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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 191 



KIPLING 

 COMMANDS 



TTE TOWERS head and shoulders over the writers of 

 *~ -*■ to-day. There have been no books written equal to 

 his two describing the old, stark game of war (see column to 

 right); in his great poem "France" (published in France at 

 War) he has written what has been called the finest tribute 

 of love ever paid by one nation to another; his books sell 

 in ever-increasing numbers year after year; and finally from 

 his pen comes the finest volume of short stories of 1917. 



A DIVERSITY of CREATURES 



The First Book of Kipling Fiction in Seven Years 



We could fill pages of this magazine with eulogies of 

 "A Diversity of Creatures," but it is not necessary. The 

 following three are representative: 



" The stories reveal Kipling in (he maturity of his great talent. 

 Marfc Twain himself could not have written a more hilariously funny 

 story than ' The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat.' " 



— New York. Globe. 



" Kipling has never shown himself a greater master of the art of 



story-telling 'As Easy As A B C" is perhaps the finest 



short story of the future ever written.'' 



— London Athenxum. 



" There have been no war stories like the two at the end of this book,. 

 They are both miracles of understanding and pathos. I tell you, 

 when this man Kipling puts people on paper they are there, in three 

 dimensions and full action.'' 



■ — An old Kipling lover. 



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"Few writers are belter equip- 

 ped to write about the war, and 

 not one of them has his genius. 

 He has made the new conditions 

 of warfare live so that the man 

 who does not fight shall know 

 all about it." 



A London paper wrote 

 that. To judge of its 

 truth, you have only to 

 read 



s 



ea 

 Warfare 



Here Kipling penetrates 

 to the kernel of the English 

 naval mind. Submarines, 

 trawlers, scouts, cruisers, 

 — he hnows them all and 

 shows them in action. 

 The men that run them 

 are a breed apart — "dou- 

 ble-jointed, extra -toed, 

 with brazen bowels and 

 no sort of nerves." They 

 face death more readily 

 than praise. The story 

 of their dealings with the 

 Boches is more thrilling 

 than fiction — and as Kip- 

 ling says: " there might 

 be worse things in this 

 world for decent people 

 to read than such records." 



Then there is Kipling's 

 magnificent 



F; 



ranee 

 At War ( 



in which Kipling writes M 

 of France as a lover of his H 

 beloved — a great writer j 

 thrilled and girded by a % 

 great and longfelt passion. j 



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 net. 



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