Rudyard Kipling.

Manawatu Herald, 16 June 1892, Page 3

Rudyard Kipling.

Eudyard Kipling (says the Young Man) owes everything to work. He has led one of the hardest and most strenuous of lives. Of course, he has genius, imaginative power, obsenation, but they have been trained and developed in the school of hard work. At sixteen he had written reams of tales and verse, It was at this mature epoch that he met at dinner the proprietor of a graat Indian newspaper, who was struck with the old-fashioned cocksuredness of the boy. He asked him if he had written anything, and finally engaged him at £300 per annum to go out to . India as sub-editor of its most influential paper. Add to the work of a sub editor the debilitating climate of India, and think of what the life of this youth of sixteen must have been. He can " toil terribly," as Queen Elizabeth said of Ealeigh. Last year, when he was the lion of the London draw • ing-rooms, he suddenly disappeared. He left no address ; his own relatives called at his chambers in vain. He had gone into the heart of the country ■with a man and a typewriter. There he worked steadily for ten hours a day till he had produced his last book. When the task was finished he was almost speechless and paralysed with the tremendous nervous strain.