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HUMOROUS POEMS OF INDIAN OFFICIALDOM.
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“They reflect with light gaiety the thoughts and feelings of actual men and women, and are true as well as clever.... Mr. Kipling achieves the feat of making Anglo-Indian society flirt and intrigue visibly before our eyes.... His book gives hope of a new literary star of no mean magnitude rising in the east.”—Sir W. W. Hunter in The Academy.
“As for that terrible, scathing piece, “The Story of Uriah,” we know of nothing with which to compare it, and one cannot help the wretched feeling that it is true.... ‘In Spring Time’ is the most pathetic lament of an exile we know in modern poetry.”—Graphic.
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