Rudyard Kipling

Excerpt from Rudyard Kipling: The Artist; A Retrospect and a Prophecy Those who have followed Mr. Kipling's swift advance for ten or more years past, have felt, within the last twelvemonth, that a decisive crisis was reached. This has now been doubly emphasized by his alarming illness - and by the black shadow of heaviest bereavement, fallen for the first time upon his joyous career. It seems all but certain that he is to be restored once more to the delights, the burdens, the agonies of the artist's life; but it is at least equally certain that his youth, with its world-wide ranging curiosity, its rollicking humor, its Titanic wilfulness and extravagant expenditure of energy, will have vanished forever. Mowgli, matured, humanized, wedded, a father, a weeper of manly tears, has all but forgotten the jungle. The three musketeers are mustered out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.