Mr Rudyard Kipling.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 October 1891, Page 3

Mr Rudyard Kipling.

—•♦ ■ ■ ■ Ifc is with pleasure that wo welcome Mi' Rudyard Kipling to this Colony. To a large number of onr population Ilia tales have given great amusement and wo trust his stay amongst us will have the effect of re-invigora-ting his health, for which purpose he has made shis trip. It will not be out of plaea to give Mr Julian Hawthorne's criticism on this gentleman, as ifc appeared in lij/pinoott ; If Ml- Kipling recalls any one, it is Bret H i:-r,.! ; thsre is a similar self-possession and sagacity in the style ; he is never crude ; he has the literary touch ; whatever he writes becomes literature through his manner of putting it. He is manly and masculine, and consequently ha.? an intense appreciation of the feminine in nature ; he never touches a woman but we feel the thrill of sex , , , . Mr Kipling has been brought up in the best society, which is batter (for a writer) than to get into it after being brought up. He has also been brought up iq, born in, a literary atmosphere ; I must return to this ; he is a brijb writer ; he knows just how a -story must be told ; just what pot to say ; just how to say what is said. He is as easy and convex 1 - j sational as a man lounging among friends in his own smoking room ; but he never makes a mistake of tact his voice never rings false, ha hag more self-control than his reader. He has a great imagination, of the least common sort ; say, as different as possible from Mr Haggard's. It is so quiet and true that its power is j concealed ; we think all the time j that we are reading about real j people. i