Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) (1302 page)

It is in dialogue largely, and contains some delightful verses explaining or commenting upon the actions and intentions of the characters in the extravaganza — as the Chorus does in Greek Drama. Thus  when the horses of the lovers are brought together, the Little Blind Devil of Chance sings :

“
On a road that is pied

As a panther’s hide

The shadows flicker and dance,

The leaves that make them

My hand shall shake them,

The hand of the Devil of Chance,

The Little Blind Devil of Chance

“
My Personal Experiences with a Tiger.” This title is presented in Guthrie’s “ Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature” as having been published in The Ladies’ Home Journal (American), January, 1902. Not collected. Other titles mentioned by the same authority are “ New Auld Lang Syne,” “ The Rovers,” and “ Things and the Man.” These cannot at present be traced. It may be that future research will bring them to light.

“The Outsider.” The Third of the uncollected “ Stories of the War.” Published in the Daily Express for June 19th, 20th, and 21st, 1900; also in McClures Magazine, July, 1900. Part I. introduces Gentleman Cadet Walter Setton, of the Royal Rutlands, his clerical father and mother; also in another part of the globe, Mr. J. Thrupp, the highly efficient foreman mechanic in a South African mine. Part II. is concerned with the early training of Lieutenant Setton, of his scorn for “ outsiders,” and the circumstances which lead to his being in charge of a station hard by a bridge which the Boers had destroyed. Thither comes a party belonging to Phil Ten- broek’s Railway Pioneer Corps, in charge of one Hagan, with Private Jerry Thrupp among his gang. Hagan wants to restore communications between the mines and the coast. To all of Setton’s remarks he has only one reply : “ I want to get back to the Rand.” The way the man

disregards him irritates the young officer. Tenbroek recalls Hagan for work on another section, and Thrupp is left in charge at a critical time. The spans across the river are in place and are being riveted up, when Setton interferes, draws off the soldiers on the derricks, and in consequence the rivets are sheared and the two girders drop. Jerry’s remarks are designated “ insolence,” and he is put under arrest. Later there appears Colonel Palling, E.R., and Hagan, who take in the situation. Lieutenant Setton is transferred.

The Outward Bound Edition. The preface to this American edition of Mr. Kipling’s works, which was begun in 1897 (Charles Scribners Sons), indicates that “ Bitters Neat” and “ Haunted Subalterns” are included in “ Plain Tales from the Hills”; “Mrs. Hauksbee Sits Out “ with “ Under the Deodars “; and “ The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P.” with “ In Black and White.” The first volume has for a frontispiece a full- face portrait of Mr. Kipling executed in photogravure. Thirty-six illustrations from pictures in relief in clay by Mr. J. Lockwood Kipling enrich the edition. There is an introduction addressed “ To the Nakhoda, or Skipper, of this venture,” and has for a sub-title, “A Letter or Bill of Instruction from the Owner,” wherein is set forth, in terms and sentences reminiscent of the East, how the aforesaid Nakhoda may dispose the cargo to attract the men who would trade, and women who should know “ that many of the cloths are double and treble-figured, giving a new pattern in a shift of light.” Moreover, it is enjoined that when “ the little children come down to the beaches” the Nakhoda is “to hide away that which is uncomely . . . and spare nothing of the painted clay figures, the talking apes ... to give them pleasure.”

“Some Notes on a Bill.” A set of verses contributed to The Author of July ist, 1891, at a time when the author was suffering from American piratical publication of his work. It is delightfully frank, and has some naive, illuminating foot-notes. It has not been collected. A few of its quaintest lines are here quoted:

“Softly sang the British Author, for a dream was in his brain Of landaus from Long Acre and of houses in Park Lane; But ere he went to Tattersall’s or changed his modest dwelling He explained, per Western Union, his objections to their spelling.

“‘Oh, my Largest Reading Public,’ thus the coded cable came, 1 You drop one (hell) in “travelling” and — get there just the same : If to Webster and to Worcester, and your sauce at large I grovel, It will vulgarize our fiction — taint the Holy British Novel.’”

“An Unqualified Pilot.” An uncollected story of the Hugli river, printed in The Windsor Magazine of February, 1895. Four illustrations and a tail-piece by Cecil Aldin accompany the text. The story is concerned with Martin Trevor, the senior pilot on the Hugli, whose young son resolves, in spite of his father’s wishes and threats, to become a pilot. He proves his capacity by steering a Chinese craft with six pigtails while as many Celestials handle the tiller, making a stalking horse of his father. As a result he was turned over to his father’s friend, McEwen, for a proper training.

“The Way That He Took.” The first of some uncollected stories of war. Published in the Daily Express of June 12th, 13th, and 14th, 1900. Reprinted in The Cosmopolitan Magazine, November and December, 1900. Part I. introduces a Major and a Captain of Mounted Infantry guarding a railway station. To them comes a hospital train carrying, besides doctors and others, Sisters Dorothy and Margaret. The train is delayed by a leaking boiler, giving the nurses, doctors, and officers an opportunity for tea and intercourse. In the course of a stroll Sister Margaret explains to the Captain that she is of South African birth; that she loves the veldt, but that it was an injunction of her youthful days never to “go back by the way we had come.” Part II. shifts the scene to a Boer camp, and lays bare a plot to trap a company of British soldiers. Part III. shows how. the Captain of Mounted Infantry walked into the trap, discovered his mistake, remembered the nurse’s words, and by going back a different way won out safely; reported that it was a draw to his superior officer, who demanded whether “ you expect an officer of my experience to believe that.”

NOTES UPON SCHOOL BOOKS, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, AND OTHER PERSONAL MATERIAL OF R. K.

(In An American Collection.)

MERIVALE (Charles). The Roman Triumvirates. Map. i8mo, cloth (small piece torn from half-title). London, 1877.

Used by Kipling when at school. His name is printed in ink on the fore- edge, there are a few notes on the margins, and a list of references at the back.

OVID. P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum. Liber VI. Edited with notes by A. Sedgwick. i6mo, cloth (loose in covers). Cambridge, 1877.

Used by Kipling while at school. Almost every page contains drawings of musical instruments, fanciful animals, parts of the human body, scribblings, etc. On page 31 his name appears. An exceedingly interesting item.

BELCHER (Rev. Henry). Short Exercises in Latin Prose Composition (Part II.). i8mo, cloth (piece cut from half-title). London,1879.

Used by Kipling when a schoolboy. His name is printed in ink on the fly-leaf in two places, and once on the cover. There are notes in Latin on one page, and at the back there is a drawing of a Deodar tree.

MANUSCRIPT POEM written by Rudyard Kipling at an early age. Forty- four lines on two pieces of paper fastened together in the shape of a narrow folio, entitled “ The Legend of the Cedar Swamp,” and signed at the end “J. R. Kipling.” In a morocco slip-case. An unpublished poem, written somewhat earlier than his Scribbler (quod vide) contributions. The beginning will give an idea of its character:

“Darkness lay thick where’er we trod Alone with Nature and with God, Deep bogs were many round our way, And here ‘twas half night and half day.”

“THE SCRIBBLER.” “ Dulce est desi- pere in loco.” Vol. I., No. 12; Vol. II., Numbers 1 and 3. Together 3 Numbers, folio, no covers. Hammersmith, 18791880.

The Scribbler was a home magazine written and edited by the children of Burne-Jones, William Morris, and by Rudyard Kipling himself. It was begun in November, 1878, and lasted until March, 1880. The copies (there were two only of each issue) were written on foolscap sheets by Miss May Morris and her sister. Rudyard Kipling was an occasional contributor, writing under the nom de plume of “ Nickson,” and the above three numbers contain a story in two instalments, entitled “ My First Adventure,” and a poem, “ The Pillow Fight,” by him. With the above is an A.L.S. by Miss Morris regarding The Scribbler.

MANUSCRIPT POEM written by Kipling for The Scribbler, when he was a lad. Three pp., small 4to. Forty-two lines divided into seven stanzas, with the heading “ The Dusky Crew.” Signed with his nom de plume “ Nickson.” In a cardboard slip-case.

The above manuscript, together with the two others in this catalogue, was secured from Miss May Morris, who was the scribe for the juvenile periodical for which it was written.

The Scribbler expired long before the poems could be included, and these were found long afterwards among a mass of “ copy “ by various hands. Miss Morris and Mr. Price, Kipling’s old schoolmaster, both testified to the genuineness of the pieces before they were sent to this country.

MANUSCRIPT POEM written by Kipling for The Scribbler. Three pp., small 4to, containing fifty-one lines of a poem with the title “The Night Before.” Signed “ Nickson.” In a cardboard slip- case.

MANUSCRIPT POEM written by Kipling for The Scribbler. Fourteen lines on an oblong i2mo slip of paper, with the title “Job’s Wife.” Signed at the end “ Nickson.”

A delightfully tragic piece beginning : “ Curse now thy God and die, for all is done.”

MANUSCRIPT VALENTINE in the handwriting of Rudyard Kipling. Written on a piece of parchment of i8mo size. Signed with initials in a monogram.

On one side there is a poem of twenty- four lines, “ To A. E. W., A Song of St. Valentine.” On the reverse side are eight lines without heading, which read :

“There is one greeting for all — One salutation,

When Birds flit or Flowers fall, Or the Maid quits the Station : —

“Come back, with the cooler Spring Wind, For the dand lieth lonely;

Come back — for ye leave us behind Sweet memories only.”

R. K.

February 14th, 1884.

UNITED SERVICE PROPRIETARY COLLEGE, Westward Ho, N. Devon.

School Lists. Fourteen pieces, 8vo and 16mo, original wrappers. Bideford, 18781882.

This set covers the period of Kipling’s school life at Bideford, and shows his standing in his various studies. It is interesting to know that he won a prize for English poetry. Very difficult to obtain.

PROGRAMME for “The Rivals” and “ The Dead Shot “ as performed Tuesday, December 20th, 1881, at the United Services College Christmas Pastimes. Four pp., i2mo, no imprint.

In “ The Rivals “ Kipling is cast as Sir Anthony Absolute, and G. C. Beresford and L. C. Dunsterville (the Stalky and McTurk of his schoolboy stories) have the parts of Sir Lucius O’Trigger and Mrs. Malaprop. With the above is an A.L.S. from Mr. Gifford White, who played in the second piece on the programme.

SOME BOOKS ABOUT KIPLING AND HIS WRITINGS.

(In An American Collection.)

“THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD.” A Contribution to a Bibliography of the Writings of Rudyard Kipling. i2mo, original paper wrappers, uncut. (Jamaica : Marion Press, 1898). Edition limited to 150 copies.

A GLOSSARY to Accompany Departmental Ditties as Written by Rudyard Kipling. i2mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. New York, 1899.

CLEMENS (Will M.). “A Ken of Kipling, being a Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling, with an Appreciation and some Anecdotes.” Portrait and two illustrations. i2mo, cloth, uncut. New York, 1899.

KNOWLES (Frederick Lawrence). “A Kipling Primer.” Including Biographical and Critical Chapters, and Index to Mr. Kipling’s Principal Writings and Bibliographies. Portraits. i2mo, cloth. Boston, 1899.

MONKSHOOD (G. F.). “Rudyard Kipling. An Attempt at Appreciation.”

Portrait, and autograph letter to the Author. First Edition. i2mo, cloth, gilt top. London, 1899.

NORTON (Charles Eliot). “Rudyard Kipling. A Biographical Sketch.” Portrait. i2mo, boards, uncut. New York, 1899. Edition limited to 100 copies.

PARKER (W. B.). “The Religion of Mr. Kipling.” First Edition. i2mo, boards, cloth back, uncut. New York, 1899.

RALPH (Julian). “War’s Brighter Side.” The Story of The Friend. Newspaper edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts’s Forces, March-April, 1900. With -fifteen illustrations. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. London, 1901.

Poems and other material by Kipling appear here for the first time in book form.

“THE WORKS of Rudyard Kipling.” The Description of a Set of the First Editions of his Books, in the Library of a New York Collector. With Portrait, signed in pencil, by T. Johnson, and facsimiles. Royal 8vo, boards, uncut. New York, 1901. (One of twelve copies printed on Japan paper.)

“FORSTER’S NOTE BOOK on Kipling.” No. 1, Birmingham (1898). Rudyard Kipling. New York, 1899. Together two pieces, i2mo and i6mo, paper.