Kipling is living the strenuous life. He has frankly
abandoned story telling, and is using his complete and powerful armory
in the interests of patriotic zeal."
Whatever may be the final judgment of the world concerning Kipling's
claim to literary genius, the young student may rest assured that
there is no one in England who can compare with this strenuous and
versatile writer. He is original and powerful, interesting and
realistic. He is a lover of the men who earn their bread by the sweat
of their faces and a despiser of "flannelled fools." He lacks the
day-dreams of Stevenson and preaches from every housetop the gospel of
virile, acting morality. Many of his readers have criticised adversely
his spiritual teachings, because of the furious energy with which he
denounces an apathetic religion and eulogizes the person who works
with all his might, day after day, for the highest he knows and never
fears the day of death and judgment.
GENERAL REFERENCES
_The Book of the Short Story_, Alexander Jessup.
_The Short Story in English_, Henry Seidel Canby.
_Bibliography of Kipling's Works_, Eugene P, Saxton.
"Contradictory Elements in Rudyard Kipling," _Current Literature_, 44:
274.
"Where Kipling Stands," _Bookman_, 29: 120-122.
"Are there two Kiplings?" _Cosmopolitan_, 31: 653-660.
"Literary Style of Kipling," _Lippincott_, 73: 99-103.
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