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THE EMIGRATION

QUESTION

man in the very old tweed suit and dilapidated shoot- ing-hat, had been walking meditatively along the sum mer lane. Now he stopped as if the man in the car had hit him with something. His, old, rough Scotch ter- rier, grubby from many ditch explorations, also stop- ped. They seemed to be frozen, less by astonishment. than by an enormous indig- nation.

Then the spare, Amall man, uftering some hard words in an audible voice to no one in particu- lar, set his plasses more firmly on his combative nose, turned aside. and clambered

A hedged fence, The terrier found a hole, between roots and followed.

And off they both wont over ploughed land, heading for the shadowy, silent downs, whence towny man In touring cars could not pursue.

· That was my last sight of Rud- yard Kipling. I was taking a favourite canter over the Sussex downs and came upon this scene by chance over the brow of a crest.

RUDYARD KIPLING AND WIFE.

For him, the utter peace he longed for.

leave him alone.

of

The unfortunato author even discovered not long ago that his tradesmon thought his small cheques in discharge of his ac- count were worth more framed and traded to autograph hunters, than put through the bank. After that he paid in cash.

Kipling never was celebrated for mild and amiable tempera- munt. Ho

nover sulforéd fools

gladly,

His hatred for the froth and folly of much of post-war life.. and the cheapness and songation- allam and ostentation he saw all about him, the blaring vulgarity of the new cities, ho inherited, no doubt from his Nonconformist ancestry.

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BOT his grandfathers were Methodist preachers. The cult of endeavour, courage, sound. work and it-on-it grit, plus a tough and tenacious character, werd in the very marrow and fibre of the tiny white-faced English boy who passed his curly years in crowded. chattering Lahore, a great British military and administrative cen- tre, capital of the Punjab, a focus point for the infinitely varied life of India, where his father, John Lockwood Kipling, was art direc tor and eurator of the museum..

On their way home to put young Rudyard to school in England, the elder Kipling succumbed to the weather, and went below. There. he was disturbed by an alarmed ship's officer who banged on his. door and shouted. "Mr. Kipling./ he was disturbed by an alarmed ship's officer who banged on his door and shouted. "Mr. Kipling, your boy has climbed out on the yard arm. If he lets go, lie's done."

"Yes, but he won't let go," sighed Kipling senior; and stayed where he was.

ot

I don't recollect seeing a car in that

Hitle lane near POOR Kipling! They would not In 1985 he seemed to belong grassy

It was at school that Kipling definitely to England's past, to learnt the art of story-telling. He The fact that unemployment Kipling's Burwash house before.

True, he was composing his that England that passed away rend everything, including the showa a marked decrease in Aus-

juvenilia at the age of

for ever in the maelstrom of the headmaster's and 18-the

chaplain's librarica. In the dormitory present market price tralia has once again raised the

"Job's Freat war.

In Wife" and "Thoughts of a Felon NOTES OF THE DAY Mr Excuting the chefs values was ahead of his time. He yarns. When his memory-which 1900 his scale of human night he was called upon to tell question of the possibility of a

d'ocurres of that boyish phase, anticipated. But in his last years for the written word was prodi- resumption of Immigration. ANXIOUS DAYS

would be worth knowing at 26 he no longer anticipated. Read- gious-gave out, he had to invent The Australian Minister of In-

he was acclaimed a genius by the ing him, one looks back.

He revived the school magazine, and wrote four-fths of the con- He showed no signs of perceiv- tonta, verse and prose, "War is terior thinks that the moment is

Anxious cyca, not only through-publie and the best-seller of them ut the length and breadth of the by the publishers. He was 70 ing the rising of the tide of world no theme at all," he declared in propitious for a discussion of the British Empire, but the wide

inst month,

change around the castle in which those days; and composed an subject; but he has been prompt- world over, are scanning the news enchanted to see his first editions His recent tales were of an old the style was so turgid and ponti- But all the same, he cannot be his genfus has entrenched itself. essay on the abolition of war. But ly answered by the Premiers of bulletins these days for the latest rench "old master" prices, and the world still. He stayed, resolute deal that the master who had to Western Australia and Victoria, ews of His Majesty the King, collectors fighting for possession ly, on the other side of the divide. read it flung the manuscript at

whose sudden illness is causing so of his early works, judging their one of whom contends that the much concern. Coming

This largely explains why he is the casayist's head. so soon value on the basis of their rarity the most eagerly collected of all advocates of immigration are after the Silver Jubilee celebra and caring nothing about their re- contemporary authors. A pirated stories which were to make him The first of those versos and For two edition of one of his early books rich and famous not familiar with conditions, tions, when His Majesty seemed to lative literary merit.

decades he has avoided interviews, published in Santiago did not sell, when he was a sub reporter on were written whilst the other says that the recurrence of the King's bronchial teases.

have taken a new lease of life, the celebrity hunters and publle hus and the publisher ultimately sold the Civil and Military Gazette at first duty of the States is to find trouble has cast a gloom over the

the remainders at five cents a klio Lahore, and a sub-editor on its a remedy for the workless. In Empire, but all unite in the home in the theatre, at literary gather. Sotheroy's in London for £200. that he used to splash himself Galsworthy is frequently seen to get rid of them. The other day rival, The Pioneer, at Allahabad.

copy of that book Bold

at He wrote so fast and so absorbed- that their beloved raler will come inge, and the meetings of certain view of these statements, it is of

through his sickness and be humanitarian societies. Arnold He scribbled a "Ballad of the with Ink, to the anger of his interest to take note of a recent spared for many years to come. Bennett goes about as much-as-a-Ski for a fellow guest in a Swiss editor, who liked to see his discussion on the subject in the The news from Home indicates fashionable portrait painter. H. Alpine hotel a quarter of a cen- editorial staff spotless in their

on the tropical whites. British House of Commons. once again the deep love of his G. Wells is positively gregarious, tury ago--elght lines when a motion was put forward monarch and their solid attach-ready to jump into the papers or 1897. It went

subjects for their

He celebrated his majority by stricken Bernard Shaw is one of London's title page of a tauchnitz edition

familiar sights and is always of his "Seven Seas" of persuading a

into the auction publish his "Departmental Dit- Bombay firm to that the time had arrived for ment to the Throne, whilst the onto the platform in any contro- room in 1928 and fetched a fat iles." They paid him 500 rupees, steps to be taken to survey the sympathetic messages from manyversy. Even J. M. Barris is some aum.

which he spent on a shooting trip. possibilities of restarting emi-foreign lands serve to show how times accessible and has a London

Every Acrap

of the Kipling That book has since brought widespread the popularity of home.

writing is worth money to-day, author and publisher. n round gration within the Empire. King George is. In this critical!) But though every Englishman His typewriten manuscripts with £25,000 in royalties. It still One speaker asserted that Aus- hour, feelings of rasl sympathy knew Kipling's name, few could marginal corrections are highly. Agures in the list of Kipling's very books which sell an aggregate of tralia and Canadà should each for Her Majesty the Queen and tell you where he lived, and fower prized by collectors. The

chits he signed for drinks on 200,000 copies year in and year the Royal still have ever, set oyes on him. have a population of a hundred all the members of

board ships. have been put on the out. Family are universally felt. The Occasionally he went to London market and sold.

After his "Plain Tales from the millions, instead of a few mil-latest bulletins engender the hope from the depths of Sussex for u Season function-a Royal Garden

There is even a Kipling Society, Hilla" and "Soldiers Three" he lions, as at present; while an that His Majesty may be able to Party, the annual cricket match with a regular Journal, a member- went on a world tour. His short other declared that if he were a sirmount the sickness with which between Eton and Harrow, the ship of 5,000 or so, and Major stories presently won him fame Dictator he would insist on the he he been stricken, and Hong two great public schools,, a pole General L. C. Dunsterville, as its all over the world. He married kong, in common with all parts of match at Hurlingham, a small president. (But when the Society an American girl, Bilas Baleatier. training in England of 20,000 the Empire, will fervently pray dinner party given by his cousin. sent him greetings, Kipling Lailed

Premier Baldwin. workers, with their wives and that this will be so.

He went out to the South Afri But in town he 'shunned the

can War after his return from families, with a view to fitting | —

the United States, gathered much fashionable hotel-restaurant, and WHEN, prosperous and famous, material them for farming overseas. Government. If emigration is stayed at a small, old-fashioned he retired to Rottingdean, travelled down to Cape Town on a

for tales and articles,. The Government attitude on the to be resumed on anything like place in a quiet backwater off Pic- that picturesque little village at Hospital train and in three days cadilly. Occasionally one found the foot of his beloved Sussex wrote. 600 letters home for the subject is one which will com- a large scale, steps will have to him in one of his two clube, the downs, he thought he was safe, wounded Temmies. mand general approval, namely, be taken to ensure that the right learned Athenaeum or the Tory The railway stopped seven miles

Carlton.

It was a period of intensive pro- away. No movie theatre in Hot duction. His books came out at that to regard emigration as a type of individual is sent over-

tingdean then. Few visitors at the rate of ont means of relieving unemploy-seas. The Premier of Western

the one inn.

a year, and SINCE. he nearly died of pneu ment at Home is likely to pre- Australia has stated that the monin in 1926 he sought the But some fashionable folk dis-

a literary event and sold enor- judice the question in the eyes emigrants must have enough sun cach winter until this one, covered this quiet backwater. It mously. A pre-war world hungry for the Kipling glamour and which killed him, in some spot became A of overseas Governments; it capital to enable them to make favoured by the English public jaunt for smart Bohemia. It got colour and inagic could not get would be disastrous if emigra- their way in the uninhabited school educated upper-middle a lot of publicity. Still protected enough of those books with the

class to which he belonged and by high ivy-covered walls around head of an

olephant and the tion reduced unemployment in regions where they are most which he revered in Egypt, or his domain, Kipling stood it for awastika opposite the title page.

The machine was slowing down Britain but increased it in the needed. In times past, too many North Africa, the West Indies or some time.

by 1910. Last year it was practical- Dominions. What the Govern- emigrants have gone to Aus-

But then motor-coaches took the the Argentine.

ly nil. He was, of course, a Die-Hard roads, bringing a now class of ment is doing in the matter is to tralia and settled in the towns, Tory, a staunch Imperialist who trapper who thought nothing of set up an Empire Settlement there to become destitute in an had no patience with radicals: stopping the monster outside IPLING'S books will last: the

ΚΙ Board, composed of eight mem overcrowded market. But Aus- His pungent politics were too hapings house, and leaning over

Imperishable magle of "The bers, of whom three will be tralia, and Canada as well; can always in office from 1904 on ly, and eating things, and some Peok's Hill tales caught

much for the Asquithian Liborals the ivy-clad wall, and talking.loud-Brunhwood Boy the Puck or officials from the Government, find plenty of room for the man to the great war and although times dropping paper inside. dreams over the sun-soaked, windy The unofficial members are to be who is acquainted with farming the great singer of British im-iping fled to the remoter village downs, the creed of the men of marked ability, and the and is willing to go outside the perialism was awarded the Nobel of Burwash.

Folomn-woep-of-the Recreions But even here he did not find al", the charm and wonder of Board will advise the Secretary big towns. This lends point to make him Poet Laureate was pass the utter peace he longed for those "Jungle Books" that Kipling Prize in 1906, an opportunity, to of State on specific proposals for the idea that mon destined for the great slager of British Im- People from, the cities who had wrote for his son, John. schemes of emigration find mat-overseus should receive some perialism was awarded the Nobel fallen under the Kipling spell- John Kipling 18 dead. On the ters relating to overseas settle-training beforehand. For such prize in 1906, an opportunity to not a few Americans among them village green of Burwash

make him Poet Laureate was pass went by car to look at Kipling's monument commemorates him ment. It is not intended that men there are plenty of op-ed over by the government of the retreat; and then they hung about slong with the other men of the the Board shall actually die portunities, provided they have day in favour of the entirely the lanes for a sight of him, and old hamlet who went out to the tribute fünds, but it wil çertain- a little capital with which to harmless and' academic Dr. bought drinks in the local lan and war. and never came

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