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[Frontispiece: Rudyard Kipling]
RUDYARD KIPLING
By
JOHN PALMER
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
First Published in 1915
CONTENTS
| I. | INTRODUCTION |
| II. | SIMLA |
| III. | THE SAHIB |
| IV. | NATIVE INDIA |
| V. | SOLDIERS THREE |
| VI. | THE DAY'S WORK |
| VII. | THE FINER GRAIN |
| VIII. | THE POEMS |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| INDEX |
I
INTRODUCTION
There is a tale of Mr Kipling which relates how Eustace Cleever, acelebrated novelist, came to the rooms of a young subaltern and hiscompanions who were giving an account of themselves. Eustace Cleeverwas a literary man, and was greatly impressed when he learned that oneof the company, who was under twenty-five and was called the Infant,had killed people somewhere in Burma. He was suddenly caught by animmense enthusiasm for the active l
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