Foreign News: King of English

Mr. Kipling reveals life by flashes of vulgarity—Oscar Wilde.

I don't think the reading of Kipling ever changed anybody's life very much— George Bernard Shaw.

Then there was Rudyard Kipling, with the gorgeous East and the British Empire rattling like loose change in his trouser pockets.—E. F. Benson.

IF is probably the most popular poem now in the world—John Masefield.

It isn't what you write but where, and when, and how.

How all too high we hold

The noise which men call fame,

The dross that men call gold! —Rudyard Kipling.

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