start, and whose adventures entangle them in the far-reaching net. of the great secret service of 

 India. The plot develops within these lines, it occupies itself with little bevond the bov's concern 

 with that service, that Great Game, the most fascinating game of mystery and power that a prosaic- 

 age has left in - the world, and the complications of these concerns with the devout wanderings of 

 the marvelous old lama. 



Bi * what a wealth of gifts has gone to enrich this classicallv simple outline! what people we 

 meet : soldiers and horse-traders ; priests and scholars ; a babu quoting Spencer and fearing magic ; 

 veiled women whom we have never seen but whom we should recognize if we did, so sharplv has 

 their personality been bitten into our consciousness ; a strange polished gentleman "doctoring pearls" 

 amid scenes like an Arabian Nights' palace ; savages as uncanny as if they had stepped out of 

 Herodotus ; and everv creature of the crowding throng warm and solid, a human being whom we 

 meet and know. 



Here is character indeed, a wealth of it, not superficially smart, but such character as only a 

 knowledge of life deep and true could produce. Indeed, in "Kim," for the first time, Mr. Kip- 

 ling has united in a story the militant strength that has always stamped his prose with the rarer and 

 profounder insight of his poetry. 



In the World of Graft 



Result of a Painstaking Journey 

 through the Haunts of Thieves 

 and Tramps. 



m / i 



those of the 

 crime could 

 to the public 



By JOSIAH FLYNT 



What does the criminal think of society? 



What are his relations to the constituted 

 authorities ? 



Can he be held in efficient control ? 



What measures are necessary to relieve 

 societv of much ot the danger and loss 

 from the criminal classes ? 



These questions are discussed and an- 

 swered by Mr. Flvnt with candor. For 

 fifteen Years he has studied the criminal 

 classes all over the world and is recog- 

 nized as the highest authority on this sub- 

 ject. His methods of investigation are 

 original. He lives among criminals and 

 is generally supposed by them to be a 

 " shover of the queer" or distributor of 

 counterfeit money. It is because he has 

 their confidence that he learns their real 

 attitude to the problems above pro- 

 pounded. What he saw and what he 

 earned during a long tour of investigation 

 in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadel- 

 phia, and elsewhere in the spring ot 1900 

 will be told in McClure's Magazine 

 during the coming year. The papers 

 will give not only his own views but 

 criminals, who tell what thev do, how they arc able to do it, and how they think 

 be suppressed. This is the first time the criminal has had a chance to speak his mind 

 , though he do;s so unwittingly. 



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