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Rudyard Kipling's Works for Election to Membership THE KIPLING SOCIETY HE Society was founded in 1927. Its first President was Major- T General L. C. Dunsterville, C.B., C.S.I. (" Stalky") (1927-1946), who was succeeded by Field-Marshal The Earl Wavell, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., C.M.G., M.C. (1946-1950), Lt.-Gen. Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, G.C.V.O., K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O. (1951-1960). Members are invited to propose those of their friends who are interested in Rudyard Kipling's works for election to membership. The Hon. Secretary would be glad to hear from members overseas as to prospects of forming a Branch of the Society in their district The Subscription is : Home Members, 25/- ; Overseas Members, 15/-; Junior Members (under 18, anywhere), 10/-; U.S.A. Branch, $3.50 per annum. These include receipt of The Kipling Journal quarterly. Until further notice the Society's Office at 323 High Holborn, W.C.l, will be open once a week, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please be sure to telephone before calling — HOLborn 7597 — as the day is not always the same. NEW MEMBERS : THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO RECRUIT YOUR CENTENARY NEW MEMBER CENTENARY NUMBER Additional copies of this Centenary Number of The Kipling Journal may be obtained for 12s. 6d., post free, from the Editor : Roger Lancelyn Green, Poulton-Lancelyn, Bebington, Wirral. NEW MEMBERS : We are delighted to welcome the following NEW MEMBERS : U.K.: Mmes. D. Carpenter, M. Hodgson, M. Mackie, I. Manning ; Misses S. Heppell, M. Lambert, J. Weaver ; Col. A. Paton ; Dr. J. Richardson ; Messrs. T. Bradbury, L. Brody, J. Burdett, J. Dunman, P. Heseltine, R. Hope, L. Peterson, R. Thomas. E. Thompson. GERMANY : Fr. Hauptmann-Dessan ; C. Dundas. U.S.A.: Mrs. E. Bateson ; Prof. L. Cornell ; Hon. S. Reber, Jr.; Messrs. J. Brody, G. Clarke, J. Orgel, P. Sherman, B. Walker, E. Wolff ; Colorado Univ., Fr. Collins ; Louisiana Univ., B. Rouge ; Russell Sage Library ; Syracuse Univ. VICTORIA B.C.: H. Davy. THE KIPLING JOURNAL published quarterly by THE KIPLING SOCIETY Vol. XXXII. No. 156 DECEMBER 1965 CENTENARY NUMBER CONTENTS THE TURN OF THE CENTURY — Edmund Blunden 3 CENTENARY NEWS AND NOTES —Roger Lancelyn Green 4 ' PROOFS OF HOLY WRIT ' — Rudyard Kipling 11 THREE REVIEWS (1886 - 9) —Andrew Lang 20 KIPLING FOR CHILDREN — Rosemary Sutcliff 25 AN INTRODUCTION TO ' KIM ' —Charles Carrington 28 RUDYARD KIPLING : POET — Bonamy Dobrée 33 KIPLING AND THE SHAMBLES — J. M. S. Tompkins 42 WHY KIPLING DID NOT BECOME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN — George Calvin Carter ... ... ... ... 48 KIPLING IN AMERICA TODAY — Morton N. Cohen 53 TO WHOM DOES KIPLING SPEAK TODAY —Elliot L. Gilbert ... 56 ' THE UNFADING MEMORY OF RUDYARD KIPLING ' — Nevill Coghill 65 REPORTS ON DISCUSSION MEETINGS — P. W. Inwood 70 BOOK REVIEWS — Margaret Bagwell Purefoy, J. H. McGivering, R. L. Green 76 LETTER BAG —P. W. Inwood, H. Dunscombe Colt, C. E. Carrington, R. E. Harbord 80 EPILOGUE :' TWILIGHT IN THE ABBEY ' 84 THE KIPLING SOCIETY Forthcoming Meetings BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATION SERVICE By the time this Journal is published, it may be too late for members to warn in for the above, though there is nothing to prevent them attending without tickets for the reserved section. Enquiries may still, however, be addressed to Mr. J. H. McGivering, 17 Addlestone Park, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey. The ceremony will take place at Noon on Thursday, 30th December, 1965, in The Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey. We intend to have this ceremony tape-recorded. Instructions for obtaining copies will appear in the March 1966 Journal. COUNCIL MEETING The next Council Meeting will be held at 323 High Holborn on Wednesday, 16th February, 1966. DISCUSSION MEETINGS January 12th, 1966, at the Ulster Room, Overseas House, Park Place, at 5.30 for 6 p.m. Another ' Do you know ? ' contest. No difficult questions will be asked. March 9th, same time and place. The Centenary and After. Professor C. E. Carrington, M.C, will lead a discussion on Kipling's Literary Reputation with the Critics. ' BATEMAN'S ' Owing to its great popularity and success, the Centenary Exhibi- tion will remain on view throughout the summer of 1966. December 1965 THE KIPLING JOURNAL 3 THE TURN OF THE CENTURY by Edmund Blunden There were magicians when my life began By tales and ballads working their wide spells, As, Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle and Wells — And Rudyard Kipling. Their inventions ran True to the light of the age, their spirits called The wonderful into our quiet lives: and still The human touch was there, heroic will Was heard sustaining; and we read enthralled. How Kipling out of rough-cast natures drew The song of greatness, from things commonplace Showed the unknown, and in the modern race Of Progress hailed Romance for ever new, We tell. Without his genius in its prime, Can we imagine England at that time? 4 THE KIPLING JOURNAL December 1965 CENTENARY NEWS AND NOTES by the Editor There may be no logical reason for celebrating a centenary, and when the event which took place a hundred years ago is the birth of a baby of which no notice was taken at the time except among the relatives and nearer friends of the parents, there may seem to be even less reason for doing so. When Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born to Alice (née Macdonald), wife of John Lockwood Kipling, Professor of Architectural Sculpture, in Bombay on 30 December 1865, there was naturally no idea that a hundred years later the world would be celebrating the centenary of one of the great writers of all time. 'How do you like you and me being godfather and godmother to Rudyard Kipling?' wrote his aunt Louisa Baldwin to his uncle Frederic Macdonald: pleased though they were at the birth of a nephew, that sentence bore nothing of the magic it does for us reading it a hundred years later. It is a pity that there was no Just So Story about 'How the First Birthday was Made' — "In the high and far-off times, O Best Beloved, there were no Birthdays, and nobody knew what a Centenary was. None of the people of the Tribe of Tegumai knew on which day to remember specially all that Tegumai had done for them, and all that Taffy had 'spired him to do; and they all went up and down every day of the year making wreaths and writing odes and critical studies, and drinking to his memory and the unfading genius of Tegumai Bopsulai — and everything was 'fused and freudian and altogether farcical ..." And so it is right and proper for the Kipling Society to meet each year at the Annual Luncheon in honour of Rudyard Kipling — and even properer and more certainly right for us and many thousands besides to remember and pay our very special respects and record something of our perpetual debt of gratitude in the year which con- tains what would have been his hundredth birthday, and most par- ticularly of all on December 30th. On that day many of us will meet at 12 noon in Westminster Abbey to lay a wreath on Kipling's grave in Poets' Corner, listen to Mr. Michael Hordern reading from Kipling's works, and join the Dean of Westminster in the commemorative prayer. And some of us will meet together at various private gatherings and stand for a moment of the deepest gratitude and respect to drink to the memory of Rudyard Kipling. And many more of us will slip away quietly to take one or other of his books, lovingly turn over the well-thumbed, familiar pages and read for the tenth — or hundredth — time that story or poem for which we are most grateful and which seems at that solemn moment to bring us nearest to one whom few of us met in the flesh, but who nonetheless ranks with our nearest and dearest friends. December 1965 THE KIPLING JOURNAL 5 'PROOFS OF HOLY WRIT' Although all of Kipling's works will take on a special aura of reverence in this moment of literary communion, perhaps few of us will turn to what is almost the last story he wrote, 'Proofs of Holy Writ'. Yet it has a special appeal of its own, and must surely rank with his greatest artistic successes, even if on a lower spiritual plane than some of his most famous stories. Almost every story in The Sussex Edition must be among the half-dozen favourites of some reader or other, and perhaps this story has a special appeal to those who follow Kipling's own profession and most appreciate 'the miracle of our land's speech' — who group it with 'The Finest Story in the World' and 'Wireless', 'The Propagation of Knowledge' and 'Dayspring Mishandled'. Kipling started the story at Bath in February 1932 when he visited George Saintsbury who, he records "gave me inestimable help in a little piece of work called 'Proofs of Holy Writ', which without his books could never have been handled." He thought to finish it in July of the same year, but seems to have set it aside and only completed it in August of the following year. It was first published in The Strand Magazine of April 1934 and reprinted in the same periodical in December 1947. Apart from a Copyright issue by Double- day, Doran & Co., of New York in 1934, its only other appearances seem to have been in the Sussex and Burwash Editions, and in The Kipling Journal No. 126, June 1958. We are particularly grateful to Mrs.
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