The New York herald., 1922-09-24

1nnuenQ0. 1t reads. "Orther1S, being
neither menial nor an American, had
no excuse for yelping" The villain OF
'The Ballad of Fultah Fishers Boarding
House" was pure American. "And there
was Salem Hardiecker, lean Bostonian
he." Then there is the aforementioned
"A Matter of Fact" Ntelling of the sea
serpent. keller tripled-headed his ac-
count, talked about our gallant captain
and wound up with an allusion to Ameri-
can enterprise in that it was a citizen of
Dayton, Ohio, that had seen the sea SER
pent. This sort of thing would have dis
credited the Creation, much more mere
sea tale, but as a specimen of the picture
writing of half civilized people it was
very interesting" The English journalist
of the tale comments: Don't be an ass,
Keller. Remember, I'm seven hundred
years your senior, and what your grand
children may learn five hundred years
hence / learned from my grandfathers
about five hundred years ago. You won't
do it, because you can't"
TN the exuberance OF youth the Kipling
L of thirty-odd years ago paid his trib-
ute to various American cities besides
New York which moved him to his famous
expression, What heavenly Loot" in par
aphrase of old Blucher's 'Was fur plum
der" "San Francisco is mad city, in
habited fofAhe most part by perfectly in
sane people, whose women are of a re-
markable beauty" OF Chicago: Il have
struck cfty-a real city-and they call
it Chicago. +. Having seen it, /
urgently desire never to see it again. 1t
is inhabited by savages" He made the
American language" butt as joyously
and irresponsibly as any English music
hall comedian. "The American has no
language. He is dialect, slang, accent" /"
and so forth. Later in 1.-The INaulakha, -
which he wrote IN collaboration with an
American, the late Wollcott Balestier, he
makes the Maharajah say of the Amer
lean hero, Tarvin: "Thy friend here
speaks such English as 1 never knew"
Later on he alludes to the irresponsible
race who stride booted into the council
halls of kings and demand concessions for
oil boring from Araccan to Peshun."
which Is merely prose expression of
Or sombre-drunk, at mine or mart,
He dubs his dreary brethren kings.
THEN there is "a Walking Delegate" !"
L in which in the guise of Vermont
farmer, Kipling endeavored to distinguish
between the various types from various
parts of the country. Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus and most of the horses on the
farm reflect something of the domesticity
of gray New England. There are also
strangers. State and city pride is prev
alent. The city element is represented
in Mufdoon, the ex-car horse, born in
Iowa, but typical New Yorker, swearing
by the city of his adoption. ANY horse
dat knows beans gifts outer Kansas before
dey Grips his shoes. De Belt Line stables
amt no Hoffman House, but dere Wander
bits 'longside eff Kansas" There is
Tweezy, a type of the old South, ever the
most courteous of horses. loyal to his
allegiance to the Blue Grass region of
Kentucky. Excuse me, sub, but unless
have been misinfohmed, most of yo'
prominent siahs, sub, are impo'ted from
Kentucky, and I'm from Paduky"' Then
there is the blatant Boney from Kansas
with his: Kansas, sir, needs no adver-
tisement. Native sons rely on themselves
and their sires. What the horses of
Kansas think to-day the horses of