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Kipling

RUDYARD, an English author born in Bombay, Dec. 30, 1865.

He was educated in England, and in 1882 went out to India and joined the staff of the "Civil and Military Gazette," Lahore, for which paper his earlier tales were written. He depicted Anglo-In- Three," "Black and White," "Plain Tales dian and military life in "Soldiers from the Hills," "Story of the Gadsbys," "Life's Handicap," etc. "The Naulakha," published in 1891, was written in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier. "Many Inventions," a collection of storon gållars, sur- Thly are used Paris and for the 1,000 the capiated on a flat plain id. from Ozaka. A to the B separates • Biwa, and on these At the N. end are nclosure, the plain the emperonς ο The of the Mondo sech of center of the Buddrise at the S. end of ery, porcelain, crapes, es of Kiōto are highly oideries, enamels, and are marvels of skillp. about 550,000. ruistic stock of North which but one tribe, TI lived near Flatte and were settiod in the ast Russia between

N. of the river Genghis Batu, con- Central founded the Golden Horde or the magnificent camp on hite Horde or Eastern ited about 1878; but broken up by Out of the DY m moderti descend Astrakhan, the Ori- AD, an English Dec. 80, 1865. and in ined the ulier ta Anglof the Gadsbys 1801, was writt Walcott Balestier. collection of str KIRBY ies, appeared during 1893. In 1894 "The Jungle Book" was published, followed by "The Second Jungle Book." His first book of verse, "Barrack Room Ballads," appeared in 1892, and in 1896 another volume, "The Seven Seas." In RUDYARD KIPLING 1897 he published "Captains Courageous, ," in 1898, "The Day's Work," in 1900 "From Sea to Sea"; and in 1901 "Kim." Among his most popular poems are: "The Vampire," "Recessional," "The Truce of the Bear," and "The White Man's Burden." Of his more recent works may be mentioned, "Five Nations" verse: "Traffics and Discoveries" (1904); "Rewards and Fairies" (1910); "The Harbor Watch" (1914); "France at War" (1915); "Tales of the Trade" (1916).

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