“For a writer who has been in so many far-separated parts of the world, and who is himself more or less of a cosmopolite, Kipling develops a curious air of foreign complacency and self-satisfaction in his description of places and people strange to his eyes and mind.”
+ − Boston Transcript p8 Je 5 ’20 1350w
“Those written in 1913 reveal the same brisk and cocky adolescence as the group clattered off on the typewriter twenty-five years ago in America. These American records are precisely in the vein of ‘From sea to sea’; they suggest, in their peculiar preoccupation with the outsides of things, a somewhat rudimentary intellect and a highly over-stimulated nervous system.”
− Freeman 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 550w
“The pictures of Japan are full of color; the pictures of Egypt are full of age and mystery; the pictures of Canada are full of strength and freshness, but the very best of all is the winter scene ‘In sight of Monadnock.’”
+ Ind 103:318 S 11 ’20 400w New Repub 23:155 Je 30 ’20 1050w
“What is not a little curious is that the letters of 1892 are as brisk and as brilliant, as firmly planned and as effectively phrased as the letters of 1913, written more than a score of years later. In all these letters there is the same keen appreciation of nature and the same contagious interest in human nature. If he lacks understanding anywhere in his voyaging, if he is to a certain extent unsympathetic, not to go so far as to hint that he is intolerant, it is in the United States and more particularly in New York.” Brander Matthews
+ − N Y Times 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1300w
“Mr Kipling is here, as always, the courier of empire.... He never filches a quarter-hour from his responsibilities. To nurse a pleasant thought, to dally with it, to make it a companion and a playfellow, these are levities for the uncommitted or uncommissioned man. He is humorous with despatch, he is even pathetic with expedition.”
+ − Review 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 1200w