good as anything
That he has done in that line. The Vii.
lage that Voted the Earth Was Flat is
Helightful farce which every motorlst
ought to carry in his car to read to the
country justices who fine him for eX-
ceeding the speed limit 1t is the story
OF speed trap and how the men who
nall manager and newspaper proprietor
mad been caught in the trap and fined.
nhey consplre to make the town of their
undong the laughing stock of the. world,
ana they succeed. My Sons Wife is a
ptihg satire on the silly people who be.
AeVe they can improve the organization
OF society by making experiments in
social relations MANY "a novel has been
constructed out of simmer material. If
ne mad been in the mood, Kipling could
nave expanded the tale into a volume
py hlling in the outline Of his plot, and
~ would have been a good novel. The
Honors of War is an army story in
which bounders is enticed to his un.
ooing by group of gentlemen. And
,hesulus. You ought to read Regulus,
Ames."
is it about that old Roman general
VINO was fool enough to go back to
Narthage to be tortured after advising
me Romans to refuse to surrender"
fhe same gentleman" said l. kip
"ng uses it as the peg on which to hang
discussion of the relative merits of
classical and scientific instruction in the
public schools. He has a class in the
nth form trans,ating Horaces famous
.hihd ode OF his fifth book, which tells
she story OF Regulus. The instructor is
man of imagination and insight who
seheVes that there is more education
4 while in one such Latin ode than
: whole volume Of scientific facts that
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