“In his description readers will find that beauty of language and those inimitable touches of humor that are Kipling’s own.” G. C.
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“As always in work of this kind by Mr Kipling, what holds us most is his power of interpretation. He is essentially the man who makes us see things and understand things.”
+ Spec 124:828 Je 19 ’20 1500w
“Where Mr Kipling allows his vigorous mind to absorb the surface aspects of a scene, he is at his best, for then the artist in him is congenially employed. In interpretation he is often amiss, as well as inevitably out of date.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 1800w
“His patriotism, which in other works has enriched the language with poems and sketches of character, tender and valiant, is apt in this book to take, not a positive, but a negative form. It is his patriotism, his love for England—a love intensified and made jealous by a recognition of all she lost when her American colonies seceded—that leads him to denounce New York as ‘the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance.’... But how persuasive he can be when he is not—if we may say it without offence—cross!”
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KIRBY, ELIZABETH. Adorable dreamer. *$1.90 (3c) Doran
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