Forty-third Thousand
THE DAY'S WORK
By RUDYARD KIPLING
CONTENTS
The Bridgebuilders—A Walking Delegate—The Ship that Found Herself—The Tomb of his Ancestors—-The Devil and the Deep Sea—William the Conqueror—007—The Maltese Cat—Bread upon the Waters—An Error of the Fourth Dimension—My Sunday at Home—The Brushwood Boy
ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—"This new batch of Mr. Kipling's short stories is splendid work. Among the thirteen there are included at least five of his very finest.... Speaking for ourselves, we have read The Day's Work with more pleasure than we have derived from anything of Mr. Kipling's since the Jungle Book.... It is in the Findlaysons, and the Scotts, and the Cottars, and the 'Williams,' that Mr. Kipling's true greatness lies. These are creations that make one feel pleased and proud that we are also English. What greater honour could there be to an English writer?"
TIMES.—"The book, take it altogether, will add to Mr. Kipling's high reputation both on land and by sea."
DAILY NEWS.—"They have all his strength."
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"If The Day's Work will not add to the author's reputation in this kind of work, which, indeed, might be difficult, it at all events will not detract from it. There is no lack of spirit and power; the same easy mastery of technical details; the same broad sympathy with the English-speaking race, wherever their life-tasks may lie. The style is throughout Kipling's own—terse, nervous, often rugged, always direct and workmanlike, the true reflection of Mr. Kipling's own genius."
MORNING POST.—"The book is so varied, so full of colour and life from end to end, that few who read the first two or three stories will lay it down till they have read the last."