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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21,

KIPLING THE MAN-AN APPRECIATION

HIS EARLY YOUTH RECALLED

In Retirement At 62

BY C. PARRICK THOMPSON

The spare, brown, small man in

HIS PIRATED BOOK

1936

tre, capital of the Punjab, a focun- In 1928 he seems to belong de-point for the infinitely varied life the very old tweed suit and dila-finitely to England's past, to that of India. where his father, Jonu

and curator of the muRQUIN pidated shooting-hat, had been England that passed away for ever | Leckwood Kipling, was art director in the maelstrom of the great war. walking meditatively along the

On their way home to put young. In 1900 his scale of human values į summer lane. Now he stopped as

He anti-Rudyari to school in England, thu was ahead of his time. If the man in the car had hit hlin with something. His old,rough icipated. He no longer anticipazca.elder Kipling succumbed to the Scotch terrier, grubby from many Reading him, one looks back, ditch explorations, also stopped. They seemed to be frozen, less by astonishment than by an enormous indignation.

He shows no signs of perceiving the rising of the tide of world change around the castle in whten This genius has entrenched itselt, His tales are of an old world still He stays, resolutely, on the other

Then the spare, brown small. man, uttering some hard words in an audible voice to no one in par-side of the divide." ticular, set his glasses more Armly on his combative nose, turned aside and clambered a hedged fence. The terrier found a hole between roots and followed.

And off they both went over ploughed land, heading for the shadowy. silent

downs, whence towny men in touring cars could not pursue

Every scrap of the 'Kipling' writ ing is worth money to-day. His typewritten, manuscripts with mar- ginal corrections are highly-prized The very chits he by collectors.

weather, and went below. There disturbed by an alarmed he was ship's offer who banged on his door and shouted. "Mr. Kipling, your boy has climbed out on the If he let's go, be's yard arm done"

"Yes, but he won't let go,” sign- stayed ed Kipling senior; and where he wIS,

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at school that Kipling learnt the art of story-telling. He read everything, including the headmaster's and chaplain's - braries. In the dormitory at night he was called upon to tell yarns. When his memory-which for, the written word was prodigious-gave out, he had to invent.

He revived the school magazine, and wrote fourffths of the con-

This largely explains why he is the most eagerly collected of all

A pirated. It was contemporary authors. edition of one of his early books published in Santiago did not sell, and the publisher ultimately sold the remainders at five cents a kilo to get rid of them. The other day a copy of that book sold at So- therby's in London for 000 dollars.

He scribbed a "Ballad of the gk" That was my last sight of Rud- yard Kipling. I was taking a fa- for a fellow guest in a Swiss Alpine vourite canter over the Sussex hotel 18 years ago-eight lines on downs and came upon this scene the title page of a tauchnitz edients, verse and prose. "War is no by chance over the brow of a crest. tion of his "Seven, Seas" of 1897, theme at all," be declared in those the abolition of war. But the style I don't recollect seeing a car in It comes into the auction room in days; and composed an essay D that, grassy little lane near Kip-1928 and fetches a fat sum,

was so turgid and pontifical that who had to read it ling's Burwash house before.

Poor Kipling! They won't leave

the master flung the manuscript as the es- him alone.

of those verses and The first sayist's head.

rich and fmpus were stories which were to make him

when he was a sub-reporter on the "Civil and Military Gazette" at

rival, "The Planeer," at Allahabad. Lahore, and a sub-editor on its

He wrote so fast and so absorbedly that he used to splash himself with ink, the anger of his editor, who likes to see his editorial staf Little wonder that the retiring spotless in their tropical whites

He celebrated his majority by singer of England's magic and em- pire glory shudders and retires into persuading a Bombay firm to pub- is shell more closely than Queenish him "Departmental Ditties." Victoria did in the phase when They paid him 500 rupees, which people of England began to mutter he spent on a shooting trip. That republican sentiments because they never saw their queen"

True, he was composing his ju- venilla at the age of 13-the pre-

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There is even a Kipling Society, of that boyish phase, would be worth knowing-at 26 he was ac18 months old, with a regular claimed a genius by the public and Journal, a membership of 5.000 or the best-seller of them all by the so, and Major-General L, C. Trans- publishers; and now he is 62 and terville, as its president. (But when has been resolutely avoiding inter- the Society sent him greetings, viewers, celebrity hunters, fashion-Kipling failed to answer them). able hostesses and public occasions for the last decade and a half.

But all the same, he cannot be enchanted to see his arst editions reach old master" prices, and the $10,40 collectors Lighting for possession of his early works, judging their value on the basis of their rarity and caring nothing about their relative literary merit.

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When, prosperous and famous, he retired to Rottingdean, that picturesque little village at the foot of his beloved Sussex downs, he thought he was safe. The railway

KEEPS IN THE BACKGROUND

Still less does he like elevated in his lifetime to the status of a sort stopped seven miles away. No mo- of monument to himself, a nation-vie theatre in Rottingdean then al relle or curiousity, something to Few visitors at the one inn. be "done", like Westminster Abbey or Shakespeare's birthplace. Ir some sense he has only himself to blame.

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village green of Burwash a menu- The Greatest Tribute

book has since brought author and publisher' a round 100,000 dollars in royalties. It will figures in the

of the old list of Kipling's books which sell |ment commemorates him along an aggregate of 200,000 copies year with the other men

hamlet who went out to the war, in and year out.

and never came back, Kipling's son was 18 when the war blast

He had only been a year a subal- caught him and obliterated him. tern in the Irish Guards-whose history Kipling subsequently wrote. That was the final drop in Kip- of sorrow, His little ling's cup daughter died while he was on his American tour. He himself lay in the next room at the time. He has been three times so close to the next world tha; he might have heard the murmur of Death's

After his "Plain Tales from the and "Soldiers Three" he Hills"

stories presently won him fame all came on a world tour. His short

over the world. He married an American girl, Miss Balestier.

He went out to the South African war after his return from the United States, gathered much ma- for tales and articles,

But some fashionable folk dis

It covered this quiet backwater. became a favourite week-end jaunt for smart Bohemia. It got a interie

of publicity. Still protected by travelled down to Cape Town on a high ivy-covered walls around his Hospital train and in three days for the domain. Kipling stood it for wrote 800 letters home

wounded Tommies. time.

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Perhaps that is one of the res sons why, his tide of productivity is at low ebb, he retains unimpair- ed the second sight of the poet and sees further into things than most men.

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To Kipling

Tributes to

London, Jan. 20. the late Rudyard Kipling are flowing in from world- wide personalities, but the greatest tribute given was from the West- minster Abbey in that Kipling-will "Poet's Corner," in where such great writers like be buried in

Charles Dickens, Burns, Ruskin,

Ruskin were interred.

The last literary man buried in Westminster Abbey was Thomas Hardy Eenga.

MR. KEPLING TO BE BURIED AT POET'S CORNER

London, Jan. 19. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, poet and caused author whose death has world-wide grief. will be buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey at noon on Thursday

It seems Router.

Galsworthy is frequently seen in the theatre, at literary gatherings, and the meetings of certain hu- manitarian societies. Arnold Ben- nett goes as much as a fashionable

it was a period of intensive pro-wings, But then motor-coaches took the portrait painter. H, G. Wells la positively gregarious Bernard roads, bringing a new class of trip-duction. His books came out at the rate of one and two a year, and Shaw is one of London's familiar per who thought nothing of stop- sights and is always ready to jumping the monster outside Kipling each one was a literary event and into the papers or onto the plat house, and leaning over the iv-acid enormously. A pre-war world form in any controversy. Even J. clad wall, and talking soul, and hungry for the Kipling glamour M. Berrie is sometimes accessible eating things, and sometime dru and colour and magic could not

And now he thinks less of new and has a London home.

ping paper inside. Kipling fled to

get enough of those books with the head of an elephant and the works than of the fate of the tales But though every Englishman the remoter village of Burwash,

he had hammered into bronze on knows Kipling's name, few can tell where the motor-coaches don't go swastika opposite the title page.

the literary history of the English The machine was slowing down 321.70 you where he lives, and fewer still-yet “.....”

race... But even here he has not found by 1910. Now the output is small.

Aware have ever set eyes on him.

that quite a dozen Occasionally he comes to London the utter peace he longs for Peor Also, we have the measure of the

writers" have achieved inimoral- from the depths of Sussex for a ple from the cities who have fall. Kipling genius.

past 2,500 years, he Seacon function-a Royal Garden en under the Kipling spell--not a. Els sense of character, his feelity in the Party, the annual cricket match few Americang among them-wings for atmosphere, his appre-wonders truly whether he will between Eton and Harrow, the two come in by car and look at Kip-ciation of the permanent values of make a thirteenth.

But worth while to him, and he said great publicschoots, a polo match | linga retreat: it then they hang life-all remain invitiated. at Hurlingham, a small dinner about the lanes for a night of him, the old breathlessness and the old as much to the Royal Society of party given by his cousin, Premier and buy drinks in the local inn and surprise have gone. The poet's Baldwin.

ask questions about the pont. In town he shuns tan fashionable The unfortunate author hotel-restaurant, and stays at a discovered not long ago that his small thought him. small, old-fashioned place in a tradesmen quiet backwater of Piccadilly, cheques in discharge of his ac- Occasionally one finds him in one count were worth more framed and of his two clubs, the learned traded to autograph hunters, then Athenaeum or the Tory Carlton put through the bank. He pays in

Winters now (since he nearly cash now.

Kipling never was celebrated for died of pneumonia) he seeks the sun in some spot favoured by the mild and amiable temperament. English public-school educated up- He never suffered fools gladly, and per-middle class to which he be- now he takes them hard. longs, and which he revered-in Egypt, or North Atries, the West Indies or the - Argentine.

He 13, of course, & Die-Hard Tory, a staunch Imperialist who has no patience with radicals. His pungent politics were too much for the Asquithian Liberals always in office from 1904 on to the great war--and although the great sin cer of British, imperialism was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1908,

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Literature at their centenary ban- quet on a hot summer's night two seara backar i

AUSSIES' GOOD SCORE

Bloemfontein, Jan, 20.

mental curiosity about the world seems to be satisded. He will not

He had written his speech. The again dazzle us with novelties of

The match between Australia and technique, give us glimpses of new phrases slipped out in neat lengths

set the of carefully hammered bronze the Crange Free State ended in the and marvellous worlds, English world singing with his There was a flash of the old Kip Aussies scoring 361 for: 4 wickets ling as he said of Jonothan' Swift's (declared). The Australian's first Jungle songs.

He is sun, however, the consum- "Gulliver's Travels," that nerce innings resulted in a total score mate craftsman, with no use for and dreadful testamens of the sum of 145, and the Orange Free State's theory and contemptuous of "art" preme ironist against his kind, total was 88,

Grimmett captured 5 wickets for There are, he says, fifty ultimate that "It is like tuning down the comedies and tragedies to which stare of a volcano to light a child 25, O'Reilly 4 for 38.

O'Brien scored 109 and McCabe to bed.”

"The utmost a writer can hope | 112– is that there may survive of work a fraction good enough to be drawn upon later, to uphold or em- belllah some ancient truth restated or some, old delight reborn,"

the gods mercifully limit "human action and suffering.

"Fetion began when some man wanted a story about another man it developed when another." man told stories about a woman,”

His hatred for the froth and folly of much of post-war life, and the cheapness and sensationalinn and ostentation he sees all about him, the haring vulgarity of the new cities, he inherits, no doubt WORKS WILL LAST

Kipling's books will last: the im- from fits Nonconformist ancestry

Both his grandfathers were Met perishable magic of "The Brush hodist preachers, The enit of one wood Boy," the Pack of Pook's deavour, courage, sound work and Hill" tales caught in dreams over bit-on-it grit, plus a truth and the sun-soaked, windy downs, the tenacious character, were in the creed of "If the solemn sweep an opportunity to make him Poet very marrow and abre of the siny of the "Recessional," the charm Laureate was passed over by the white-faced English boy who puas and wonder of those Jungle government of the day in favour of ed his early years in crowded. Books" that Kipling wrote for his the entirely harmless and academic chattering Lahore, a great British son, John.

John Kipling 15 dead. On the od, suffered. -milltary and administrative, con“, Dr. Bridges,

The white-faced boy of Lahore had other dreams, the English schoolboy had other thoughts, the Anglo-Indian sub-editor had per hape other aspirations the me Cessful writer of 30 settling down to a new and full life with his young American wire had possibly But Kipling has lived, triumph- more robust hopes.

Beuter.

SHANGHAI APPEAL CASE

Shanghat, Jan. 20. The Full Court sustained in appeal by William Henry Spencer

his conviction for forgery based on two altered banknotes found in his coat pocket, the cont

son besides the owner. having been used by another per-

a dismissed. — Bill Bosster,

The case.