Although religion and philosophy and life in its various moods and aspects inspire many of these poems such as The higher life, Eternity, Swedenborg, Sadness, A love lyric, Joy, Life’s triumph, most of them are out-of-door and nature pieces and offer a long list of flowers and birds in sonnet and short lyric form.
“Mr Kip treads a little heavier in the fields and woodlands after the fancies of birds and flowers than does Mr John Russel McCarthy, but his haunts are more extended and his intimacies are more numerous.” W. S. B.
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KIPLING, RUDYARD. Letters of travel. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday 910
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In this volume are brought together sketches of travel written between 1892 and 1913. They follow the letters written between 1887 and 1889 published in “From sea to sea.” The new volume is composed of three sections. The first, “From tideway to tideway,” opens with a New England sketch, In sight of Monadnock, and contains other papers written in the United States, in Canada and the East. Letters to the family, dated 1907, is a series of letters from Canada. Egypt of the magicians, the third section, is a series of seven sketches written in 1913.
“All notebook literature produces the same effect of fatigue and obstacle, as if there dropped across the path of the mind some block of alien matter which must be removed or assimilated before one can go on with the true process of reading. The more vivid the note the greater the obstruction.” V. W.
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