Arizona republican., 1919-04-20

published by Doubleday, Page X Com pany, contains the best of kiplins's pOetical work of the last two decades. It is his first full sized volume since "A Diversity of Creatures" in 191I which was prose. With the exception of "Songs from Books" which was Q [ collection and expansion of material already written. it is his first volume of poems since the publication of The Five Nations" in 1903
 The volume contains all Mir. Kip ling's reactions to the world war and the relations of the Anglo Saxon racp 10 world events. As many of the poems in this collection had only fugitive newspaper publication at the time they were written. they are now for the first time made available 10 the public gen. orally.
 Some of the more striking of them are as follows: "The Bowers" orig inally published in the London Times in 1902. It treats of Germany's ef- fort at that time to embroil Great Britain with the United States by get ting her, under the usual pretense of friendship, to join in a naval demon stration against Venezuela, ostensibly to frighten Venezuela into paying her debts 10 Germany and England, but covertly in tho hope that John Bull would fall foul of Uncle Sam's Monroe doctrine. The poem is particularly notable as containing the first charac- terization of the modern German as a Hun It concludes with these lines:
 Der half the world to run.
 With a cheated crew, to league anew With the Goth and the Shameless
 Hun
 Mir. Kipling himself stated that in this characterization he had in mind the kaiser's message to his troops in China at the time of the Boxer rising, when he charged them to remember Attila and to make their name terrible among the Chinese.
 France" was written on the occa- sion of the French presidents visit to England the year before the war. It is n itself a complete record and proph- ecy of the old generous rivalry between the two nations and the new friend ship. The line. That undying sin we shared in Rouen market place." refers of course, to the burning of Joan of Arc, for which crime both nations were guilty.
 "The Outlaws, written in 1914, fore casts in the line, Their own hate slew their own soul before the victory came," the moral collapse of four years later, when the defeated Germans turned and rended their own country as they have been doing ever since.
 ''Rusisa to the Pacifists" was writer over two years ago, but gives a true picture of Russias present condition a condition brought about by the in- tellectuals and the pacifists, just as har .1 1~lr~
 The Song of the Lathes" is a trib- ute to the great army of women, many of them of German descent, wht worked in the intuition factories dur ing the war, with, as MT. Kipling ha: said, "a sustained energy that was al. most terrifying The difference be- tween the hate of men and women i: strtkingly brought out in these lines Mans hate passes as his love vii
 pass.
 God made woman what she alway.
 was.
 Them that bear the burden they vii
 never grant forgiveness"
 -'The Dead King" a tribute to Kinf Edward has been widely heralded particularly by French critics. as successful new departure in verse form.
 '-The City of Brass" a poem writer over seven years ago gives an accoun of the condition to which socialism re duces a nation. It contains the line Out of the sea rose a sign-out o Heaven a terror"-a line which wa. ridiculed by the British press at tn time, as it appeared in 1911. One pa per, in fact, ran a comic illustration showing the sea full of submarine and the sky full of aeroplanes whicl was thought at the time to be a yer grotesque and humorous conception.
 For All We Have and Are'' is poem which as everyone knows, mad q stir and was widely quoted whel first printed in 1914. Although tn comment was for the most part favor able. there was an insistent criticism that the poem was "too serious for tn needs of the case" This criticism seemed to be addressed more particu larly to the closing verse, which runs No easy hope or lies
 Shall bring us to our goal,
 But iron sacrifice
 of body, will and soul.
 There is but one task for all
 One life for each to give.
 Who stands if Freedom fall
 Who dies if England live?"
 This was then thought to be a poeti e&aggeration of the actual situation.
 "The Choice" is addressed to tn American spirit which led us to ente the war in 1917, and it's concludin lines:
 "To the spirit that moves in Man,
 On whom all worlds depend.
 Be Glory since our world began
 And service 10 the end!"
 Are nothing more nor less than a mod ern version Of the 'Doxology."
 THE VILLAGE" is another treatis on Russian conditions by Ernest Pool. published by the Macmillan Compan, lt is equal in power and revelation | The Dark People" recently reviewe in these columns. although presentin the peasantry in a vastly differer light. In this volume, Poole narrate the experience of actually living in peasant village for a sufficient lengt of time to absorb their problems an digest them in such a way as to unfol them to us in so simple manner as { make US feel as though we. too, Ina rusticated with him amidst those bull bling conditions that are fermentin inc