"Steam Tactics "

The Kipling Journal.

The Organ of the Kipling Society.

QUARTERLY                       No. 30                           JUNE,  1934

Contents.

Plate: " Steam Tactics."
News and Notes      ......     33          Reviews and New Books..     ..    66

Kipling and His Works from                    Kipling Prices Current   ..     ..    67

a French Point of View    42

Secretary s Announcements  ..    68
Kipling and the Indian Soldier    47

The Annual Conference

and Luncheon    53

News and Notes.

OUR illustration in this issue gives a view of the locality of the clos-
ing scene of "Steam Tactics" ("Traffics and Discoveries"):—
" She bored through a mass of crackling brushwood, and
emerged into an upward sloping fern-glade fenced with woods so virgin,
so untouched, that William Rufus might have ridden off as we entered.
We climbed out of the violet-purple shadows towards the upland where
the last of day lingered. . . . England is a most marvellous country,
but one is not, till one knows the eccentricities of large landowners
trained to accept kangaroos, zebras or beavers as part of its landscape."
The glade shown in our picture is known as the American Garden at
Leonardslee near Horsham, the seat of Sir E. G. Loder, who, as Mr.
Brabant tells us in his delightful " Rambles in Sussex," published by
Messrs. Methuen & Co., " made some interesting experiments in the
acclimatisation of foreign animals." We read here that " four of
these (hammerponds) lie in one wooded ravine, and have been turned
into a miniature lake-land."

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The Fourth Meeting of the Session was held on April 18th, 1934, at
8.30 p.m. at the Rembrandt Rooms, S.W.7., Lady Cunynghame in the
Chair.     A large and enthusiastic audience of over 150—a record—gave a

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hearty greeting to M. Andre Maurois when he appeared on the platform
to lecture on " Kipling and his Works from a French Point of View."
Introducing the lecturer, Lady Cunynghame said:—" My first duty is
to express our regret that H.E. the French Ambassador, M. Corbin, is
unable to be with us, owing to a previous engagement; M. Pierre
Saffroy is here to represent him. On behalf of the Members of the
Kipling Society we want it to be realised how greatly we appreciate
having M. Maurois with us this evening. He will be dealing with Kip-
ling's work from a French point of view, and it is extraordinarily
interesting to have these two authors thus meeting. Few English
authors have so interested the French as Kipling. His first impres-
sions date from the age of 12 when, in 1878, he went to the Paris
Exhibition with his father; in " Souvenirs of France " we see how he
began in early days to fall in love with France and the French. Later
on, after the Boer War, we find him at Cape Town, drinking sweet
champagne at 11 a.m. on a French cruiser, to the Entente Cordiale !
Later still, he spent holidays in France, in the early days of the automo-
bile. He toured France and realised the marvellous beauties of that
country, understood the French and comprehended their agricultural
districts and their forestry. It may be not known that Kipling's works
are appreciated as much by children in France as by children in England.
M. Maurois has done greater work, I believe, than any other French
author in working for the Entente Cordiale (applause). He has given
the French the opportunity of understanding our country and our people
and of getting to know and appreciate the lives of our great men and
their works. I hope all of you here have read M. Maurois' works; if
you have not, I ask you to do so—his Shelley, his Byron, his Disraeli,
and his Edward VII, which last has been so tremendously well-reviewed
in our papers."

In the course of M. Maurois' lecture and at his request, the Baroness
van Heemstra gave a most finished and excellent rendering of three
Kipling poems:—"The Sons of Martha," " The Ladies," and " The
Curé," to illustrate some of the lecturer's remarks.

When proposing a vote of thanks to the lecturer Lt.-Gen. Sir George
MacMunn said :—" It is my very great privilege to voice your wishes in
proposing our very hearty vote of thanks to M. Maurois, for, though
he talks to us in French, he is really one of ourselves. He was a French
liaison officer during the war, and they were some of our dearest
friends; he holds the M.C.—a fitting soldier's decoration. M.
Maurois has, perhaps, done more to bring us to understand each other,

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than any one else in modern times, and to-day he has come to us and
talked to us in very charming simple French, that we can understand."
In seconding the vote of thanks, Mr. Campbell Lee said:—" We came
here to-night with a double allegiance. First to do honour to a great
writer, but we found that we were worshipping at a double shrine, and
heard from the speaker how thrilling it was at certain times in one's
experience to be face to face with a very great man: one that you would
long to see, one whose writings have been in your heart and on your
lips for years. Such was our feeling to-night when we sat face to face
with M. Maurois, whose writings and wonderful phrases have thrilled us
in recent years, making for a better French acquaintance with America.
To-night we came to worship at the shrine of Kipling, but we also
worship at the shrine of a most distinguished and lovable man to
whom we have just had the privilege of listening."

A most enjoyable programme was provided by Miss Clarke-Jervoise,
who contributed several recitations in her usual felicitous manner ; spec-
ial mention must be made of her rendering of "The Song of the Dead"
in French, from a translation by Maud Kendal and Daniel Rose. Mr.
Graham Martin, who has a fine voice and artistic method, sang, " When
the Cabin Port-Holes " (Sir Edward German), followed by " Tiger-
Tiger ! " and " My Lady's Law;" the music of the two last, was com-
posed by Miss Clarke-Jervoise and formed a very effective setting to
the words. Miss Arabella Tulloch, whom we were glad to hear
again, gave two groups of songs very charmingly; she also sang two
duets with Mr. Graham Martin and proved an able accompanist. Mr.
G. E. Fox proposed a vote of thanks to the entertainers, which was
seconded by Mr. C. Richardson. The Meeting concluded with the
singing of the "Marseillaise " and " God Save the King."

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In our last issue we published a comment from the pen of Mr.
James Agate. In John O' London's Weekly (5 May, 1934) there is a
three-column article from the same writer, under the title of " Personal
Preference.—X. Rudyard Kipling," which pays tribute to Kipling's
appeal to the ordinary, as distinguished from the literary reader. To
have achieved this is to have achieved success, for Kipling wrote what he
thought ought to be written, without " fear or favour of the crowd," as
in the case of "The Islanders." The article is by no means adulatory,
but it is fair and, unlike effusions from the New Clever (one of whom
attributes the words of " Land of Hope and Glory " to Kipling)
shows knowledge of the subject.    Here are Mr. Agate's own words :—

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" Three times in my life have I been drunk, not so much on poetry as
on the verses of a particular poet . . . The third and last intoxication
was Kipling, whose heady exhilaration lasted through my twenties, and
whom I can still read in the same way that I read Pierre Loti. . . .
' Many Inventions,' which I still regard as the best volume of short
stories in the world. . . . Our subject does not lean much towards
exquisiteness, but when he does he can achieve it with the best. I find
the whole, westerly, sun-setting, and Hesperidean beauty in the stanza
on Auckland (Song of the English)."

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The curious idée fixe that Kipling only wrote bombastic Imperialist
verse is combated by Professor J. De Lancey Ferguson, who lectured on
" Kipling's Education " to the Rowfant Club, Cleveland, U.S.A., the
Secretary of which, Mr. Lawson Lewis, has sent us a brief summary of
the discourse, in which it was stated that many people nowadays think
of Kipling solely as an Imperialist and resent him accordingly. Pro-
fessor Ferguson said that, recently, at a gathering where he was asked to
read some poetry he had chosen some of Kipling's beautiful lyrics and
read these without mentioning the author's name ; as a result, many of
the audience, who suffered from the Imperialism complex, were as-
tonished and incredulous, when they learned who the author was.
Space will not permit of mention of all the good things said, but the
conclusion may be given verbatim:—" It is as sensible to say you do
not like Kipling's art because you may not like ' Imperialism,' as it is to
object to Milton's poetry because you dislike his Theology." The Row-
fant Club's announcement for this lecture, which was given on March
24th, 1934, commences with these words:—" Because he has never
deigned to explain, apologize, and above all, to indulge in personal
advertisement, Mr. Rudyard Kipling is the least understood of all great
modern writers."

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In the Sunday Chronicle of June 3rd, one of the New-Clever tells us
that he has read " If."    He quotes :—

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
and then goes on to say :—" That seems to me quite unbearably snobbish.
It is a relic of the early Edwardian Age. ... If a man is such a weak-
ling that he is going to lose his strength and integrity by mixing in the
rough-and-tumble of life he is not worth bothering about. That was, I
suppose, what Kipling meant.    If so, it seems hardly worth saying."

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There are several more similar comments meant, as the writer says, to
show that the poem strikes a false note, but he says that Kipling " hit
the nail on the head all right " in these two lines:—

If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools."

Passing over the small matter of an error in quotation (" words " for
" truth "), which rather alters the sense of the extract, we must compli-
ment the writer of this diversion on being unconsciously funny.

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In the Daily Sketch of June 6th, there is an article on Kipling,
one of a series called " People Worth Talking About," in which he is
dubbed " The Man of Five Fames." Although hampered by lack of
space, the author of this, Mr. Cosmo Hamilton brings out a number of
good points:—" The righteousness of the words he used, the magic of
his nouns, brought forth shouts of joy, while Mulvaney became a
household word in every nook and cranny on the English-speaking map.
Like Jingle in the ' Pickwick Papers ' he became an immortal character
from the hour of his birth." The ' Five Fames " are—Mulvaney,
Barrack-Room Ballads, the Jungle Books, Kim, and Puck of Pook's Hill.
Mr. Hamilton suggests that Kipling might add a sixth Fame by writing
a play:—" It is difficult to understand why Kipling has ignored
the stage, or why he hasn't ever made a magnificent pageant of " Kim."
Curiously enough, " The Light That Failed," says Mr. Hamilton,
showed that Kipling was rash in trying the novel as a means of expres-
sion; many contemporary critics called it the book that failed, but it is
significant that this work holds its own among the first editions, being
at present second only in value to the Jungle Book, while in sales, it has
beaten " Plain Tales."

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Yet another parody, though not a new one, for it appeared in Truth
many years ago; it may, however, be new to some. The poem parodied
is " The Story of Ung," done apparently when a Liberal Journalist was
endeavouring to make party capital out of the raising of a brewer to the
Peerage:—

Once, ere the glittering icefields paid us a tribute of gold,

Bung, the son of a brewer, heir to a fortune untold—

Vast was his knowledge of brewing—gaily began his career,

Whispered the voice of ambition, " Perhaps they will make thee a peer."

People who sampled his liquor wunk an incredulous wink,

Smelt it, then drank it, and grunted, "Verily this is a drink ! "

Even the Clubman admitted, wetting the tip of his tongue,

" Lo ! it is excellent beer !    Glory and honour to Bung ! "

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Praise of Kipling from the scholastic profession is so uncommon that
the following excerpt from The Schoolmistress (May 17th) may be
chronicled. Miss Holtby has an article called, " I Want a Story " and,
after duly remarking that " his imperialism seems nowadays nauseatingly
cheap and complacent," proceeds to an enthusiastic appreciation: —
" But what a teller of tales ! ... No writer in the world can, with
quite that gleaming polish of technical accomplishment and encyclo-
paedic knowledge, appear to initiate us into the ways of freemasons and
soldiers, cod fisheries and regiments, gardeners and schoolmasters and
civil servants and mem sahibs."

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Whatever our English critics, especially those whose mental age is
about twelve, may think, there seems little doubt on the other side of
the Atlantic that Kipling's permanence is assured. Mr. W. L. Phelps,
in the Washington Post of Feb. 7th says:—" Is it possible to imagine
any further age when ' Mandalay ' will not be popular ? Along about
the year 1890, Kipling's fame came out of the East like a great dawn, and
now it is afternoon. But when we hear or read those early works of his,
either in verse of prose, they come upon us with all the freshness of the
early morning air. . . . Before he was 25 years old, Kipling was one of
the most famous of living writers, and the aged poet Tennyson, before
his death in 1892, recognised the genius of the young poet, and gave him
the accolade. To which Kipling replied: 'When the private in the
ranks is praised by the general, he cannot presume to thank him, but he
fights the better next day.' "

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Not every one describes " The Light That Failed " as a failure. Mr.
Trevor Allen, who lives in Kipling's old rooms in Villiers Street, gives
it high place as an adventure story:—" What did Kipling do with
his hero, the artist who went blind, when the girl of his heart passed him
by ? Sent him out to the Sudan on one last desperate adventure,
one last gamble with fate, to find the friend who had been more to him
than ever woman could be. Action, drama, the eternal quest, the
unresting spirit, victory even in defeat. . . . And what would the
novelist of to-day do with him ? Send him to a psycho-analyst Round
the Marble Arch." These remarks arise out of a complaint against the
feminisation of modern fiction; Mr. Allen is quoting the editor of a
popular magazine, who is bewailing the lack of story-tellers, who present
characters, through deeds rather than elaborate description and psycho-

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logy. The new way is easier; it is, one sees, less trouble to maunder
through slush to an indeterminate finish than to construct a story or
novel where the action tells the tale, where the tale itself is brought to a
conclusion. The lack of a definite end is a glaring defect in modern
writing for which no amount of amateur psychology can atone. Even
now the average man or woman of sense longs for something definite—
something like what Dick Heldar puts into " straight-flung words and
few," when he describes his fellows of the brush:—" I foregathered with
some men of sorts. They said they were artists, and I knew some of
them could draw—but they wouldn't draw. They . . . talked about
Art and the state of their souls. As if their souls mattered." *The
modern novel of sex is like a moth ; it does some damage, but it has,
mercifully, a very short life.

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As a tribute to his studies of England and her people M. André
Maurois is to receive the honorary degree of D.Litt. on June 20th from
the University of Oxford and afterwards from St. Andrew's ; we offer
him our most sincere congratulations on this well-deserved compliment.
On June 14th, M. Maurois gave a lecture on " The Philosophy of
Kipling " to the Institut Français du Royaume Uni, in which he
explained why France likes Kipling. The following short quotation
from the Times gives a concise summary of the lecture:—"M.Maurois
said that Kipling had explained England well and had made her loved
in France. English people had often asked how it was that so many
French boys in their early teens were devoted to a writer who was a
poet of the British Empire and typically English. He gave a three-fold
answer to that question. First Kipling gave his reader a heroic con-
ception of life. The ideal qualities of leadership which he portrayed
did not belong to any one nation alone, but were as necessary to the
French office in Morocco as to the Indian Civil servant. Secondly,
Kipling had always managed to keep in touch with the primitive,
elemental side of man, and there was that side in every man. Thirdly,
no writer knew so well as Kipling how to impart life to stories of events
which happened in times of which we knew nothing. . . . Those
were the qualities in Kipling that endeared him as much to the young
Frenchman, as to his English counterpart.



* cf.    "In Partibus:            But I consort with long-haired things

In velvet collar-rolls,
Who talk about the Aims of Art,
And " theories " and " goals,"
And moo and coo with women-folk
About their blessed souls.

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At the evening meeting on June 19th, nearly 150 were present when
Major-General Dunsterville lectured on " Kipling and the Indian
Soldier." When introducing the lecturer, the Chairman, Lt.-Gen.
Sir George MacMunn said:—"Unfortunately the Rt. Hon. Lord
Moynihan, who was to have presided this evening, cannot come, and
at the last moment, I have been honoured by being placed in the Chair—
to fill the breach. Really there is no question of filling the breach,
as our President is able to do that in every way; I have very great
pleasure in asking him to talk to us."

An extremely enjoyable programme of entertainment was presented
during the evening. Miss Barbara Seymour gave delightful recitations
of " The Bell Buoy," " The Only Son," " Road Song of the Bandar-
Log " and, as an encore, " The Thousandth Man." Miss Margaret
Mclntyre sang with much feeling, " The First Friend " (German),
" Over the Edge of the Purple Down " (Muriel Elliot), and " The
Camel's Hump " (German), and Walford Davies' setting of " Neigh-
bours " (the first rendering of this at a Kipling Society gathering).
Mr. Nicholas P. Harrison sang magnificently in four songs by Martin
Shaw: " The Egg Shell," " Old Mother Laidinwool," " Pity Poor
Fighting Men," and " Brookland Road;" this last is a charming setting
of a beautiful lyric, and the singer's rendering was exquisite. Mr.
Norman Franklin was a most excellent accompanist.

Mr. J. O. Tyler proposed a vote of thanks to the lecturer:—" I have
been extremely interested this evening. I only come up once a year. I
must say that members who do not live in London most enormously
appreciate the reports in the Journal ; we know what is going on and we
get a more or less verbatim report of the speeches. As an old sailor, I
suggest that the Council get someone quite qualified to speak on Kipling's
works about the sailorman; I would also suggest that there might
be a talk on Kipling's interpretation of youth and childhood." Maj.-
Gen. J. C Rimington seconded the proposition:—" I have much
pleasure in seconding, especially as I have known General Dunsterville
for very many years. He was a most cheeky little boy. I was a prefect
at the period of " Stalky and Co.; the prefects are rather held up to
derision, but those three boys were pretty well kept in order."

Mr. Russell J. Coleman proposed the vote of thanks to the entertain-
ers:—" To one who attends these meetings for the very first time, it
has been quite an inspiration. I have had the greatest treat in listening
to the entertainers, whose every item was delightful; I know their
efforts were appreciated from the way in which the audience listened.    I

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have always admired Kipling's work since I came across it in 1886; I
do not know any writer who appeals to me more. I have heard Kipling
quoted in the pulpit. I was once a passenger on a big ship and went
to Sunday service. An American clergyman conducted it and preached
on ' Self-Control.' He quoted one of Kipling's poems. I have often
asked friends if they could guess which it was. (Voices:—" If? ").
No; he gave the whole of ' Mulholland's Contract.' It went very well
with ' Self-Control.' " Mr. W. F. Gemmer, seconding this, said:—
" By coincidence, Mr. Russell Colman has come from the same part of
the world as I—-he is the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk.
In thanking the singers, I must compliment them on the excellent clarity
of enunciation, which means everything, both in recitation and song.
The words count more than the music—I have been a musician all my
life—and in Kipling, the words are all-important." The Meeting then
concluded with the singing of " God save the King."

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We are happy to say that the Annual Luncheon (a report of which
appears elsewhere) was a great success, with 142 present; Lord Amp-
thill and the American Ambassador, both made brilliant speeches.
It is good news to hear that Lord Ampthill has joined the Society;
we also have to welcome two distinguished French Members:—
M. Billecocq, the French Consul-General and M. H. D. Davray,
C.B.E. Another new member is Mr. A. H. Gayer, the oldest living
Old U.S.C. boy who was at school with Kipling and " Stalky."

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Under the continuous attention of the Hon. Librarian, Mr. Maitland,
the Society's Library grows in quality as well as quantity. Among
recent acquisitions, one of the most interesting and valuable, is a gift
from Mr. A. E. O. Slocock—a tremendous file of new paper cuttings
of Kipling's work, including a series from the Daily Express of 1900,
entitled, " Stories of the War." These items, with one exception,
have never been collected and are remarkably good reading, especially
" Folly Bridge " and " The Outsider." The one which has been
collected, may be found in " Land and Sea Tales " under the title
of " The Way That He Took."

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Members and Correspondents are asked to note the Hon. Editor's
new address, which will be found on the back cover.

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Kipling and his Works from a French Point of View
By M. Andre Maurois, C.B.E., M.C.

WHEN I was asked to speak before you, I replied that my
admiration for Kipling was such that I could not refuse,
but that unfortunately I was quite unable to lecture in Eng-
lish and that the lecture would be in French. Colonel Bailey said
that he thought the lecture would be more generally understood
if it was in English; I was not quite so sure about that. I once
gave in England a lecture in French which began with a quota-
tion from Shakespeare in English; at the end of the lecture, the
Chairman came to me and said:—" Well, your French is much better
than I thought; I understood every word you said—except the first
sentence !" So, from that day, I decided never to inflict again upon
an English audience, a language which is not mine and which is not
their own either !

Of course, I cannot possibly pretend to bring before the Kipling
Society any new facts about Kipling, but I should like to try and show
you, by recalling the memory of my childhood and youth, what Kipling's
influence can be on young men who are not Englishmen. It has
often been said of Kipling, that he is above all the poet of the British
Empire, and it may seem strange at first, that he has given spiritual
food to so many young Frenchmen. It is, however, a fact. When I
was 16 or 17, I read Kipling's tales of India, and " Kim " affected me
more than any other book. I find that this is just as true to-day on
questioning the generation of my sons, who are now 11 and 12. I
should like to-night to say what it is that attracts the youth of all
countries to Kipling. I think the reason is that they find in his books
an heroic idea of life and it is of this idea that I am going to speak to
you first—but in French.

(Translation) Kipling's heroic conception of life is not the peculiarity
either of a country or of one set period of time. Nearly all men
who have fought in wars, who have been leaders, who have done some-
thing worth doing, have held practically the same view, whether they
were fine soldiers in the Trojan War, or fine soldiers in the Great War.

In human life, whatever the country or the century, men seem to
have passed through three periods of similar type. First comes the
time for the heroes—the big men who dominate their passions—con-
structors who lay the foundations for social life.    Then follows the

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political period, when administrative methods maintain what has been
created by the heroes. After this, when order has been firmly establish-
ed, men always have the idea that virtues have ceased to be useful;
they criticise what has been done and finally destroy society—and it
begins all over again.

Kipling covers the three classes of men. The first type is to be
found everywhere in his books; he had seen them in India; the men
who lay the foundations. Sometimes they are officers, sometimes
cotton-planters, but they are always men of very simple character
who, during their work, think of nothing else but that work, and not of
love or family ties. This kind of man Has no confidence in any one
replacing him, unless it be a man of his own type. Men of this type,
men of action but younger than he, he treats as sons and works like
slaves (but who work no harder than he himself); boys who must
take his place later, but who would be horror-stricken if such a thing
were suggested to them.

These men soon learn that action is not easy and that man is always
having fierce struggles. The designing of a bridge is easy; the build-
ing very difficult. All kinds of opposition are to be met with: the
river itself, the current of the river, weather conditions, and the wrath
of the gods. " What is man against the wrath of Gods ? " And this
is never absent, for the Gods detest man's victories.

The true hero does not work for wealth or honour, but for love of
service. I like so much the portrait of Scott who " counted eight
years' service in the Irrigation Department, and drew eight hundred
rupees a month on the understanding that if he served the State faith-
fully for another twenty-two years, he could retire on a pension of
some four hundred rupees a month." It is the usual thing for such
a man to learn, on completing an arduous duty, and at the moment of
success, that another is to replace him.

In this same class, but after the leader, comes the subaltern, the
young man who is destined one day to command, who is loved and
worked hard by his chief. Then comes the sergeant, for whom the
chief has a strong admiration (which I share) who rules because of his
technical qualities, even as the hero rules because of his heroic qualities.
At the bottom of the scale, lowest in rank but the most useful in
emergency, follows the private—the worker. More than any other
writer, Kipling understands his importance.    To illustrate this point,

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I shall now ask the Baroness Van Heemstra to read Kipling's poem,
"The   Sons   of   Martha."

When the man who talks claims to control the man who does, Kip-
ling becomes fiercely satirical, as in the case of Pagett, M.P., who
talks lovingly, with tears in his eyes, of his home ; who cannot appre-
ciate any methods of doing which are not strictly of the administrative
kind.

Sentimental talk and its consequences is seen in the story, " The
Mother Hive." The young bees become contemptuous of the other
bees who respect the Law, feed the Queen Bee and have a
healthy fear of the Wax-moth. All this ends in the loss of the stored
honey and the ruin of the hive. But it would be inaccurate to say
that Kipling is anti-liberal minded. For him, liberty is essentially
the daughter of Discipline and Law. The animals respect the Law;
when the wolves forsook it because of the tiger, they met with disaster
and begged for leadership again. The Law is the product of hundreds
and thousands of years, and can only be changed by the wise and the
strong; this view can be seen in "As Easy as A.B.C." and "The
Village That Voted The Earth was Flat."

I must now make a few remarks on Kipling's work in respect to
women. In the story of the two men who sought to be kings, all
went well until the better of the two broke the contract made between
them, and looked upon a woman. According to Kipling, woman
kills the man of action and also the action itself. Captain Gadsby is
thoroughly put out by his wife; and when Charlie Mears, who could
re-construct the life of pirates and re-live the past, placed before his
friend the " photograph of a girl with a curly head, and foolish slack
mouth," it meant that he would write no more. Woman's disastrous
effect on man's work is also shown in  " The   Light   That   Failed. "

But in contrast to this evil side of woman's sphere in the world,
enters also the true wife of an heroic leader, who, like him, thinks of
action and helps him to succeed in it. Thus is " William the Con-
queror," she who dealt with a famine, who can combine love and work;
Kipling appreciates the wife of the soldier, who can tend the wounded,
who knows how to wait and to be resigned. Nevertheless, even when
admiring woman, Kipling cannot help thinking that they are mysterious

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and   dangerous at bottom and have a sort of understanding between
them, as in " The Ladies."    (This poem was then read).

X                  X                  X                  X                  X

I come to the question of the place accorded by this great artist
in this world of heroes to artists. In my opinion, a writer who likes
describing men of action is, to a great extent, a man of action who
was frustrated and who feels of less account than the type he describes,
even as Cleever felt touched and amazed at the admiration vouch-
safed him by young boys who had seen " dead men, and war, and
power, and responsibility." Did it ever arise that Kipling blas-
phemed his own Art, to be sorry for it in the morning, as did Cleever ?

Kipling has no place in his world for the man who does not act; the
wretched Tomlinson was refused place in both Heaven and Hell,
because his sins were miserable crimes of which he had read and so non-
existent. This does not mean that there is no hope for the artist.
Kipling's view is that an artist can be a man of action without even
moving from his own sphere but in this case his art must be treated as
real work to be done in austere fashion—the technique thereof to be
learned even as that of any other craft; he must respect his art—-learn
it conscientiously before attempting to express mere personal senti-
ments and, by talking of beauty, lose it.

(Here the lecture was continued in English). I promised to end as
I began—with a few words in English. I wish to sum up my remarks
as follows: Literary talent is very widely spread in the world. I have
met in my life hundreds of talented men, but the impression of being
face to face with genius is extremely unusual. What does it consist
of ? It is difficult to analyse. We find ourselves in the presence of a
man, and we suddenly feel that he surpasses all others. He has a power
of contact with nature, a wealth of invention, a sort of eternal youth that
makes him entirely different.

I have had this strong impression only three times in my life. Once
at school in the presence of one of my masters, a French philosopher,
who, although quite unknown to-day, will sometime be as well-known
as Socrates or Plato. Once in the presence of a soldier—Maréchal
Lyautey—whom I saw create a new country. The third time was
in the presence of a writer.    That writer was Rudyard Kipling.

Of course, I would not use the word "genius" if Kipling himself
were present.    I can imagine him stopping me and saying, " You must

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not say these things," but, as he is not present I dare make a prediction
that in a thousand years, or in two thousand years, men will still be
reading Kipling and will find him still young. That is why your Society
in devoting itself to this great writer, has chosen well and chosen the
greatest. I thank you for giving me the opportunity of saying this,
and for having listened with patience to this long speech in two foreign
languages.

DISCUSSION.

Mr. G. C. Beresford: " I should like to ask Monsieur Maurois if he
can explain why Bernard Shaw is the English author who is read on the
East of the Rhine, and apparently Kipling on the West of the Rhine."

M. Maurois: " I think one might say that the main reason why
Bernard Shaw is, I will not say unpopular in France (because many of
his plays have been staged and acted there) but not an important author
for us, is that we already had one Bernard Shaw—that is. Voltaire.
What in Bernard Shaw may seem very new to you is not exactly new to
us. He attacks things which in France are not to be attacked, because
they do not exist. Now in the case of Kipling it is exactly the contrary.
We needed Kipling because we have in France the " Kipling " type of
man; we have a colonial empire, and it has never been sung by our
writers. They have never written about it, or very little. We have
not got our Kipling, and that is why we need yours.

Mr. Bazley (Hon. Editor) thanked M. Maurois very much, in French,
for his lecture, which had been most interesting, and said that when
one went through Kipling's works from the beginning one noticed his
great and thorough understanding of French mentality.

In reply to a question as to whether Kipling had a parallel in Alfred
de Vigny, M. Maurois said:—" I think it is a very apt point, because
it is quite true that Vigny in 'Servitude et Grandeur Militaire' is very
near Kipling in his ideal of life but Vigny wrote 100 years ago and he has
not dealt with the world of to-day. What is interesting to us in Kipling
is that in his books we find the heroic point of view. What Kipling
has done is to show that these qualities Vigny found in the officers of
Napoleon, still exist now, not only among officers, but among engineers,
workmen, sailors and men of all trades. He has shown us that the
modern man is exactly the same man as the hero of other times. I once
asked Kipling himself, because I had just read one of his stories about
the Roman Wall in Scotland, how he managed to describe Roman
officers and soldiers, and make them so true and alive.   Was it not an

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extraordinary feat of literary skill? He replied: "No, it's very easy,
I simply listened to the conversations of British officers in India, and
gave them as the conversations of Roman officers and that did the
trick."

In the course of M. Maurois' lecture and at his request, the Baroness
van Heemstra gave an excellent reading of the Kipling poems mentioned,

Kipling and the Indian Soldier
By Major-General  L. C. Dunsterville, C.B., C.S.I.

TO speak about " Kipling and the Indian Soldier," appealed to
me as being a fairly easy task. I know a great deal about the
Indian soldier, and all I would have to do, would be to read up
Kipling's references to him. So I began a search through poetry and
prose, and wrote to several members to ask for their help. They took
great pains to assist me, but what I drew was almost a blank. The
truth is, that Kipling never concentrated on the Indian soldier as he
did on his British comrade, so I found little in his works to help me with
material for this paper. I have hopes that what I say may be pro-
vocative and commence by saying that after a not very diligent search,
I have found nothing in Kipling's writings, dealing, except by casual
reference, with the brave old heroes amongst whom I have spent the
best years of my life.

It would seem that, during his years in India, on the staff of the
Civil & Military Gazette and the Pioneer, Kipling never came into
close contact with the Indian Army. One man, however versatile,
cannot focus on all subjects of interest that surround him; he must
choose some and eliminate others. Kipling, I am glad to say, took the
British soldier as his study and produced those inimitable stories of
which " Soldiers Three " is the best example. I am glad he did this,
because the British soldier was little known, and much misunderstood
and underrated by the civil population of Great Britain, and sorely
needed a champion, whereas stories about Indian soldiers and most
excellent character sketches of the warlike classes of India have fre-
quently appeared during the last fifty years, either in book form or in
such first class magazines as Blackwood; our Hon. Treasurer, Sir
George MacMunn, has contributed noteworthy articles in this category.
Perhaps one reason that withheld Kipling from concentrating on
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Atkins, is that although the former is a splendid fighting man he in no
sense forms a class apart from the civil population, whereas the regular
soldier of the British Army does seem to form himself into something
quite distinct from the ordinary working man. Our Indian soldiers are
almost entirely enlisted from the peasant or yeoman stock, and through-
out their service they never cease to be agriculturists at heart, to take
two well-known types-—the Sikh and the Pathan. The Sikh is in the
first place a Sikh; that is, he is imbued with a very strong national
and religious spirit. Secondly, he is a farmer, and he regards his pay
and pension as capital to be put into the farm. Thirdly, he is a soldier.
The Pathan is a fanatical Muhammadan whose religion is the para-
mount ingredient in his make-up. Then he is partly a farmer, but
as the barren hillsides of his homeland give a very poor return for
labour expended he has to keep going by occasional bouts of highway
robbery.    Finally, he is a soldier.

When I say that religion and farming hold the foremost place in a
sepoy's heart, I do not infer that he is not a good soldier; he is mar-
vellously good, but he is certainly not, as most of our British regulars
are, a soldier and nothing else. The importance of farming in the
sepoy's life is fully appreciated by the military authorities ; all schemes
for training, leave and furlough have to be based on the ploughing and
harvesting seasons. A long protracted war bears much more heavily
on the Indian soldier than on our men—he cannot help fretting about
the farm, which may well be going to ruin in his absence. I have
taken the two types best known to me, but the same mentality underlies
the character of all our fighting men: Gurkhas, Dogras, Punjabi
Muhammadans, Jats, Rajputs and others.

Now although Kipling never produced a complete story on the theme
of the Indian soldier, his genius did not fail to give us wonderful lifelike
vignettes of these splendid fellows. Take, for example, " Kim."
Kim, wandering through the villages as the Holy One's disciple, meets
the old retired Indian officer, described thus :—" It was an old, withered
man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny, as a
native officer in a newly-raised cavalry regiment. The Government
had given him a good holding in the village, and though the demands of
his sons, now gray-bearded officers on their own account, had im-
poverished him, he was still a person of consequence. English officials
—Deputy commissioners even—turned aside from the main road to
visit him, and on those occasions he dressed himself in the uniform of
ancient days, and stood up like a ramrod."   Many of us in this room

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have had the pleasure of doing honour to one of these old heroes, and
the whole scene springs to life. Yet East is East and West is West,
and never the twain shall meet, as the following incident may bring
home to you.

Just before the war, I was visiting such a man as this—all his military
glory laid aside and occupied as ever on the soil, yet turning out on
state occasions with a soldier's pride in his medals and decorations. My
old friend, knowing the ' sahibs' ' customs, had prepared for my com-
fort: basin, soap and clean towel for my ablations, and other trifles
indicating a wish to show his humble dwelling at its best. At food
time, glass tumblers, knives and forks made things easy for us. My
host had recently been in England as Orderly Officer to H.M. the King,
and these towels, tumblers and cutlery were souvenirs of his wonderful
adventure. Some bore the crest and motto of P. & O. ships; others of
railways and hotels. None of the articles were of great value, but in
law, a theft is a theft, though the motive may only be to collect souvenirs
of happy days ; I chaffed my old friend about it, explaining that he was
liable to be " run in." He was not at all abashed, and excused his
behaviour something like this:—" The Government have lots of these
things and would never miss a few of them—a great Government surely
cannot condescend to count over such trifles. I took a few from most
places I stopped at, partly as souvenirs and partly because I knew I
would require them some time or another when high officials might
honour my humble abode." I did not explain that private companies
were not " government "—as the word " sirkar" in his vocabulary
would have a wider meaning, covering all forms of transport, board and
lodging.

In No. 11 of our Journal, Mr. T. D. Neal has an interesting Paper, in
which he quotes Kipling's description of the N.W. Frontier Pathan:—
" Neither life, property, law nor kingship are sacred, when his own
lusts prompt him to rebel. He is a thief by instinct, a murderer by
heredity and training, and frankly and bestially immoral by all three.
None the less, he has his own crooked notions of honour, and his
character is fascinating to study." This is the Pathan as a private
gentleman, whereas I ought to be speaking of him as a private soldier,
but the Indian regular has no individual character as such in the way
that our British soldiers have. Here Kipling gives the essence of the
Pathan character in a few lines ; he occasionally met a Pathan during
his few years in India,   I had always 400 Pathans in my regiment

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during some 30 years service, and I suppose I may say that I know
them out and out, but I should fail to give you Kipling's life-like
picture even in many pages.

Take Kipling's points of Pathan character. He is not to be blamed
for lawlessness, as he is of the independent tribes between India and
Afghanistan, under the rule of neither. A tribe is guided by a malik, or
headman, whose words are generally respected, but his rule is often
broken and his advice ignored. About murder, I can give you an
exact example. A good old soldier had retired on pension after long
and honourable service. A year or two later, I was shocked to hear of
his death in this abrupt manner. I had asked how he was and was told
that he had been shot. I supposed there was another blood-feud in
the family, but was told that his only son had shot him. I said I
didn't like that, so my informant said that it didn't matter, as he him-
self had previously shot his father. As to theft by instinct, the
Pathan reasons like this : He has something I want; if possible, I shall
steal it; if not, I shall knife him. All thieves think like this, but the
white thief would hesitate to murder for a trivial article.

Fighting without reason—a point that might be overlooked but for
Kipling—is almost equivalent to quick temper. A Pathan officer of
my regiment returns from leave, long overdue, and explains by showing
me a furrow across his skull, that I could put two fingers into:—" I
and my friend were talking when I lost my temper and drew my knife;
he promptly knocked me over the head with his small axe; I don't
remember anything about it, not even the cause of the quarrel, which was
trivial. If our weapons had not been handy nothing would have
happened. I bear him no grudge and we are still good friends. But
we may quarrel again, and I may be lucky enough to get in first."

As to " crooked notions of honour," I will give a straight one first.
During the fighting in Umbeyla, when Sir Charles Brownlow was in
command, a Pathan asked for short leave to his home. To ask for this in
the middle of a battle sounds Gilbertian, but the oriental mind sees
nothing absurd about it. Everything had long been fixed up for a
marriage, but as he was on active service the ceremony was still waiting.
During a lull in the fighting, a few letters had come in—one with an
ultimatum for Sher Ali that if he were not home by a certain date, the
marriage was off, and another would take his place. Against the
advice of the man's own native officer Sir Charles granted leave, and,
as the enemy's efforts had slackened, Sher Ali got through their lines
by night and set off on his matrimonial venture.    Sir Charles had put

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the man on his honour and believed he could trust him, but the native
ranks were unanimous that it was a put-up job and that he would never
come back. On the night before the day he was due to return, the
enemy attacked vigorously, and it seemed that, with the best will in
the world, Sher Ali would never be able to get through. To everyone's
surprise, and to Sir Charles' delight, Sher Ali leapt over the parapet at
dawn and stood before them; he had kept his promise at the risk of
creeping through the attacking enemy, and now in his pride stood at
attention to salute his commanding officer. " I have kept my word," he
began, when a bullet caught him on the head and he fell dead at Sir
Charles' feet.

(Saying it was easier, unfortunately, to give examples of the " crook-
ed " notion of honour, the lecturer told a tale of a man who was
caught stealing rifles and offered a free pardon if he would disclose his
methods. He did disclose his methods and was set free; in spite of the
free pardon, he expected at least 5 years hard labour, though he may
have had an idea that sahib-log kept their promises in all circumstances).

One of the finest traits in the character of the Indian soldier is his
loyalty—his determination to be true to his salt. Stories of the Indian
Mutiny abound with cases of such fidelity, men remaining true to
the Death when their masters' cause seemed quite hopeless. In his
speech at the unveiling of the Indian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle in
1920, Kipling declared that " not since Columbus has there been such a
voyage as that of those Indian soldiers going, for a cause they but dimly
descried, to a land which some of them believed was peopled with
devils and which others believed to be a baleful nothingness, going
there from discipline and duty to the flag they followed. The whole
war bore no more noble sacrifice than that." Here again, in the fewest
possible words, he puts before us a vivid picture of the sepoys' mind ;
in which each sentence is as clear cut as the facet of a diamond.

How few people, when comparing the respective achievements
of British and Indian soldiers in the battlefield, realise the enormous
difference of mental conditions ! With such an outlook as Kipling
so well describes, every Indian soldier became a hero by the mere
fact of setting foot in France and confronting the appalling conditions
of mud and slush and cold in the winter of 1914—15.

Here is another noble trait, showing devotion to an individual. You
know what " caste " is, and that the effect breaking caste rules carries
on to the next world. I once wandered over the Rotang Pass into Lad-
akh with a Muhammadan cook and a Brahmin Dogra orderly; the

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former got lost, but, with no suggestion from me, the latter prepared my
meal, though meat is abhorrent to a Brahmin—a very trivial incident
but an outstanding example of devotion and loyalty.

Now let us take a last picture from " Kim," where the old Ressaldar-
Major tells of the glories of days gone by:—"They did not hang
medals in those days on all who by accident had heard a gun fired.
No ! In nineteen pitched battles was I; in six-and-forty skirmishes
of horse; and in small affairs without number. Nine wounds I bear;
a medal and four clasps and the medal of an Order." The old man's
references to his war services and wounds may seem rather boastful
to us, but this innocent and childish pride is typically Eastern, and
un-Western; and here Kipling again gives us an insight into the Indian
mind.

But I once heard a bad example of this from a more modern and less
modest hero. I was once present at a farewell to a native officer who
was about to retire on pension. The CO. made a short speech re-
ferring briefly to the long and honourable service of the officer, whose
record was really not very exciting. The proper reply would have been :
" Thank you very much for the kind way in which you have referred
to my devotion to duty," which would have been ample. But with this
individual the flood of oratory was let loose, and he proceeded to cap
every complimentary remark the CO. had made, ending up with," and
I doubt if any more loyal and devoted soldier has ever had the honour
of serving the Sirkar "—a remark which, if made by any one of us.
would be received with hoots and yells.

DISCUSSION.

In thanking the President for his lecture, the Chairman said:—" I
do not think he has made your flesh creep quite enough. I once had a
very good orderly a Banilai Pathan from Swat. I had lost my keys and,
after seeking them unsuccessfully he said, 'Has your Honour a button-
hook ? ' I produced one, and he proceeded to undo all the locks in
the house with it. I asked where he had learned this; he told me, in the
Delhi Police." But this was his favourite story, often related with
gusto. As a child he and others played by the side of a stream across
which was the land of a clan with which they were at enmity. A hostile
small boy strayed across. The other children stretched his throat
and cut it with a pocket knife—so much for tender youth.

Mr. J. O. Tyler: " As a sailor I know nothing about the Army, but
what about Gunga Din ? "

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Maj.-Gen. Dunsterville: " He was not a soldier, but he was a good
fellow and a magnificent type ; I love him.

Mr. J. H. C. Brooking (Founder) asked about the story, " In the
Presence," where the Indian soldiers kept guard over the coffin of the
late King Edward VII ; and Mr. Stokes enquired about the incident in
"A Sahibs' War;" both these questions were answered by Lt.-Col.
Breithaupt. Col. Bailey (Secretary) told the audience how well
Indians had worked in Mesopotamia. Mr. B. M. Bazley (Hon.
Editor) mentioned the native officer in "The Man Who Was,"
the Bhils in " The Tomb of His Ancestors " and the Gurkhas in
" The Drums of the Fore and Aft;" Kipling explains his ability
to show both European and Asiatic types of mind in his poem,
" The Two-Sided Man," where he gets the Indian quite as faithfully as
the Sussex peasant.

The Annual Conference and Luncheon

THE Annual Conference of the Kipling Society was held on June 20th,
 at the Rembrandt Rooms, S.W., with the President, Major-Gen-
eral L. C. Dunsterville in the Chair. The Report for the year ending
March 21st, 1934, was read, the live Register showing 708 Members
(51 " Life " and 46 " Donor " Members).

The Chairman stated that the number of enrolments improved
during 1933-4, but they had fallen off somewhat since April 1st and
had not kept pace with the casualties. There seemed to have been
another wave of depression all over the world ; Mr. Naumburg reported
the same difficulties from America. In consequence, the Society's
special advertisements had not been so productive to date as had been
expected.

Accounts. These had been circulated. The Hon. Treasurer might
have liked to have made some remarks, but he had been detained else-
where. The Chairman added that he thought the accounts were very
rosy considering the times and that it was really remarkable that there
was an increase in the balance. Investments had also increased, amount-
ing now to £300. The Secretary stated that cash under all headings
during the year was £483, expenditure £443-an actual cash balance in the
Bank of £40 after paying everything off. The Chairman then proposed
that the Report and Accounts (as audited and circulated) be taken as

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read, and adopted; this was seconded by Mr. J. O. Tyler and carried
unanimously.

President. Lady Cunynghame proposed that Major-General L. C.
Dunsterville be re-elected, saying:—"I am sure I am voicing the
thoughts of the Executive Committee, when I say that it would be
somewhat like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark if we had the
Kipling Society without ' Stalky ' as our President." Mr. James Grier-
son seconded the proposal, which was carried unanimously.

Vice-Presidents. The following (co-opted by the Council under
Rule VIII (b)) to be confirmed in that office: H. E. Mons. Camille
Barrére, and Lt.-Col. R. V. K. Applin.

Executive Officers for 1934-35. It was proposed by Mr. Russell J.
Colman and seconded by Lt.-Col. E. A. Briethaupt, that the Executive
Officers, as appointed by the Council, be confirmed in their appoint-
ments.

Both the above propositions were carried unanimously.

Members of Council (retired in rotation). It was proposed by Major
E. Dawson and seconded by Mr. J. Sanderson that the following
Members of the Council, who retired in rotation, be re-elected: Mr.
J. S. Griffin Mr. G. C. Beresford and Lady Cunynghame.

School Competition Scheme. The Chairman stated that this scheme,
approved by the 1933 Conference, was duly carried out by the Execu-
tive Council, who regretted to have to inform the Conference that the
response of the Public Schools was so disappointing and inadequate,
that they had decided to report that, in view of the experience gained,
they did not consider it desirable to proceed further with it. The
Secretary added:—" Colonel Milburn was very keen on this scheme.
We took it up, and circulars were sent out to 40 selected schools: 25
boys', 10 girls', and 6 secondary schools. We sent a very nice letter
with a list of prizes. We received 11 replies in all, only three of which
were in agreement without any reservation. The best came from the
Headmaster of Harrow, Dr. Cyril Norwood, who wrote a very nice
letter, saying that if the boys were allowed to go in for outside competi-
tions of this sort, in addition to their own work, it would be too much for
them. So the Council decided that it was not worth while spending
money on a scheme which was not welcomed." Mr. J. E. Kempe
proposed and Mr. Russell J. Colman seconded that the action and
decision of the Executive Council be hereby confirmed and approved ;
the Meeting agreed unanimously.

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Amendments to Rules as approved by the Executive Council. (a)
Rule V. Branches. The Secretary explained a proposal put forward by
Mr. A. E. G. Cornwell of Victoria, B.C. ; he said that Mr. Cornwell was
a very keen member and had been trying for years to form a Kipling
Branch, or Circle, there for years. He had never been able to get more
than about 16 members and the subscription in the mentioned Rules
made it impossible for a Branch to be formed; be asked for the Rule
to be altered. The Secretary added:—The proposal before you is the
result of the Council's decision ; this has been communicated to Mr.
Cornwell, who has written a letter of thanks." After some discussion,
Mr. Kempe proposed that there should be no alteration to Clause 1 ;
that the words, " enjoy all its privileges " should be omitted from Clause
2, and that Clause 3 should be altered as follows:—" The minimum
number of subscribing members to form a branch is 10. Each Branch
is required to remit to the Secretary on a date to be fixed by mutual
consent a contribution of 4/- per subscribing member per annum.
If the Branch has less than 20 subscribing members it will receive
Journals at the rate of one for every 3 such members. If 20 or more,
subscribing members, then each member will receive a copy." This
was seconded by Sir George MacMunn and unanimously confirmed.

(b)  Rule III.    Constitution.    The Chairman explained that there was a
very fine poem to Kipling in Journal No. 3 by a Danish sailor.    He
suggested that such a man might be made an Honorary Member.
Special cases might arise in which it was not possible for an individual
whom it is desired to honour, to join the Society in the ordinary way.
In order that the Council should be able to invite an individual, in
special circumstances to accept this privilege, Sir George MacMunn
proposed and Capt. E. W. Martindell seconded that the following
be added as Clause 2 to Rule III:—" Under exceptional circumstances,
and in order to meet special cases, the Executive Council is authorised,
at its discretion, to invite an individual to become an ' Honorary Mem-
ber ' of the Society, and thereby entitled to all the privileges of ordinary
membership."    After discussion, the Clause was carried as it stood.

(c)  Official Organ.    It was proposed to add the words, " (For Branch
Members see Rule   V.)"    This   amendment  being   dependent  on
Rule III, it was carried unanimously.

Bookplate. Colonel Milburn proposed and Sir George MacMunn
seconded a proposal that a bookplate should be designed which mem-
bers could affix to their Kipling books; the Council were asked to deal
with the matter.

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Votes of Thanks. The Chairman then said that he had come to the
most interesting part of the Conference—the proposal that votes of
thanks be accorded to all who have helped the Society so well during the
past year, and particularly to :—

1.    Major H. A. Tapp, for most of the year, and latterly Lt.-Col.
E. A. Breithaupt, for introducing O.U.S.C. Members to the
Society.

2.    Mr. Carl T.  Naumburg, Local Hon.  Sec. for U.S.A.; Mr.
Peter B. Vroom, Mr. William B. Stitt, and other helpers for
their untiring efforts on behalf of the Society.

3.    Mr. B. M. Bazley for his unfailing and ever excellent work as
Hon. Editor of the Kipling Journal.

4.    Mr. W. G. B. Maitland for his keen and successful work as
Hon. Librarian.

5.    Sir George MacMunn for his   work as  Hon. Treasurer and
our indefatigable Secretary, Colonel C. Bailey.

The proposal was seconded by Mr. H. A. Hutchison and carried
unanimously.

As no further business was brought forward, the Meeting was
declared concluded, with a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

(signed)   L.   C.   Dunsterville,   Major-General
President and Chairman.

THE LUNCHEON

THE Eighth Annual Luncheon followed the Conference:   Major-
General L. C. Dunsterville, presided, and the  Chief  Guests
were: H.E. Mr. Robert W. Bingham, the American Ambassador
in London, and the Rt. Hon. Lord Ampthill, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.

There was a large contingent of Old Boys of Westward Ho ! and
among others present, were:—Rt. Hon. Lord Rennell, G.C.B.,
G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. (V.P.); Lt.-Gen. Sir G. F. MacMunn, K.C.B.,
K.C.S.I., D.S.O., R.A. (V.P.); Rt. Hon. The Earl of Bathurst, C.M.G.
(V.P.); The Dowager Viscountess Downe (V.P.); The Countess
Bathurst (V.P.); Lt.-Col. R. V. K. Applin, D.S.O., M.P. (V.P.);
Lady Cunynghame (V.P.); Lt.-Gen. Sir H. F. Cooke, K.C.B., K.B.E.,
C.S.I., D.S.O.; Col. Sir A. R. Holbrook, Bart., K.B.E., J P., D.L.V.D.
(V.P.); Mrs.  L. C.  Dunsterville; Mrs, Alec-Tweedie (V.P.); Mr.

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J. H. C. Brooking M.I.E.E. (Founder); Mr. Guy Innes; Mr. and Mrs.
S. A. Courtauld (V.P.); and Mr. Russell J. Colman, J.P. (V.P.).

The excellent Menu of the Hotel Rembrandt was headed with two
lines from " Barrack-Room Ballads "—

"So cup to lip in fellowship, they gave him welcome high,
And made him place at the banquet board—The Strong Men
ranged thereby."

Grace was said by the Rev. J. H. Bateson, C.B.E., and consisted
of separate lines taken from Kipling :—

" For all we have and are,

Comfort, content delight,"
And   " Mercies  multiplied,"

Be thanks to Thee, Most High."

After the toast of " The King," Lord Ampthill proposed " Rudyard
Kipling." " I have to inflict myself upon you, but that is not my fault;
it is rather my misfortune. The fault lies with the courteous and
energetic secretary of this Society, who acts upon that homely adage
so often quoted from the cookery book, namely, ' You must catch your
hare before you would make arrangements for cooking it ! ' For nearly
two years he has tried to persuade me to come to this luncheon. At
last he has succeeded. But no sooner had he got me in his landing net,
than he gaffed me with a demand for a speech. I am not much of an
angler myself, so I am not quite sure if this is in accordance with the rules
of sport.

" Nevertheless, I am right glad to be here, to see that the Kipling
Society is evidently such a strong and going concern; I gather that it
has spread all over the four quarters of the globe. Certainly, Mr. Rud-
yard Kipling deserves that everything that can be done for him by the
Society, should be done. So that the first thought that is in my mind,
is one of hearty good wishes for the Kipling Society, and every hope
that it will go from strength to strength.

It is an honour to propose this toast. I imagine there is no English-
man or Englishwoman—except perhaps a few of those literary critics,
whose chief claim to notoriety is that their mentality is egregious and
arrogant—who would not rejoice in the opportunity of drinking to the
health of Rudyard Kipling, and I for one am delighted to have an oppor-
tunity of doing so in such a goodly company as this.

" There is a great deal of truth in that old saying, that a prophet
has no honour in his own country.      I remember that Cervantes' great

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work, " Don Quixote " was not appreciated in Spain for many a long
year. So I say that really the critics who have given the best apprecia-
tion of Rudyard Kipling have not been Englishmen, but Frenchmen—
and that is a very wonderful thing. Late in the last century, I happened
to be in the smoking room of a country house among some of the older
statesmen. The talk was literature. I was asked to express my opinion
and I plumped for Rudyard Kipling. They thought that was a very
uncultured and juvenile opinion. All these elderly statesmen told me
Kipling's works would not live. I won't tell you who they were, but
they were some or the best-known men in the country. I am glad to
see now, that that juvenile opinion of mine was more than justified. I
don't suppose there is anyone here who is not firmly convinced that the
works of Kipling will live as long as civilisation.

I cannot claim to be a personal friend of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, but he
certainly has been a friend of mine from earliest boyhood, because I
have gone to him for advice, for guidance, and for inspiration—that is to
say to his works—and nobody, no writer, has influenced my thoughts
on all the things I care about so much a Rudyard Kipling. And the
things I care about, apart from God and religion, are England, the
British Empire, India, the British soldier, and Freemasonry. In
all those spheres, I admit with gratitude, that I owe a great deal of
the thoughts that help and guide me to Rudyard Kipling's writings,
and I feel that he has done the same thing with thousands of our
fellow-countrymen, and English -speaking peoples all over the world.

" I don't know what His Excellency is going to say, but I would like
to remind him that even in America the people were slow to appreciate
Rudyard Kipling. I am told that on one of his visits to the United
States an enterprising New York reporter put in his paper, that Mr.
Rudyard Kipling was " a wreck in body and mind." I hope that that
erroneous impression has been duly discounted.

I have been put in touch lately with some of the French critics who
really do appreciate Kipling's works, and I have been enormously
impressed. First of all I have read the able translation made by the
Editor of the Society of M. Brion's book on Kipling. That has made
me realise more than ever what incomparable service Kipling has done
for the Empire. M. Brion is not alone. M. André Chevrillon has
given appreciations which seem to me to be more to the point, more
profound and more true than anything I have seen from the pens of
English writers.

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English writers in the early days, wrote in the spirit of that saying—
' When the Rudyards cease from Kipling, and the Haggards write no
more ' (laughter). The spirit of that criticism has not quite died out,
if I can judge by the quotations I have read in copies of your Journal. I
hope one of the things your Society will do, is to extirpate such unfair
criticism as that.

Perhaps the thing that appeals to me most of all, is what Kipling
has done for the British soldier, Tommy Atkins. Until Kipling
came, the soldier was not appreciated or honoured as he ought to have
been. In our villages and towns, the calling of a soldier was held in
disrepute, but Kipling has given him his due, so that the British soldier
is the true missionary of Empire. There is more of the work of Empire
achieved by his wonderful good humour, his charming humanity, his
love of children and of animals, and his perfect fairness, than the
work of all the administrators and governors and viceroys put together
(loud applause). It is the humble British soldier in peace time who
makes known the good influence of the British wherever the British
flag flies. The mistake we make is neglecting him and his achievements
in peace, for " When it comes to slaughter, you will do your work on
water, an' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it !"

The soldier's best work is done in the piping times of peace across
the seas, and Kipling has given us means of understanding and appreciat-
ing that. Just two instances come to my mind, two of his songs—
" Gunga Din " and " Mandalay." Is there anything to compare
with those as illustrating the spirit of the British soldier at its best ?
I only wish those songs were better known and more popular than they
are. Personally, I sing them whenever I get a drop of juniper, and I
find they always go down, because they ring true.

I hope that I have said enough to show you that I am as much an
admirer of Kipling as anyone here. There is nobody here who appre-
ciates more sincerely than I what Kipling has been for England and for
the Empire. When I talk of Empire, I put foremost the understanding
he has given us of India and her people. Nobody has given us a better
means of really understanding the people of India than Rudyard Kip-
ling. What is the reason ? Simply because he has not indulged in
any romantic or fantastic discourses, but has given us the plain un-
varnished truth, and after all, there is more beauty in truth and reality
than there can be in anything fictitious.

Those who read his books on India cannot help being carried away
towards that land of mystery and romance, towards its peoples with all

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their wonderful qualities and also their great failings—which they share
with the rest of humanity. Kipling's is a name that should be held in
honour, wherever the English tongue is spoken, and which is held in
honour by the people who read his books.

Lieut.-General Sir George F. MacMunn proposed the toast, " The
Guests:"

" My very great privilege to-day, is to call on you to drink to the
health of your guests. First and foremost, we have Mr. Bingham,
whom you all know, and who, as Lord Ampthill said, represents to us
the United States, who claim just as large a share in Rudyard Kipling,
as we do ourselves. It is a very great pleasure to propose the toast.
Lord Ampthill has spoken to you about Kipling. He will remember
that many years ago, long before he was Governor of Madras or Vice-
roy of India, when I was a subaltern, and when Colonel Bailey was
a handsome young cavalry man, we were dining far away in the
Residency at Jummu one day, and after dinner I have a recollection, I
think, of seeing Lord Ampthill sitting in a corner, wearing the butler's
headdress and playing a native instrument (laughter). We also have
among our guests to-day, seven Old Boys of Westward Ho ! old United
Service College men, and a large number of Old Boys who are members
of our Society. I am sure we welcome them all here very much, as
we do also several members of the Press, notably of the Imperial-
minded Press of Gt. Britain, the United Press of Australia, and the
Associated Press of America.

H.E. Mr. R. W. Bingham, the American Ambassador in London,
responded as follows:—" I am very grateful to you for this very kind
welcome, and I will have to confess to you that I think I rather needed
it after an experience I had quite recently, when I spoke at a dinner
here. The next day, when I read an account of it, it ran something
like this : ' There was a guard of honour provided by a famous regiment.
They were very picturesque, stalwart and handsome men, dressed in the
costumes of the eighteenth century. One of them collapsed during the
speech of the American Ambassador.' You should realise from that,
that I am a little timid about public attention and very happy to have
this very kind welcome here to-day. I am sure I speak not merely
for myself, but for all of your guests, in thanking you for the honour
you have done us in inviting us here to-day. For myself—and I
believe I can speak for them as well—there could be nothing more
plea:ant and nothing more altogether congenial, than to do full tribute
and full honour to Rudyard Kipling.

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I may as well just declare myself at once. I don't like to deal in
superlatives. I generally try to avoid them, but for many years, I have
been firmly convinced that in all our generation, the greatest writer of
English prose and the greatest writer of English poetry is Rudyard
Kipling (applause).

Now, this little story that my brother in Masonry, Lord Ampthill,
mentioned to you as having appeared in the American press—I want to
tell you the real truth about that. That was a quotation in the British
press, denied by our press.    That was really what happened.

I remember so well years ago, when Mr. Kipling and his children
were so ill, going down to Times Square in New York City to get the
latest news about their welfare and their health. It was the most
extraordinary scene. There were literally tens of thousands of people
standing there, watching that bulletin board to find out if there was any
improvement in that grave and serious time when all of them were so
ill. That was a perfectly spontaneous outpouring of sympathy and
interest and admiration for this great master of our tongue. Out of that
too, out of all that pain and sorrow and suffering, came, perhaps in some
respects, the most moving and touching story in our tongue. I am
sure you will all remember—it is called, " They." I believe, for my own
part, that I have read every line that Mr. Kipling has written, some of it
many times over.

I remember very well, some years ago in '25, I had a very serious
illness, appendicitis and an operation, and a rather narrow squeeze as
it turned out to be. My first conscious request was to bring me a
copy of ' Puck of Pook's Hill.' From my point of view, I think that is
the most moving, complete, enlightening, illuminating history of Eng-
land that has ever been written ! There we have got it all—the noble
and glorious tradition, and in a way the oldest of us and the youngest
of us can enjoy and appreciate and assimilate so that it becomes a very
part of our lives. The next volume I had then was " Rewards and
Fairies." It is rather an extraordinary thing, there is a story in
' Rewards and Fairies ' called ' Brother Square-Toes.' It was left to
an Englishman to write the most complete and understanding and
moving story of George Washington that was ever written by anybody !
And then, just at the end of ' Rewards and Fairies,' is inserted the poem,
' If.' Now I had been told by a dear and Scottish friend of mind, that,
that really was written on the theme of Dr. Jameson. But I have always
believed, on account of its position, and because it so truly represented
him, that Mr. Kipling was thinking of George Washington when he

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wrote it ! It is extraordinary how it becomes really a part of the
fabric of our very lives, this work of Rudyard Kipling.

And so it goes on through the whole scope of it. Now it happens
that so many of us have, as I have, some place in England or Scotland
where our people lived, sometimes for centuries, and we go back to
those places. We go back to them with a real swell of emotion and
feeling. The best story, the most complete description of what that
means to all of us is in Kipling's story, ' An Habitation Enforced.'
There it is, all that I feel when I go back to the old place in Dorset
where my people lived for so many generations, and where my friends,
so many Americans who go back to England or back to Scotland with
the same feeling, that Kipling tells us of so perfectly and movingly in
that story. If you have not read it recently, I hope you will read it
again.

You have been told by Lord Ampthill of just what he has meant
in so many ways, to England, to the British Empire, and to the great
Dominions. I know all of that is true. But not in England, not in
the British Empire, not in the great Dominions, has he meant more than
he has meant to my country and to my countrymen. He belongs, of,
course, to the great Immortals. What a tremendous tie that does
really mean between your country and mine, between your country-
men and mine, that we have this great master of our common speech
who speaks to us universally and really eternally.

And I should like to say to you what has been better expressed, than I
could ever hope to approach, just what the real situation is. I urge you
never to be influenced or affected by mere superficialities. I urge you
to think of the real fundamentals. I ask you to remember that we, the
English-speaking peoples of the world, are the guardians of Liberty and
of Democracy ? "

And Mr. Bingham concluded his speech by quoting a verse from
" The Houses," which also appeared upon the toast list:—

" Twixt my house and thy house what talk can there be
Of headship or lordship or service or fee ?
Since my house to thy house no greater can send
Than thy house to my house, friend comforting friend ! "
. (Loud applause).

" The Kipling Society and its President " was proposed by Lady
Cunynghame:—" In proposing the toast of " The Kipling Society and
its President," I fully realise the cordiality in which it will be drunk

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later on. I am sure all those here and absent friends will agree that the
founding of the Kipling Society was a great inspiration. Mr. Rudyard
Kipling in his works has portrayed to us the lives of men who have
held and are holding posts in all parts of the Empire. Now the Society
has great satisfaction in realising how far afield it has its members,
in all parts of the world. Some out in the wilds, far from cities and with
no social rights or amenities, write to the secretary, telling him of how
every three months they look forward to the receipt of the Journal,
and in many cases, they add how tremendously that Journal cheers
them. I might say that besides those in our great Dominions, we have
in America alone, over a hundred members. They will, I am sure,
when they hear that their representative was present at the luncheon
to-day, be glad to know that he stirred them to still greater enthusiasm.
Now we come to our President. I think you will all agree that few
societies are as fortunate in their President as we are. We all feel that
we really do quite intimately know Stalky. We look back to his early
days and we honour him as a great Englishman and one who has an
honoured name, a name on the battle honour roll of one of the prettiest
villages in England. I refer to Castle Coombe. I could tell you a
good deal about Major-General Dunsterville. In his early days, when
he was ten years old, he found himself at the College at Westward Ho !
with boys, many of whom were older than himself. He withstood all
their bullying. Perhaps one of the best assets of the President, is one
that is very debatable.    He proved that.

There was a very anaemic boy in the school who was ordered a
nightly bottle of stout. But the boy very much disliked the stout. So
Stalky, with his wonderful smile, came to the rescue and assisted the boy
to the extent, I imagine, of quite three-quarters of the bottle ! (laughter).
Another patient had to have eggs and rum. That again seemed to appeal
to Stalky. And when we look at Stalky, we see that these things helped
to build him up. And now I feel rather like the house-master, Mr.
Prout, who used to wonder whether this boy, with the sweet smile, was
not laughing at him (laughter).

Mr. A. H. Gayer, the senior Old Boy present spoke briefly:—
"I am not going to give you a speech. I, by chance, happen to be the
oldest Westward Ho ! boy here, and joined the first term in '74. Lady
Cunynghame has said General Dunsterville was a little boy at school
when there were old ones there. I was not an old one. But what I
want to do now, is to impress on you all, that Westward Ho ! wants to
uphold Kipling, and we want to cheer Stalky, who has done so much to

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bring this society to the place it occupies. Three cheers for Dunsterville
and Brooking" (all Old Boys present gave three lusty cheers).

The President then replied to the Toast:—"First of all, I must thank
Lady Cunynghame for the kind way in which she spoke of the Society and
and myself, its President, and in the second place I must thank my old
schoolfellow for embarrassing me, by getting up and proposing those
cheers (laughter). However, it was very nice. I cannot comment
upon any of Lady Cunynghame's remarks. I can corroborate much
that she said, but that stout business and the rum and eggs are solid
fact, and it is entirely due to that, that I have preserved my robust
health up till to-day—a diet of rum and eggs and stout, paid for by the
parents of other boys ! My other remarks will be chiefly confined
to a sort of ' mentioned in dispatches on various notes from our
secretary. We have to regret the absence of some of our well known
and dearest members. Everyone knows Mr. Fox and Mr. Slocock,
who have done so much for the Society. We have had an increase of
67 during the last year, up to April 1934. Our figures on that date were
717, which I think is satisfactory.

His Excellency, the American Ambassador, has already been referred
to by Sir George MacMunn. I should like to add what a great pleasure
it has been to find myself sitting with him, side by side. I am afraid
Mr. Bingham must have found me a dull host from the conversational
point of view, because there was no point on which we could disagree
(laughter). It is a matter of sincere regret that he was not able
to bring Mrs. Bingham. By the way, during the hectic parade at the
reception, I met a grandson of Li Hung Chang. Everybody in the room
will remember that marvellous statesman, and it was a wonderful
thing to me to be confronted with his grandson. I don't know whether
he is present. May I congratulate Mrs. Alec-Tweedie on her return
from her travels. We are glad to see our Chairman, Sir George
MacMunn restored to health after his very interesting tour from one
end of India to the other, where he got the latest information in regard
to our old friends the Indian soldiers.

I am glad to see so many of our old schoolfellows here. We have 52
on the list. They have just been photographed, and they are a good-
looking, very useful lot. I take them about with me wherever I go in
case there is an interruption.

Further, we have with us to-day, Mr and Mrs. Tom Jones, who
have just arrived from Chile. It is a very great pleasure to have with us
to-day, one of our keenest members from that distant country.    Several

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of our members, too, have sent us their regrets, and we have had a most
interesting cable from New York:—¦

' Members residing in the United States, extend most cordial
greeting to fellow members and Ambassador.'

We have replied to that.

There is one other item. I was told to address you on a subject of
which I am quite ignorant. I don't mean at all talking about things of
which I know nothing, but I thought on this occasion, I would try to.
I proposed to talk to you on the subject of Kipling's references to the
Indian soldier, but one member, on whom I had chiefly relied for a
certain amount of assistance wrote and said he regretted the title of the
paper, because he thought there was already a sufficient military ten-
dency in the Society. I think he was right. I see soldiers all around me
and I can't get away from them. This is not as it should be, but it not
our fault. In the United Kingdom, the proportion of services to
civilians is 1 to 40. And that is the proportion which ought to obtain
in the Society. As a matter of fact we have one admiral, one Captain
R.N., one Commander; five Generals, three Colonels; one Captain of
the Army. Out of a list of 430 members, I found 72 service men,
whereas the number should have been 11. But it is the fault of the
civilians. To balance the 72 we ought to have 2,880. So all I can do is
to ask you to go ahead and get them. With a view of quieting the fears
of this member, I should like to tell you that I am the President of the
Watchet Branch of the League of Nations Union, and you cannot
suspect me of militarist tendencies (laughter). Finally, I have to tell
you that the Library at the Hotel Rubens is open, and I hope some of
you will go there to see some of the recent additions.

Reviews and New Books.

United Services College 1874—1911 by Major H. A. Tapp, O.B.E.,
M.C. (2nd notice). In our last issue, we gave a brief summary, from
an advance copy, of the above work, which now appears in the full light
of day. While primarily intended for the O.U.S.C. this record is of
considerable interest to all readers of Kipling, for there are many valuable
notes and pictures which make clear many of the allusions in " Stalky
& Co." This world-famous book, says Major Tapp, " is largely fiction,
though it may have been based on real facts, composite characters and
incidents. . . .    Kipling has never said that the characters of Beetle,

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M'Turk and Stalky were founded on the actual experiences of himself,
Beresford and Dunsterville. The general public have assumed that to
be so, and with that assumption have failed to realise that the book is
excellent fiction and not in any sense history, although the fiction may
be less far removed from fact than history often is." Our President
contributes a short preface, thus giving his imprimatur to this useful
record. To the ordinary reader, its chief appeal lies, perhaps, in the
inclusion of a speech (not yet collected), by Kipling, on the occasion of
the leave-taking of Mr. Cormell Price in December, 1894—a speech
devoid of " purple passages " but simple and concise, a fine tribute
from the most eminent of his old boys to one of the greatest headmasters
of modern times. The book is well produced by Messrs. Gale and
Polden of Aldershot, and contains 52 illustrations from contemporary
photographs.

The April Strand, contains a new Kipling story. " Proofs of Holy
Writ," illustrated by A. R. Middleton Todd. Here our author follows
his Chaucer story, " Dayspring Mishandled," with a theory about the
translation of the English Bible ; the tale is told in the form of a con-
versation between Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, and the plot turns on
the latter being asked for more graceful translations of certain verses by
Miles Smith, one of the translators appointed by the King. Jonson's
comments when he learns that Shakespeare's ideas are preferred to
his are most amusing, though the tale is not all comedy; it is a piece of
scholarly and very beautiful writing, and the theme is original; the
character study of the two great dramatists is very clever. We com-
mend this story to the young critics who don't like what they term the
" blood-lust " in, say, " Gunga Din;" it may show them that Kipling
does most things in literature better than their comprehending.

About September next, a new Kipling book will be issued by Messrs.
Macmillan & Co., called "Collected Dog Stories." It will be Pott
4to in size, with 113 illustrations by that celebrated delineator of dogs,
Mr. G. L. Stampa; the price will be about 6s. in cloth and 10/6d. in
leather. The volume will contain the following stories and poems :—
Private Learoyd's Story—Garm—The Power of the Dog—Quiquern—
The Dog Hervey—Dinah in Heaven—The Woman in His Life—
Four-feet—Thy Servant a Dog—Supplication of the Black Aberdeen
—His Apologies—and A Sea Dog (the last is now published for the
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In "You Can Play and Laugh" Mr. Hubert Phillips writes a quite
amusing Kipling "Bridge" parody:—

I'm 'ere in me ole tuxedo, an' a skirt that's a little bit frayed.
A'layin' on to my partner as I know 'ow this 'and should be played;
Me neck is beginning to crickle ; I'm all 'ot and cold down the back,
And I'm fightin' a King and three Aces with a couple of Queens and a Jack.

In addition to the three new poems promised for the " Pageant of
Parliament," there is to be another new Kipling item in " Printers'
Pie," which is to be revived this year after a lapse of several years.

Kipling Prices Current.

THE chief event under this heading has been the sale of the Library
 of the Comte de Suzannet at Sotheby's in March last. Considering
that the times are not yet normal, prices ruled fairly high. Out of some
half-dozen Kipling letters, three went for £13, £9/10/- and £6/10/-.
Among the books, as might be expected, " Schoolboy Lyrics " brought
the top price—£185; "Echoes " was sold for £80, "Quartette" for
£62, a First of " Departmental Ditties " for £40, 2 pp. MS. of " The
Last Term," for £32, and Nos. 2—44, plus two others of the United
Services College Chronicle for £78. Among the book Firsts, " Wee
Willie Winkie" realised £7/15/-; "Plain Tales," £23; "Out of
India," £7; and " Captains Courageous," £3/15/-.

At the shops, there is not a great deal to be seen, but occasionally
good things appear. Hiscoke of Richmond had a First of " The
Jungle Book " (shabby but in one piece) for £1, and a First of the
" Just So Stories " in nice condition at the same price. Cooper at
Kingston-on-Thames had some very reasonably priced items, while, in
Charing Cross Road, Marks and both the Jacksons had some cheap and
good books. Davey, too, in Theobalds Road, may be visited with
advantage to the Kipling collector. An eye should be kept on recent
French publications; one of the latest includes "The Lamentable
Comedy of Willow Wood," which has never been collected since its
appearance in the Fortnightly Review of May, 1890.

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Secretary's Announcements.

(1)  Journals.    No. 2 has now been reprinted, and copies are available at 2/-
each.    The Secretary has one slightly soiled copy of No. 2 (original) which is
available for 5/-.    For current prices of back numbers, see page 32 of Journal
No. 29 (March issue).

(2)  Journal Binding.     New Members are informed that (see Journals No.'s
16 and 27) Messrs. W. & G. Foyle, 121, Charing Cross Road, W.C.2. have all
details of the " Standard " binding for Journals.    This is in red cloth, with
emblem and dates stamped in gold on the cover.    The usual plan is to  bind
them, covers and all complete, in volumes of 2 years each.    The price for full
binding is 3 /- per volume.    Covers only 1 /6 each, or 2/- each, covering postage
anywhere.    Apply direct to Messrs. Foyle.

(3)  New Book.    It may be of interest to O.U.S.C.'s and others to know that
Major H. A. Tapp's book, " United Services College, 1874—1911," which was
referred to by the Hon. Editor on page 10 of Journal No. 29 (March), is now
obtainable.    It contains much that is of interest to members.    Major Tapp has
kindly presented a copy of the book to the library.

(4)  Enclosure.    With this number, goes a copy of the Annual Report and
Balance Sheet for 1933-34 to all overseas members (except those in Europe who
have already received it).

(5)  Please note that the address of the Hon. Editor is now 11, Castelnau
Mansions, Barnes, London, S.W.13.

C. Bailey, Colonel, General Secretary.

ROLL   OF  NEW   MEMBERS   TO   JUNE,   1934.
Nos. 1260 to 1278.

1260   C.   Grey

India

1261    Mrs. A. D.Hammond

E.   Africa

1262    Miss Joan Henderson

Bristol

1263    J.  Colby Bassett

U.S.A.

1264    Mrs. E. M. Barclay

London

1265    Miss  Margaret McIntyre

Bedale, Yorks

1266     Henri Armand-Delille

France
1267t Sir George Godfrey

London

1268    F.   J.   Dickens

Silverdale

1269    Dr. H. S. Carter

Glasgow

1270    Mrs.  H.  Aitchison

Bexhill-on-Sea

1271    Charles Billecocq,

France

1272    Lord Ampthill

Bedford
1273X* A. H. Gayer

London

1274    Henry D. Davray

France

1275    Grace, Countess of Wemyss

and London

1276    F. W. Beddison

London
1277t Mrs. W. Phillips

London
1278    Lt.-Col. G. D. Hendley

London

t Life Member.

X O.U.S.C.         * "Donor" Member.