Books: Restoration

A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S VERSE MADE BY T. S. ELIOT, WITH AN ESSAY ON RUDYARD KIPLING—Scribner ($2.50).

Ever since he started to publish rhymes (circa 1885), Rudyard Kipling has been one of the world's most read and most neglected poets. Americans and Britons who would not be found dead with a book of poems in their pockets read Kipling—worse, they memorized whole stanzas. A graduating class in a U.S. college which did not name Kipling's If— as its favorite poem might be presumed to have something wrong with it.

But the intellectuals demurred. The literary...

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