McClttre'-r Magazine 



for 1901 



For tqoi McClure's Magazine will be, as it has always been, the 

 expositor of everything most vital, fresh and significant in literature, and 

 the life of the world ; and it will fill its place more brilliantly than ever 

 before. Its programme offers fiction, studies of nature, biography, historical 

 matter, and records of discoveries, inventions and explorations — all of the 

 highest value. 



As before, it exemplifies the advantages of keeping clear of ruts 

 and grooves. No writer is too new, no matter too unprecedented, if the 

 writer and the matter have real claims on the world's attention, for 

 McClure's Magazine. 



RA7DYARJ) KIPLING'S "KIM" 



The Important Literary Everwt of the New Yea^r 



The publication of Mr. Kipling's new novel, " KIM," 

 in McClure's Magazine is unquestionably the literary event 

 of the year. It is like to be the literary event of a decade, for 

 we are lucky when two such masterpieces of fiction appear 

 within ten years of each other. 



India is Mr. Kipling's own peculiar field — because he is 

 first in it and the rest nowhere, and because delightful as he has 

 been when showing us life in other lands, he is never such a 

 wizard as when he deals with the country of his birth. 

 "Kim," his new hero, is like himself, "native-born," a little 

 Irish lad who babbled the heathen's speech ere he came "to 

 the white man's tongue." The secrets of India are Kim's, 

 and he initiates us into the mysteiies of the temples, and the 

 ways of Brahmin households, and the strange life of wild Hima- 

 layan mountaineers. But fascinating as is all this wonderful 

 background it moves us mainly as people and places and events 

 affect Kim's adventurous, varying fortunes, and the happiness of 

 the beautiful old lama whose "disciple" and guardian Kim 

 chooses to be. 



So it is that the orphan son of Sergeant Kimball O'Hara 

 sets forth wide India "for to see," and stumbles upon his 

 father's old regiment, and pulls some of the manifold strings of the strange complicated Secret 

 Service that holds all India as in a net, and qualifies for its " Great Game." Disguises and secrets 

 and dangerous missions have a captivating fascination for Kim, and that is where he is like 

 the rest of us. 



The scenes are crowded with such wonderful characters however, people who are such 

 living and enchanting companions, that it is the highest possible evidence of the lovableness 

 of the two central figures that they hold our allegiance and attention over all the company and 

 all the wonders of the setting. It is a great story of adventure and an illuminating analysis of 

 varied human character. 



Illustration for " KIM." From the has 

 relief modelled by J. Lockwood Kipling. 



