;!'.! 11 W::,:-,;: ..-Mi^.i ..;.,..: ■ j j!| ijij jpii jp iiifiiitii' Li ! ill iii iiiiiiii II iiiiiiir 1 " ' ii!liU!l Collection of American ILiterature iScqucatbrb to Zf)t ILihtavv of tfje Hnibergitp of iSortf) Carolina 'He gave back a^^raiji tha^Avhich he received 'as misf " "••<* t'^'.. •** • ** UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL 00032193572 FOR USE ONLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION J For THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS THE ITALIAN PuuL THE IDEA OF THIS POOL WAS SUGGESTED BY THE CYPRESS LINED BASIN AT VILLA FALCONIERI AT FRASCATI NEAR ROME. THE BASIN IS 30 X 70 FEET AND 6 FEET DEEP. THE CEDAR TREES, WHICH VARY IN HEIGHT FROM 20 TO 35 FEET, WERE BROUGHT FROM VARIOUS PLACES ON LONG ISLAND — SOME AS MANY AS 30 MILES The Qoiintry Life "Press garden C^ty, .!A(V7p 1 ^07\ T'ublished for the friends of T>oubleday, Tage & Company BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION HIS little book is entirely unconventional in man- ner and arrangement. It does not pretend to com- ^^ pleteness nor to being built upon a well devel- oped plan. Its only excuse for existence is that it reflects some phases of publishing which have concerned the occupants of Country Life Press in the problem of working out a task still far from being fully performed, but yet reporting certain progress. What is lacking in modesty may be to a degree compensated for by enthu- siasm, and at least some parts of the little volume we hope may be found to be of interest to our friends who are connected with the writing and making of books. DOUBLEDAY, PaGE & Co. J -4 CONTENTS PAGE B\' Way of Introduction ... 3 The Countr\' Life Press .... 7 The Grounds and Gardens ... 49 The Building 65 The Sun Dial 73 Doubleda)', Page&Co.'s BookShops 89 About Our Authors 95 Joseph Conrad 99 By James Huneker, H. F. Saxton, and Richard Curie Booth Tarkington 117 By Robert Cortes Holliday Stewart Edward White . . . . 131 By E. F. Saxton Gene Stratton-Porter 141 By H. E. Maule Selma Lagerlof 151 By H. E. Maule Kathleen Norris 161 By Alice Faith Powell Rud\ard Kipling 167 My First Book Rudyard Kipling, Prophet The Years Between The Kipling Index 181 Little Pictures of O. Henry . . . 235 By Arthur W. Page The O. Henry Index 245 (^jCOMRMHY ^yTHblHCG-VVORKEHS ON THE TCNTM AMMIVEf^^AKY OF THE'FOUNDfN' ^'- Of'"niElR[3USlHE3o ^^ tOOOJANir'Af^Y lOto' J'J THE TABLET IN THE LIBRARY THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS . ^ ^.HEN the tenth birthday ^^kg/ of Doubleday, Page & 11^ ^f § , Company was celebrated on January i, 1910, the occasion prompted us to consider in what direc- tion the future growth of the business would lead. We realized that our building at Nos. i33~J37 E^st Sixteenth Street, New York, was hopelessly inadequate. 1 1 was erected in 1905, and although the floor space was just seven times more than the area occupied at 34 Union Square, where the business was begun in 1900, our needs had so grown that very soon a separate stock room had to be acquired in Twenty-fifth Street, conducted at great inconvenience; and the manufac- ture of books was carried on in more than a score of different places, at still greater inconvenience. Th^ question had long confronted us as to what we should do, to remedy an 7 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS OUR FIRST HOME, JANUARY, I 900 THE THIRD FLOOR OF 34 UN ION SQUARE, N E\V YOR K 8 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS OLK I IKST BUILDING, OCIOBhR, I9O4 EAST SIXTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS inefficient and uncomfortable business home. In January, 1910, we stopped working for a little and began thinking, and it occurred to us that we could well afford to make any reasonable sacrifice in re- leasing our building in Sixteenth Street to gain what we really needed — a plant to do all our work and to do it under the best conditions under a single roof. So much does the mind run in grooves that although we had been advocating the country as a place for living and doing one's work we still spent our efforts in studying quarters in New York City. The high price of property, the limitations of a small area of land, the cost of erect- ing and maintaining a city building of many stories, the tremendous difficulty of getting good light, caused us to realize the obvious fact that we could not do what we wanted to do in any big city, least of all New York. We needed at least 1 50.000 square feet of floor space: this meant a building on a plot say one hundred feet square, fifteen stories high, with cellars and sub- cellars, and much of the space taken up by elevators and service rooms, at a cost 10 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS -"':"c.?^ :.^'tV- ''"■-^' ji^r4"?2?afei OUR OPEN FRONT DOOR per square foot for interest on invest- ment and taxes at least twice what it would cost outside of New York, to say nothing of gaining the advantage of large floor spaces in the country instead of small ones, of sunlight instead of electric light, and of the opportunity to grow We were drawn to Long Island for two reasons: In the first place, the Pennsyl- vania Railroad was adopting it as its ward, which meant ultimate good service —perhaps the best in the country; the 1 1 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS COLONEL ROOSEVELT LAYING THE CORNER- STONE OF COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, JULY, I9IO tunnels were nearly complete and would mean quick and convenient communica- tion; and, in the second place, because land on Long Island was less dear than at other places so near the great city. Garden City attracted us because it was an established community and had gone beyond the state of raw ''development" which makes so many American sub- urban places an object lesson in what not to do. It was already settled, with water, gas, electricity, sidewalks, sewers, trees planted forty years ago by Mr. A. T. Stewart, its original owner; with shaded 12 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS roads, streets, a ^ood hotel, schools, a cathedral, clubs, and a reliable and pro- gressive company in charge of its affairs. It was twent\- miles from the heart of New York on an electrified branch of the l.ong Island Railroad. 40 minutes from the new Penns)lvania Station in New York, and had in its immediate neigh- HARLY SPRING IN THt CULKl 13 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS borhood Hempstead (a fine old town), Mineola, and a dozen small places con- nected by trolley wherein our people could find homes. The land for the Press itself was dis- covered in a crescent-shaped piece of LOOKING DOWN INTO THE COLRT- ground, a full half mile in length, on Franklin Avenue, on which a trolley runs north and south across Long Island connecting with many small towns — an ideal situation for the business buildings, because the Long Island Railroad has its electric track in the rear. A close switching connection was made with it 14 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS and our own private track at the north and south openings of the Press. In addition, we secured about five and a half acres at the back of the Press, and in the front of it, across the Avenue, a full block, a plot 500 x 1200 (about six- VIEW FROM A ^ICOND STORY OFFICE teen acres) for future uses — nearly forty acres altogether, which provides plenty of room for growth. In March, 1910, the land was purchased and plans without number were made for the building. The architects, Messrs. Kirby and Petit, were untiring in their efforts, drawing hundreds of sheets of 15 THE COUNTRY I. IFF. PRESS ONE OF THE FOUNTAINS — IN IRIS TIME detail to fit conditions which each de- partment imposed upon them. A large quantity of supplies had to be contracted for — steel, cement, some mil- lions of bricks — and all at break-neck speed, as we had decided that we should move in the Fall of 1910. Many tales 16 THE COUNTRY l.IFF PRFSS IHh NORTH COURT IN IRIS TIME could be told of rushed work; steel from Pittsburg being actually delivered on the ground four da>s after the order was given; cement by the car-load, and trains of brick hurrying along; sand and gravel dug by the thousand yards from a pit on our own land, our own railroad track laid 17 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS THE LIBRARY in a couple of days, and several hundred men beginning to work all at once. Toward the end of May, 1910, footings for foundations were laid, but through unforeseen troubles they had to be re- moved and the actual building did not begin until June ist. It seemed im- possible that, starting so late, the build- ing, engines, boilers, elevators, steam heating, wiring, electrical contrivances, and all the other complicated things necessary to complete such a structure could be finished by the end of Septem- ber. Would it be possible for us to move in and print the November issues of our magazines as we had hoped? By 18 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS the aid of our very good friends, the architects, the contractors, and the sub- contractors, the building was nearly enough completed for the moving of the composing room and other machinery to be begun on September 15th, just three and a half months from the starting of the real building operations, and the engines began to turn and to actually make electric power for the machines on September 26, 1910—94 w^orking days from the beginning. On October ist the office force moved to Garden City and business in the country began. We had decided when we started The Country Life Press that nothing should be omitted which would WITHIN IHL CULRT 19 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS add to its efficiency. The power was to be conveyed to every machine b\' electric wires, and each, no matter how small, even the adding and invoicing machines, should have its own motor. Letters, also, are folded, the stamps put on the en- velopes, and the envelope sealed — by a machine with its tiny motor giving it life. With due allowance for the enthusiasm of a new enterprise we felt that The Countr\' Life Press had been well started on a career which we hoped would grow from year to \ear. It is now about nine \ears since this start was made. Doubleda\-, Page & Co. have had man\' experiences during that time, and mostl\' pleasant exper- iences: at all events, we still believe in and enjo\' our Count r\- Life Press plan. The enterprise has grown, notwith- standing all the distresses and troubles of the war, poor business, lack of labor in the war period now happily passed; and it is our hope that we do better work in all our departments, and we know we do more of it. Our conveniences and comforts have increased. We have our own W^estern 20 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS L nion telegraph ofifice and our own tele- phone system, with eighty branches in the building, and our own trunk line wires to j#»^' NOT TO FORGtT THh BHAUTIhS OF WINTtR 21 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS A iL LIP-BORDERED PATH the New York office, 1 1 6 West 32d Street. We have our little hospital and nurse to keep people from getting ill if we can manage it, and to assist those who fall sick; and a very expert dentist with the most approved of modern appliances to serve in this most important of pro- phylactic purposes. The statement most frequently made to us was that people who edit, print, and publish would not leave "the Great White Way," meaning, we take it, Fifth Avenue and Broadway, but they have managed to do even this and show contentment. In the Sixteenth Street building we numbered about 400; in Garden City 22 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS P.^f'' A CORNER OF THE NORTH WING FROM THE COURT 23 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS we are now about a thousand. Not a single person holding a responsible or managing position disapproved of our plans, and on the day we moved in we had hundreds of applications for positions in the mechanical departments alone — many from people who wanted to move away from the city, and at all times we have scores and hundreds of applications for positions in every de- partment. We mention this not because we think our experience has been un- usual, but because we have always be- lieved that people appreciate stead\' work and pay and good working con- ditions. When we first moved to Garden City we were able to produce about 6,500 books a day in the cloth bindery. This output was doubled in a few years, and at the time this paragraph is written we are turning out about 20,000 cloth and leather bound books ever\' twenty-four hours. In the magazine department the capacity has risen from 13,000 to a maximum of 50,000 magazines a day ; and we grow, if not by leaps and bounds, with a certain substantial steadiness. We are still an open shop; we greatlx 24 THF COUNTRY LIFE PRESS A CORNER OF THE COURT STEPS value the friendship of our D. P. & Co. co-workers, who have done their best in providing men for the Army and Nav>', in buying Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps to a substantial amount — about three quarters of a miUion dollars. A few friends of kindly thought have 25 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS referred to our plans at Garden Cit\- a a "welfare" and an "uplift" affair. It is not even remotel\' this sort of an enter- prise, but a plain matter of business, and our fellow-workers would not be a part of such an organization. We have no doubt they would resent any intimation that the whole business was founded or conducted upon anything but a strict " quid pro quo." At all events, we should not wish to make any offer that was not a practical business one. The Country- Life Press is an endeavor to get the ut- most business efficiency in all depart- ments, and success in securing such efficienc\- means permanence of work and steady pay, good light, air, sunshine, and a clean workshop, comfortable premises, and as attractive surroundings as can be managed without excessive expense or impairing practical working conditions. All these things lead to a better spirit, and work done in fewer hours and with greater cheerfulness. "How about your bulk mail which you formed)' sent to the New York Post Office? Has not this been delayed?" To which we answer: "No." On the contrary, the Government has established 26 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS 27 THE COUNTRY LIFH PRESS a post office in our own building. The mail is weighed and paid for in bulk, wheeled into our own postal car, on the track at the south door, assorted, tagged and routed to destination, saving man\- hours lost b\' the congested conditions in New York, and on most days some fifteen tons go in this waw When we moved to Garden City the business of the local post office was about S7.000 a year; it is now nearly Si 50.000. The Long Island Railroad has built an attractive little brick station called "Country Life Press" at which all trains stop in our own grounds, and which has become well known to the thousands of soldiers who on their wa\' to or from the battlefields of Europe have stopped at Camp Mills. It is sad but true that too few people seek us out to buy our wares. In com- mon with our contemporaries we are obliged to press our salesmen's attentions upon customers in the various depart- ments in their places of business in New York, and throughout the entire country. But if any one seeks our books in the metropolis, they can be obtained at our New York offiice, 1 16 West 32d Street, or 28 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS in an>- one of our three good bookshops- one in the concourse of the l>ennsylvania station, one on the busy corner of 38th Mreet and Fifth Avenue in the Lord & 1 a>'lor store, and the other in the down- Mr lUI. 1 i)l ^.^ -ty-^-f: »^-v^' KMMNG 01 K SLkvICh ^LAG town district, at 55 Liberty Street if any one wants to advertise in any of our pubhcations some joung gentleman well versed m advertising lore will be found m the New York Ofifice. If, on the con- trar>-, our friends are looking to secure orders from us. Garden Citv is but a moderate distance to travel for benefits received. 29 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS THE TENNIS COURT, AND ITS ROSE ARBOR BACKSTOP In New York the clerk and the operator must usually travel on an average of two hours a day in the subway or trains in crowded cars between home and work. Men and women get to their tasks tired and return home exhausted at night. In the country, when the home is near-by, they increase their living day (counting the journey as wasted) perhaps 20 per cent., and working conditions and com- forts probably 20 per cent. more. In reviewing the more interesting developments in the history of this firm we feel that it is quite possible to say in 30 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS retrospect that Doubleday, Page & Com- pany have been consistently in the van- guard of forward-looking movements both political and economic. In order to pro- vide an adequate means of expression or interpretation of the times, the new firm brought out in 1901 the first issue of the IVorld's Work with Walter H. Page as its Editor. There were other maga- zines of a serious nature published then, such as The Review of Reviews, and The Literary Digest, but the World's Work was the first popular interpretation of the questions of the times in which all I. AWN BOWLS AFTLR LUNCH 31 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS the contributions were original — written primarily and solely for that magazine. Since that time the World's IVork has kept in the forefront of current thought and at the present time enjoys the dis- tinction of being one of the leading maga- zines of the country devoted, up to the signing of the armistice, almost entirely to the prosecution of the war, and now to problems of reconstruction. In the years before the war the World's Work was an exponent of conservation of our natural resources; it carried on a strong crusade against the pension frauds, and v/as in the lead in most pro- gressive movements. It also has carried in its pages the life stories of some of America's great characters. Its circu- lation has grown steadily \ear after \ear, new features introduced in accordance with the spirit of the time, adding new readers of a very high class. Upon the day that war was declared in Europe the September, 19 14, issue of the World's Work was beginning to run on the presses. The editors simply killed the magazine which had been made up with the usual care and at the usual expense, and called in all the experts needed to 32 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS turn out the successful IVorld's IVork IVar Manual. College professors con- sented to write all night long like news- paper reporters upon the strength and resources of the belligerent nations, and editors hastened hither and yon to gather all possible war facts for which ' would eagerly grasp the opportunity to do so. Accordingly every possible scrap of O. Henry's writings was collected and the whole was presented to the public. And this presentation proved an extraordinary fact. The lim- itations of commerce would not allow a publisher to spend enough on one book of short stories collected from magazines to reach the many who wanted them. But to twelve volumes this limitation did not appl\'. Up to the present time about 4.100,000 copies of O. Henry's books have gone to the public. Moreover, there have been two de luxe editions of O. Henry published in addition to the biography by Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, all of which have been in large demand. In the Fall of 1919 we are publishing a new volume of O. Henry stories, not hitherto issued in popular book form (it is in one de luxe edition) under the title of "Waifs and Strays." It comprises twelve stories which eluded THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS the most diligent O. Henry "specialists" until a year or so ago, as well as a quan- tity of critical and biographical material published in leading magazines. The modern master of the short story has found his place, not only for the time being, but permanently, for O. Henry, like Kipling, is part of the present gene- ration's contribution to all time. More recently we have brought to- gether the works of another master, Joseph Conrad, and again the cumula- tive process has had its result. From the time of the publication of Mr. Conrad's first volumes by various publishers he was known and loved by a limited number of the lovers of good literature who have a knack of ferreting out true greatness even in obscure places. Yet in spite of the fact that Conrad was little short of a fetish with these people, he was not known to the great body of the public. Realizing his greatness, and having on our list as many or more of the early Conrad books as any other publishers, we set about the process of collection. Soon all the Conrad books (with one or two exceptions) were under the Double- day, Page & Company imprint and with 42 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS the concentration thus afforded it was possible to undertake a campaign which would bring the great Polish-English novelist to the attention of his potential public. Thus a total of about 200,000 copies of Conrad's books have gone to the public from the Country Life Press, and his position rests secure with the public and critics alike as one of our greatest hving masters of prose. As an example of how the concentra- tion under one imprint works, it may be interesting to note that " Lord Jim," pub- lished in 1910, is still actively selling more copies every month now than it did in the first year of its life, and "Chance," published in 19 14, which has sold more than 20,000 copies, still keeps our presses busy turning out new editions. Needless to say, "The Arrow of Gold," acclaimed a truly great literary production, was a "best seller" during the first year of its life. These three instances are enough to picture one of the things which we con- sider is fundamental in the publishing business: a close cooperation between author and publisher for a long cam- paign so that each author can get the 43 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS full effect of the cumulative effort of many years' work by the same organiza- tion. Gene Stratton-Porter's nature books and novels of mid-Western life are an- other example of the cumulative effort of author and publisher. It took two years or more of patient and painstaking effort to bring " Freckles," Mrs. Porter's first novel, to the attention of anything like its potential public. But from the time it was really discovered it accom- plished a very wide popularitw In this country about one million copies have been sold, while the total sales of all her books in America is something more than seven million. In England "Freckles" sold nearlv half a million during the War. and the popularity of her other books there has been on a similar scale. This author has been called the great- est literary missionar\' of the time. Cer- tainly she has encouraged thousands to read who were not readers before. More- over, her work according to the same critic makes such a record of the Middle West both of human manners and of Nature's wonders as no historian a hundred years from now can afford to ignore. 44 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Mrs. Porter's Nature books (with which she invariably alternates her nov- els) are written and illustrated with the most painstaking care for every point which counts so much in the observation and recording of natural phenomena. Indeed she spends more time upon the preparation of a Nature book than upon the writing of a novel, for in addition to the writing there is the necessary field work and photography. In these matters .Mrs. Porter never accepts heresay, al- ways making her own investigations, pictures, and checking up every detail to insure accuracy and authenticity. Booth Tarkington is another of the Indiana novelists whose pictures of Amer- ican life and manners will be read for generations to come. Spoken of by many as our leading American novelist he is equally appreciated by the wide popular audience and b\' the smaller and more discriminating class who can only enjoy a story of literary finish, backed by sound philosophy and something worth saying. The works of Stewart Edward White are full painted pictures of the West from the pen of a man who comprehends and can express life in the open — whether 45 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS lumbering in Michigan or California, hunting and exploring in Africa, or camp- ing in the Rockies — perhaps better than any other man writing to-day. The works of Ellen Glasgow are ac- corded foremost rank in American liter- ature. Usually set in the South, these books are inspiring studies of American character and ideals. The kindly writings of David Grayson reflect a whole philosoph\' of life which is essentially American, and as applicable to the city man or woman as to the dwell- ers in the country. " David Grayson," some one has written us, "is a writer trying to sow ideas and cultivate under- standings." The wide sale of his books is ample testimony to the author's suc- cess, in reviewing "Hempfield" the New York Times suggested that the sub-title of the book should be changed from "A Novel" to "An American Novel," "for this (book) will take its place among the group of novels that are really American through and through." In the 500 or more books that are upon our active " in print" lists there are many other books of fiction — such as those of 46 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Kathleen Norris; of "Elizabeth," author of "Christopher and Columbus," "The Caravaners," etc.; Grace S. Richmond, etc. — which we are as proud to give the public as we are proud of those mentioned above. These typical ex- amples are enough, however, to show something of the opportunities, respon- sibilities, and pleasures which have come to us in the past and which we hope to continue and multiply. In realms other than fiction similar op- portunities arise also. Obviously any publisher who takes his profession seriously would value the chance to give as wide a distribution as possible to Booker Washington's " Up From Slavery," Helen Keller's "Story of My Life," Dr. Trudeau's "An Autobiog- raphy." Such books are records of some of the great human struggles of our time. Frank H. Simonds's five-volume his- tory of the Great War, which we have been bringing out volume by volume for the past four years, is an enterprise of considerable magnitude with which we are proud to be associated. Already the first three volumes have attained wide distribution. 47 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS "The Life of J. J. Hill" is one of the great constructive chapters of our his- tory. Ambassador Morgenthau's story of the war in Constantinople and Hugh Gibson's " Diary of Our Legation in Bel- gium," and the forthcoming book by Ad- miral Sims on "The Victory at Sea "are the records of which world history are made. In somewhat less dramatic fields but still an important part of a serious pub- lisher's business are such sets as the Nature Library and the Farm Knowl- edge — books which are created with infinite care and at great expense to furnish information and inspiration in Nature study and in farming. If, perhaps, publishing has never pro- duced so far the riches which go with great trades in automobiles, steel, oil, cotton mills and like enterprises, the reader of this little record will see reasons why we none the less do not envy other callings, for the opportunity to further great ideas is a recompense in itself. 48 ■ ^ :^ ' / ^\ i^ .t^^^^C^^.^ OUNTRY LIFE PRESS GARDENS GARDEN CITY. NEW YORK LEONARD BARRON, landscape architect 'pe of the build- ing. This forecourt is divided in two even sections by a broad walk in old red brick; and each half of the court has a central pool, thirty feet in diameter, supporting an elevated basin and foun- tain where water pla)S continuously, giving the desired feeling of joyous ac- tivity that is associated with playing water. CANDYTUFT AND TULIPS 50 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS A MODEST PRIMROSE BY THE PATH Four quadrilaterals surrounding the fountain give space, each one with a central area of fine lawn enframed by ample borders of herbaceous plants, and here and there rare, low-growing ever- greens and a few dwarf deciduous flower- ing shrubs. The herbaceous collection occupying these borders is planted with informal regularity so as to permit the natural development of the individual plants in companionable masses, and the whole is designed on a scheme to give something in flower throughout the longest possible period of the year. 51 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Beginning with the Snowdrops, the whole gamut of season and color is run, till the outpost frosts of late fall ring the tocsin on the hardy Chrysanthemum and a few other late lingerers. Facing the building and the wall that LOOKING ACROSS THL PHONY BORDER TOWARD THE ROSE ARBOR frames the west end of the court is a border devoted to a collection of named H\'brid Rhododendrons, specimen Azalea Hinodigeri, Laurel or Kalmia, Pieris (Andromeda), Leucothoe, etc. And, as an edging to the main lines, the Japanese Mountain Spurge (Pachysandra) is freely THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS used because of its welcome green in winter. Looking from the building the sub- joined near-by stretches of wide lawn support a few specimen evergreens of quality such as the Chinese Short-leaved THE ROSE GARDEN AND ITS BOUNDARY WALL OF CLIMBERS Fir and thejapanese Umbrella Pine. Here, also, will be found an unusual specimen, in perfect tree-like form, of the rare native Gordonia Altamaha the habitat of which has never been rediscovered since Bartram collected it, in Georgia, which here seems to endure the most 53 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS rigorous winters, and flowers freely every year, producing its blossoms through September and October until frost calls a halt. Another tree of interesting his- tory is the Ginkgo — a prehistoric relic known mostly as a temple tree in China until the last few years. Equally attractive in the late fall are specimens of the Fire or Evergreen Thorn (Pyracantha Lalandi), which here fruits in profusion and has been described by qualified authorities such as Professor Sargent, IVlr. E. H. Wilson, and Mr. Theodore Havemeyer as one of the most unusual horticultural sights in the neigh- borhood of New York. Less conspicuous but no less worth}', but as yet too small to give much of an account of itself, is the Mount Taurus type of the Cedar of Lebanon which we hope may be a worth}' object of venera- tion in the years to come. This partic- ular type has proved absolutely hardy in the Arnold Arboretum near Boston. Immediately south of the building is the latest development of the Country Life Press Gardens which we are pleased to call, for identification, the South Park. This occupies approximately 54 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS ONE OF OUR EVERGREEN THORNS IN ITS JUNE BLOSSOMING 55 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS three acres, and the soil has been grad- ually built up, by interesting soil-build- ing experiments in the use of green cover crops, from bare, unresponsive sand and gravel to a fertile piece of land — which, this year, 191 9, has been given over to its permanent object. Here is being formed a miniature " Arboretum "^ — that is to say, a collection of trees and shrubs, hard-wooded plants of rarity, novelty, or meritorious character. Many of these — the majority indeed — hardly as yet have found their way into the channels of ordinary commerce. This feature of the gardens will be permanently de- veloped along these lines with the thought of demonstrating to our visitors some of the more note-worthy introductions from abroad, particularly of the newer dis- coveries in China. Already there are to be seen among other things collections of new Berberis, of Cotoneasters, of Spiraeas, of Bush Honeysuckles, some Rose species. Poplars, Cherries, and a selection of native Hawthorns. Bordering this park on the east is a winding walk which is destined, ulti- mately, to be developed as a displa\' ground for the American Flower Garden; s6 THE COINTRY LIFE PRESS UNDER THE ROSE ARBOR exhibiting in broad, naturalized masses the conspicuous, showy plants of our own land — a plan only just conceived, and as yet hardly taking shape. Our more conventionally minded visi- tors will fmd in the Rose Garden, framed 57 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS A CORNER OF THE NEW ROCK GARDEN 58 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS by its rustic pergola of Red Cedar, a demonstration collection of Hybrid Roses, which carry the season of bloom into well past mid-summer. For the specialist there are other ob- jects of interest. For instance, the Bok collection of German Iris presented to the Country Life Press by Mr. Edward Bok, of Philadelphia, comprises more than two hundred varieties of the most typical groups of the germanica Irises. The pool, entirely enclosed in tall cedars, forms a green winter outdoor room quite original and Italian in effect. It is at the northerly end of a long path- way which to the south runs through the cedar room where stands a big Printers' Sun Dial, showing the printers' marks of the first hundred \ears of the art. This sun dial was designed by a friend, Mr. Walter Gilliss, and is described by him elsewhere in this booklet. Then the Peony collection flanking two sides of a walk about two hundred and fifty feet in length embraces what was the collection of about two hundred and fifty varieties established by the American Peony Society in its trial grounds at Cornell Universit\-. When S9 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS that test collection was being broken up the Country Life Press acquired posses- sion of these interesting specimens b\' purchase. The plants are well estab- lished, and each year flower in profusion. Since the original purchase a few modern additions have been made including some of the Brand Peonies from the West. Beyond the Peony collection and at the extreme end of the Country Life Press grounds is a small but very effec- tive and interesting collection of rock and alpine plants set in suitable sur- roundings. Here there have been estab- lished nearly three hundred varieties of those intriguing little jewels that would be lost if set in larger and broader treat- ment elsewhere. In connection with these permanent features there are annual demonstration gardens in the ordinar\' culinary crops that also supply the dining rooms of the Press with fresh vegetables and small fruits. 60 THE EVERGREEN GARDEN The evergreen garden is given a sepa- rate paragraph because it is something different and apart from the other fea- tures of the grounds. Here arranged in balanced harmony in beds of geometric form, the whole enclosed by a hedge of Hemlock, will be found a demonstration collection of coniferous evergreens of un- usual interest and merit, together with a few of the broad-leaved plants. The components of this collection change from time to time as perfection in selection is striven for. Many plants THE CENTRE OF THE EVERGREEN GARDEN 6i THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS fry- A CORNER OF THE EVERGREEN (,.\KI)1 N, WITH ITS NEWLY BOX-EDGED PATHS 62 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS that have been set out here have refused to endure the trying conditions of the American winter. Their places are being filled by other plants of different char- acter, with the intimate object of build- ing up in this evergreen garden a col- lection of ornamental evergreens thor- oughl>' adapted to the climate of the region. Not only are the ordinary pop- ular evergreens to be found here but numerous others; especially dwarf forms of various species including a collection of the latest Chinese discoveries of both iMr. E. H. Wilson and H. Meyer. The design of this evergreen garden is based on the conventional plan of a well known rose garden in Europe. The grass walk enables the visitor to wander about from plant to plant and familiarize himself with the different species and varieties of which there are in all some- where in the neighborhood of one hun- dred and fifty distinct kinds. If the reader has had the patience to follow our observations as far as this we feel sure of his good-will, for nothing but friendliness and courtesy would have kept him reading so long, and we hope he will bear with us for the personal 63 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS character of these pages, wish us all he finds it in his heart to feel for our plans and aims, and when opportunity serves visit us at Garden City where he will be made most welcome. Guides who will show visitors through the plant and grounds are always at your service. M ^ ::^: J**'^,. "■j*v ■ ["V.^v^ ^JL/l *^'^.> HYACINTHS AND WHITE ARABIS 64 THE BUILDING IS not our intention to weary the reader with a description of the pro- cesses which are followed to make either a book or a magazine, and yet a few words about the building and its equip- ment may not be amiss. The machinery is of the newest type, little having been brought from the old plant in New York. IN THE HOSPITAL 65 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS WHERE TYPE IS SET BY HAND The arrangement of the building for hand- ling the books and magazines was most important. It has interested some friends THE. PRESIDENT S OFFICE 66 THE COUNTRY LIFH PRESS AN AISLE IN THE PRESS ROOM to note that the paper comes from the freight cars direct!}- on the second floor into the press room, and goes to the cars THE CONFERENCE ROOM 67 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS IN THE BOOK BINDERS as a finished product at the south end, in a straight Hne of manufacturing pro- cesses and on a single level, overcoming the expense, delay, and spoilage caused by lifting the printed sheets from floor to floor by elevators. On the third floor, besides the offices, art departments, edi- torial departments for books and maga- zines, subscription department, cashier's office, etc., etc., is the large composing room, and in separate and roomy apart- ments, but opening into the main room, are the type-setting machinery (Lanston) department and the electrotype foundry. 68 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS BINDING MAGAZINES TO OPEN FLAT A rather unusual feature of the Coun- try Life Press is that the manufacturing departments have all been started well- grown — we hope not yet full-grown — but arranged as a new proposition (in- stead of an old one built piecemeal) and so planned that the plant may be in- creased if occasion demands (which we hope it will) to three times the present capacity without displacing the practical course of efficient, continuous operation now being carried out, and so arranged that other buildings can be added with- out interfering with the plan of manu- 6g THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS facturing. To those interested the Country Life Press shows the problem worked out in one structural operation. The architects have tried also to make the building attractive, although held down by the necessity of the most ad- vantageous working conditions. There is practically no spot as much as forty feet from a window: there is no lack of abundant light on even the lowest of the three floors. If figures are of interest it may be said that the Country Life Press is more than 450 feet long, the wings 200 feet in depth, thus making the court, already described, in the front of the building. Inside the building there are 250 miles of piping and 200 miles of electric wire, and more than a mile and a half of curtain fabric a }ard wide was used at the win- dows. We have intended to miss no good thing needed for comfortable and efficient working; the plumbing is ade- quate and of a high standard, a vacuum cleaner with an outlet every 73 feet throughout the entire building makes it possible to take all dust from floors and machiner)' every night. The ven- tilation is ample, and there are dining THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS rooms and kitchens, and the vacuum sys- tem of steam heating from the engine ex- haust. Many thousand gallons of water an hour are pumped from our own wells; plent>' for building and grounds, pool and THE MACHINE THAT ASSEMBLES SUCCESSIVE PARTS OF MAGAZINE OR BOOK IN ORDER fountains, as well as for the gardens, and the air pressure tanks in the ground keep the water cool for drinking. As the structure is of steel and concrete it is entireK' fireproof, the insurance being about one thirtieth of the rate formerly paid in New York. A complete "sprink- ling system" helps to make us feel free of fire dread. The library, overlooking the court, is a THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS room of considerable size, done in Caen stone and red gum panelling. Set into the middle of the mantel is the bronze tablet herein reproduced, which rightly has the place of honor in the whole building. This tablet was presented to the firm of Doubleday, Page Sc Company by their co-workers on the tenth anniversary of the founding of their business. U L R a i A 1 i o .\ 72 THE SUN DIAL BY WALTER GILLISS dedicated to that f.4ir art which doth allow man's mind to fix its thought upon the virgin page and so transmit itself from age to age ^ the southerly end of the garden of the Country Life Press, where the path which leads down from the Italian Pool enters a special "cedar room" — there has been placed a Sun Dial. It was about February, 1910, that a representative of Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company called upon the writer and expressed their desire that a table be designed bearing the marks of early printers. It was finally decided that this 73 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS table should be made in the form of a Sun Dial to be placed in the garden. In casting about for a central feature for the Dial nothing seemed so fitting as an open book; and of books there seemed to be but one to be desired above all others — the Bible of Fort)'-two Lines, printed by Gutenberg at Mainz in 1455; a book preeminent not only because the "Book of Books," but by reason of its being the first printed book, and one which, after nearly half a thousand years, with its noble t>'pe, ample margins and brilliant black ink, stands out as one of the best examples of bookmaking in ex- istence to-day. The writer had the good fortune of seeing a vellum copy of this great book in the library of the late Robert Hoe many years ago and the recollection of it remained, and it was this particular cop\' of the Bible, which, having been acquired b\' Mr. Henry E. Huntington for ^50,000 (a sum greater than ever before paid for a printed book) was, on a da>' in June, 191 1, taken to the roof of the Metropoli- tan Club of New York, where, with the kindly assistance of Mr. Huntington, the large size negatives were made from which 74 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS THE DIAL IN ITS CEDAR ROOM the Bible plate resulted, and by means of which many who may never have an opportunity of seeing this noble book, may see a faithful reproduction of it in brass, even to the illumination — in the exact size of the original. /? THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS The form of the Dial is that of a 41- degree elHpse, 65IX78J inches; this form, as well as the unusuall}' large size having been determined by the dimensions of the Bible, which lies open at the nine- teenth chapter of the Book of Job — that great chapter in which he speaks of the immortality of the soul— the twent\- third verse of which, in the English trans- lation, reads: "Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book" Above, and at the sides of the Bible, are twelve hour-spaces bearing the marks of twelve of the early printers, so dis- posed, that at noon, the shadow rests full across the centre of the Bible, and passes first over the earliest of all printers' marks — that of Fust and SchoeflFer. Below the Bible, in the lower section of the oval, appears the inscription: O measure of time! Thou merest mite within the endless providence of God May thy unerring finger ever point To those who printed first the written word. 76 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS The Dial was planned to cover only the first century of the Art of Printing (1455-1555) from Gutenberg to Plantin; Gutenberg, who used no mark, being represented by his famous Bible. THE FACE OF THE DIAL The marks selected were chosen as being the first to appear in each of the several countries into which the Art of Printing made its way at a very early date, or because of the distinguished place attained by the printer, either by reason of exceptional skill as a printer, or because of some other successful achievement. Owing to the variation in the size as well as the character of the marks they 77 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS v^l m were so arranged as to secure a harmoni- ous and well balanced design, the chrono- logical order being disregarded except as to the first and last. Counting from the noon hour, they are arranged in the following order: I. FUST & SCHOEFFER, I457 Fust & SchoeflFer were the successors of Gutenberg and printers of the " Psalter of 1457." This book, at least as rare as the Bible of Forty-two Lines, is the first book in which a printer's mark appeared, and the first book bearing a printed date. II. BERNARDINUS DE VITALIBUS, I494 This device is more decorative and more carefully engraved than most of the marks of the time. It was taken from an edition of Caesar's Commentaries, printed at Venice in 15 17 from Roman types (similar to those used by Jenson). III. HANS & PAUL HURUS, I488 This mark has the distinction of being the first Spanish printer's mark. The brothers Hurus were associated together in Saragossa from 1488 until 1490, and it was in an edition of the " Royal Or- THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS dinances of Castille," printed by them in Saragossa in 1490, that the mark first appeared. IV. ALDUS, 1494 Not onl>' as printer, but as editor and publisher, Aldus Manutius stands pre- eminent among Italian printers. His works are to be found in innumerable libraries to-day, and his mark of the anchor and dolphin, known throughout the world, has been adopted in var}ing form., b)- many printers, from his own time to the present day. Pickering used it with the legend, " Aldi Anglus Discip." Aldus's attainments were such that he gained the friendship of the ablest scholars of his time, who aided him in his work; and he also numbered among his friends Jean Grolier — one of the greatest patrons of printing and binding. 1 1 was Aldus who gave to the world that distinctive t>pe — now known as Italic — which was fashioned after the beauti- fully formed characters of the hand- writing of the poet Petrarch. Although Aldus began printing in 1494, his mark was not adopted until 1502. Many authorities claim that the 79 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS mark first appeared in the "Statius'' of 1502, the imprint of which reads: VENETIIS IN AEDIBUS ALDE MENDE AV GUSTO M DII Aldus died in 1515, in comparative poverty. Mr. De Vinne says of him, ''he had the money-getting but not the money-keeping faculty. Whether he sold folios at high price or octavos at low price, the result was the same. Directly or indirectly, he gave to the book buyer quite as much as he received.'' V. jENSON, 1471 One of the most noted of the Venetian printers, and the first to use Roman types was Nicolas Jenson. The Jenson mark, a sphere surmounted by a double cross, which has been inter- preted to symbolize the world and its Christian rulership, was often used throughout Italy subsequent to its adop- tion by him. The writer has, in fact, found upward of seventy variations of the Jenson mark which were used in Italy between 1481 and 1525 — in many cases the initials of the printer appearing within the circle. 80 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS The double cross is also found in some Spanish, French, and other marks. VI. CAXTON, 1477 William Caxton, the first and greatest of the English printers exercised his art at Westminster, 1477-1491. He was born about 1422, was apprenticed to a merchant and afterward went to Bruges. From a little volume entitled "The Story of Books,'' by Gertrude Burford Rawlings, I quote: "Where Caxton gain- ed his knowledge of printing is a matter of dispute. Mr. Blades holds that he was taught by Colard Mansion, the first printer of Bruges, others that he learned at Cologne.'' The first book printed by Caxton, probably at Bruges, is "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye," about 1475, and it is the first book printed in the English language, and was followed by "Ye Game and Playe of Chesse," now thought to have been printed at Bruges. Caxton returned to England about 1476. He began to print at Westminster in 1477, but it was not until later that he used a mark. Roberts, claims that it was first used about Christmas, 1489, 81 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS in the second folio edition of the Sarum "Ordinale." The exact meaning of the monogram in Caxton's mark is not known, but it is generall\- beHeved to stand for W. C. 74. Blades believes that it refers to the date of printing of "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" — the first product of Caxton's typographical skill. VII. WYNKYN DE WORDE, 1 49 1 On the death of Caxton in 1491, \\'}'nkyn de W'orde, a native of Holland and for a long time Caxton's assistant, succeeded him and continued to print at Westminster, and from his presses came man\' books which were noted for their typographical excellence. De Worde printed among other works an edition of the "Golden Legend" the vellum edition of which printed b\- Wil- liam Morris is one of the noblest examples of nineteenth century printing. VIII. THE ST. ALBANS PRINTER, I480 It is the printing of the "Book of St. Albans" which has made famous its printer, who is referred to by Wynkyn de Worde as a "Schoolmaster of St. Alban." The first edition containing 82 THE COUNTRY LH E PRESS treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Coat-Armor was printed at St. Albans in i486. The second edition, printed by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496, contained, also, "The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle." IX. THIERRY MARTENS, 1 474 Martens, referred to as Erasmus's printer appears first as having been associated with John of Paderborn, in Alost, a town near Brussels in 1473. He set up his first press in Alost in 1474, and continued to print there for about two years. In 1477 he went to Spain, where the earliest ro\al decree known to exist regarding the art of printing in Europe was issued for his benefit by Ferdinand and Isabella, under date of December 25, 1477. The mark of Mar- tens (a double anchor) has, seemingly, never been imitated. X. GUILLAUME LE ROUGE, I489 Probabl)' the son of Pierre le Rouge, Guillaume le Rouge, not unnaturall\- practised the same art. His first press was at Chablis, where-in 1489 he printed " Les Expositions des Evangiles en Fran- "3 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS fais/' from a copy of which the mark was reproduced. Three years later, he printed at Troves, and finally established himself at Paris. XI. GERING & REMBOLT, I47O |-^ The first book printed in Paris was '^Hr printed by Ulrich Gering, Michel Fri- burger and Martin Krantz, three Ger- mans who had been brought to Paris from Mainz by Jean Heinlin de La Pierre and Guillaume Fichet, two pro- fessors of the Sorbonne, where the first press was set up. A second press was set up at the "Soleil d'Or'' in 1473. Gering was left alone in 1477. In 1494 he formed a partnership with Bertold Rembolt and it was during this partner- ship (which continued until 1509), that they used the mark — which had pre- viously been used by Rembolt alone. XIL PLANTIN, 1555 Closing the century we come to Chris- topher Plantin who began his work in Antwerp in 1555. Plantin is justly esteemed one of the greatest of the early printers. He was great in his concep- tions; great in his work and great in 84 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS being the only one of the early printers whose "office" with its matrices and molds, and types, and its woodcuts, and copperplates, and presses continued in his family in an unbroken line of descent for more than a quarter-thousand years — and now, as a museum, stands as one of the greatest attractions of Antwerp. Plantin planned and produced the Poly- glot Bible — a great folio in eight volumes printed in Hebrew, Chaldaic, Greek, and Latin — in fine, double-column pages. Although brought to the verge of ruin by this great project, the monopoly of the printing of the service books and Bibles for the use of the Roman Church in Spain and its dependencies in course of time restored his fortunes, and main- tained the fortunes of his successors for many years. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DIAL The pedestal of the Dial, designed by Mr. John H. Petit, the architect of The Country Life Press, is of concrete, carried three and a half feet below the surface of the ground, so as to be below the frost line. The rim of the dial is of brass, cast by the John Williams Company, Inc. 85 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Within the rim of brass an iron bottom is securely fastened, and, by means of "lugs" this iron bottom is anchored into the pedestal so that the Dial from its face to the bottom of the pedestal is one solid construction and should outlast many generations. The face of the Dial is of cement with inlays of brass; each fastened by "lugs" and screws to the iron bottom of the rim, over which there is a la>'er of rough cement three inches in thickness faced with white cement, in which the brasses are inserted. These brasses were made by the engraving department of The Country Life Press. The lettering of the Bible is filled in with a composition, said by Mr. de Kosenko, of the Sterling Bronze Co., to be the same as that used in the memorial brasses in Westminster Abbe\-, and burnt in, and also burnt a second time after the retouches were made upon the capitals. Naturally the time-telling attributes of the dial are scientificall}' accurate — but it takes no account of "daylight-saving." It is hoped that those who come to view this Dial may come but to view and not to harm, that the Bible which 86 THK COUNTRY LIFE PRESS lies open upon its face may remain through the years to come, a.> it ever has been since the invention ot the Art of Printing - an open book for the edi- fication of the people, and the greatest of forces for the regeneration of the world. 'n DOUBLEDAY PAGEcScCO.'S BOOK SHOPS TN THECityof New York Doubleday, Page & Com- pany are at this time con- ducting three retail book shops where our own and the books of other pub- Hshers are offered for sale in attractive and convenient quarters. Each of these shops is in a distinct neighborhood, where it serves a community need. The shop in the Pennsylvania Terminal Arcade, which is a continuance of 32nd Street at 7th Avenue, serves the traveler who fmds in his journey an opportunity to read. It serves too, the commuter, who, by experience, has found it well equipped with books of every description. He has become accustomed to buying his books in this shop, where he alwa>'s fmds someone interested in his problem of book selection, and someone with a knowledge of book news. iMost important of all he fmds here the desire for an opportunity to serve him. It is on this reputation of 89 90 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS service well rendered that this shop has built its enviable reputation. It opens its grilled gate at 8 o'clock every morning except Sunda\- and is busy until 10.30 at night greeting old friends and new. The Lord cS: Ta\ior Book Shop, which is housed in the Lord & Taylor store on Fifth Avenue at 38th Street, is not a '^book department," but a librarv sales room for the Fifth Avenue shopper and a mecca for many book lovers. What it lacks in size is offset b\' its attrac- tive interior, its well-selected stock of all except technical books, and we hope by the helpfulness of the people in the shop. It is of interest to observe that during one Christmas season seventy-five per cent, of these sales people were gradu- ates of American colleges and universities — a small company of book lovers and congenial comrades to the book-loving bu\er. In this shop there are often interesting displa\s of first editions, manuscripts, fine bindings, and other similar attractions. Three large windows facing on 38th Street offer an excellent opportunit}' for the display of the books which are or which should be the books of the hour. So long as space was avail- 9« 92 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS able in the Lord & Taylor building for lectures, many such were held under the auspices of the book shop. While the Lord &: Taylor Book Shop is conducted by Doubleday, Page & Company it is affili- ated with Lord & Taylor in such a manner that the book buyer has all the advantages of Lord & Taylor's great store. Liberty Tower Book Shop is situated in the heart of New York's financial district, at 55 Liberty Street, on the northwest corner of Liberty and Nassau streets. This shop appeals to the great downtown district with we hope good service to its customers. Here, the banker, the lawyer, the insurance man, the broker, and all other professional and business men of this district find a neighborhood shop which makes a point of useful assistance. What might seem to the average book shop an imposition is to this shop an opportunity. Here, too, the book buyer will find intelligent and interesting attention to his every book want. In the half-mile circle about this shop are perhaps the greatest and most alert brains of New York. Month by month its custom increases and its list of friends grows. 93 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS In the fall of 1919 a new book shop, the fourth of the Doubledax' Page group, has been started in St. Louis, Missouri, where, strangel\' enough, no retail shop devoted wholl\' to books has existed for some vears. All Doubleda\', Page & Compan\- book shops are operated under a centralized management, which is the insurance of a uniform attitude. The shops frequentlx' plan unusual selling campaigns and in- teresting experiments in book selling. An instance in point is the " Book Shelf of Modern Poets Compiled by Amy Lowell, Especially for Doucleday, Page & Com- pany's Book Shops." Miss Lowell has in this selection included the poets whom she considers the outstanding figures in modern poetry and all the shops have for inspection and sale this " Book Shelf/' These Doubledax', Page & Compan\- book shops are operated to help the book buyer to get what he needs, and to supply information, and, if asked for, advice — not alwa\s eas\' to fmd, even in book stores. 94 ABOUT OUR AUTHORS EFERENCE has already been made in these pages to some of the authors whose names have graced the catalogue of Double- day, Page & Company; and in a small book of this sort it is manifestly impossible to include a list of 1,200 or more books, notwithstanding the interest of the books themselves. From time to time little monographs have been written about some of the authors, most if not all of whose works we have published; and we venture to think that those who are so kind as to be interested in this house will be glad to have these monographs although some- what abridged. The success of any publishing house is built upon the quality and popularity of the books they issue; the final achieve- ment, in other words, is founded on the authors who write these books. Nothing, therefore, could give us more satisfaction 95 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS than to put down here, if space permitted, the names and histories of all the authors who have loyally supported the ideals which are being worked out at the Coun- try Life Press. If, in the old days at 34 Union Square, New York, when the house was having its first struggles to get upon its feet, and a royalty report was a pitifully small matter, we could have visioned all our author partners who have thrown their fortunes in with ours, we should have been mightily encouraged. Yet we still feel that our work has just begun, and in this book about the Country Life Press we are glad to take this chance to thank our authors for their confidence, their courtesy, and their unfailing good-will. 96 JOSEPH CONRAD JOSEPH CONRAD A Pen Poriraii BY JAMES HUNEKER E IS not so tall as he seems. He is \ery restless. He paces an imagi- nary quarterdeck and occasionally peers through the little windows of his quaint house as if searching the weather. .-X caged sea lion, 1 thought. His shrug and play of hands are Gallic, or Polish, as you please, and his e\es, shining or clouded, are not of our race, they are Slavic; even the slightly muffled voice is Slavic. One of the most beautiful languages is the Polish — the French of the Slav tongues as it has been called. When Mr. Conrad speaks English, which he does with rapidity and clearness of enunciation, you can hear, rather overhear, the foreign cadence, the soft slurring of sibilants so characteristic of Polish speech; in a word, he is more foreign looking than 1 had expected. He speaks French with fluency and purity, ajid he often lapsed into it during our con- versation. Like many another big man, he asked more questions than he answered mine. 1 under- went the same experience with Walt Whitman at Camden, who was an adept in the gentle art of pumping \isitors. In the case of Joseph Conrad his curiosity is prompted by his boundless sympathy for all things human. He is, as you may have sur- mised by his writings, the most human and lovable of men. He takes an interest in everything except bad art, which moves him to a vibrating indigna- tion, and he is extremely sympathetic when speak- 93 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS ing of the work of his contemporaries. What a lesson for the critic with the barbed-wire method would be the remarks of Conrad upon art and artists! Naturally, he has his gods, his halfgods, and his major detestations. The Bible and Flau- bert were his companions throughout the many years he voyaged in strange, southern seas. From the Bible he absorbed his racy, idiomatic, and di- apasonic English; from the supple shining prose of the great French writer he learned the art of writing sentences, their comely shape, and vigorous, rhyth- mic gait, their color, perfume; the passionate music of words and their hateful power. He also studied other masters. He is an admirer of Poe, Haw- thorne, Walt Whitman, and Henry James among American writers. 100 THE ROMANTIC STORY OF JOSEPH CONRAD I In 1874 a Polish lad, seventeen years of age, born and brought up far removed from sight or sound of the ocean, determined to go to sea. It had been the dream of his boyhood. Standing as a child before a map of the world he had placed his fmger upon it saying: "I shall go there," there being the Congo. And to the Congo he finally went. In the face of strong parental opposition the lad actually went to sea, shipping at Marseilles. After three years' service he put foot for the first time on Eng- lish soil. He spoke French fluently in addition to his native tongue, but not one word of English did he know. Twenty years later, or in 1894, after continuous service in the British Merchant Marine, this same lad, then a man of thirty-seven, quit the sea for good with the manuscript of an unfinished novel in his bag. Till then the novel had had but one reader besides the author: a young Cambridge student, outward bound to .'\ustralia, who died shortly after the vessel touched. Are you curious to know the name of this Polish sailor just stepping ashore and destined to begin a new career strangely different from his sea life? Would you like to know what became of the manuscript he had in his bag — what its name was? The manuscript was that of "Almayer's Folly." The sailor-author, by that time a naturalized lOI THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS British subject and many times officer and master of various craft, was Joseph Conrad. Comment can lend little to the essential romance of these facts. They are of the unbelievable things — a web spun of chance such as Conrad himself has woven in his tales. What more improbable than that a Polish youth, born inland, should have a passion for a seafaring life; that he should choose English for his speech above the Polish and French that he knew; that he should set down, in the odd moments of a sailor's busy life, and in grave doubt of its worth, a story of his adventures in the Mala- van .\rchipelago; and that this book, when com- pleted, should mark his entrance as a permanent figure into English literature? .And yet this is pre- cisely what happened to Joseph Conrad. Some of the remarkable features of his caste struck his examiner when he presented himself for a commission in the British merchant service, for the official asked: "You are of Polish extraction?" .\nd then: "Not many of your nationality in our service. . . . An inland people, aren't you?" Upon which Conrad comments: "\'ery much so. We were remote from the sea, not only by situation, but also from a complete absence of indirect communication, not being a commercial nation at all, but purely agricultural." During the twenty years of his life at sea Conrad visited almost every corner of the globe except North America. A chart, just completed, of the location of his stories indicates China, India, the Malay Archipelago, Sumatra, Australia, South America, both west and east coasts, the West 102 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Indies, the Congo, the Red Sea, Spain, France, England, and Russia. On a large part of his journeyings, now as ordinary seaman, then officer, and finally master, the manu- script of "Almayer's Folly" accompanied Conrad, erowing a little at a time. It was begun when he was about thirty-two and was still unfmished when he came ashore in 1894, broken in health by a ter- rible experience in the Congo. The story was completed a short time later and we learn from G. F. \V. Hope, an old sea friend of Conrad's who sailed in the Duke of Sutherland, that Conrad came occasionally to the Hope home near by in Essex County to read portions of the story aloud to them. It is to Mr. and .Mrs. Hope that "Lord Jim" is dedicated. How "Almayer's Folly" was read by Edward Garnett for an English publisher and issued in 1895; and how Conrad's first substantial recogni- tion came in 1897 when W. E. Henley published "The Nigger of the Narcissus" in The New Review (adding at its close a preface which has since become a classic as the artist's profession of faith, and which was inexplicably suppressed when the book was first published) are all chapters in the amazing story of Joseph Conrad that surpasses in romantic realism anything he has written. For the last two or three years the influence of Joseph Conrad has been growing steadily in this country. There has been a widespread awakening to the wonder and beauty and fascination of his tales. Everywhere one finds him spoken of, but for the most part merely as the author of this or that book and with only meagre information of his 103 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS own extraordinary life. Now it is quite true that one can read and understand and enjoy Joseph Conrad's stories without any knowledge of his per- sonal history. He needs no interpreter — his books require no key. Talk to the contrary is stupid and uninformed, and chiefly the result of ignorance of his stories. No writer of English touches more directly or more surely the abiding human emotions. At the same time it is difficult to think of any other great writer at all comparable to Conrad be- tween whose chosen work and whose writing there appears to be such a complete volte-face, and yet between which there is so real a dependence and gracious spiritual relation. Conrad is not just "writing stories"; his books, in very truth, are fruits in the spiritual order of the grace of the sea; they are acts of piety to the memory of those days when chance, blind and inscrutable, marked him with the indelible sign of the sea. That is the illumination for all who will read the record of Joseph Conrad's life. And having once grasped this truth, his stories are forever unfolding in one's mind unguessed meanings full of the loveliness of mirrored youth, of that "something sentient which seems to dwell in ships," and of a filial devotion to the life of the sea. The biographical matter that follows, together with the summary of the books, is taken in a much condensed form from Richard Curie's "Joseph Conrad," a recent work which it will well repay the reader to consult in connection with Conrad's stories. E. F. Saxton. 104 II Biographical and Autobiographical {Condensed from Richard Curie' s "Joseph Conrad") Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine in the South of Poland on 6th Decem- ber, 1857. 'ri 1 86 1 he removed to Warsaw with his parents, and in 1862 his father, who had been deeply implicated in the last Polish rebellion, was banished to Vologda by the Russian Government. His wife and son followed him into exile. In 1865 Conrad's mother died and his father sent him back to the Ukraine to stay with his maternal uncle (who is spoken of with such affectionate regard in "Some Reminiscences")*, where he remained for five years. That was the happiest period of Con- rad's childhood — this home life of the country con- sciously enjoyed and revelled in. Conrad's first recollection of public matters was the liberation of the serfs, on the committee of which his uncle was one of the leading spirits. In 1869 Conrad's father was freed on the ground that he was too ill to be dangerous any longer. He carried off his son to Cracow, the old Polish capital, and died there in 1870. Conrad was sent to the gymnasium of St. Anne, the foremost public school of the city. There he came under the care of a tutor who influenced him profoundly and who, according to "Some Reminiscences," was a man of remarkable intuition. He was put forward by the relations to counteract Conrad's strange and inborn desire for a sea-life, but after some earnest and futile talks he realized ^Published in the United States under the title "A Personal Record." 105 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS that his efforts would he useless and ceased to trouble the boy. Conrad's decision was, indeed, final. Brought up in a country without a coast, in a society where he saw no English (though he knew some of the finest English literature from translations by his father), he had yet resolved that he would be an English seaman of the merchant service. And against all obstacles he carried out his plan. It was in 1874 that he went to sea. Marseilles was his "jumping- off ground," but it was some years before he was able to sail under the Red Ensign. For it was not till three years later that he set foot in England. Before that he had some adventures in the Mediter- ranean and had twice been to the West Indies. He calls this his wild-oats-sowing period. In May, 1878, he landed at Lowestoft and first touched English soil. At that time he did not know a word of English, but he learnt it rapidly, being helped in a general sense, to some extent, by a local boat- builder who understood French. For five months he was on board a Lowestoft coaster. The Skimmer of the Seas, that traded between that port and New- castle. In October, 1878, he joined the Duke of Sutherland, bound for Australia, as ordinary sea- man. Of eighteen men before the mast all were English save Conrad, a Norwegian, two Americans, and a St. Kitts Negro called James W^ait — a name used just twenty years later for the Negro in " Phe Nigger of the Narcissus. " From now onward till 1894, when he finally left the sea, Conrad's life was the usual life of a deep- water seaman. He passed for second mate in 1879 and became a Master in the English Merchant 106 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Ser\ ice in the }ear of his naturalization in 1884. In 1890 and again in 1894 (the year before his uncle's death) he revisited the Ukraine. 1 think 1 cannot give a better glimpse of Conrad's existence during all these years than by jotting down in order a rough list of the ships he served in, either as orticer or in command, from 1880 till 1894. f his is a list 1 scribbled from Conrad's dictation, and against each name he has added the titles of those stories of his which the dilferent ships suggest. Of course this must be taken for what it is worth — a single episode, perhaps only a single name, in a story may be associated with a certain ship, or, on the other hand, the whole story may be strongly autobiographical and reminiscent. .And then, again, different memories are sometimes welded together into one story. In "Chance," for in- stance, there is an episode connected with the Rivers- dale and another connected with the Torrens. However, here is the list: 1 gi\e the ships, and then, in brackets, I give the stories they individually call up in Conrad's mind. Loch-Etke . . ["The Mirror of the Sea"] Palestine . . ["Youth"] Riversdalc . . ["The Mirror of the Sea"; "Chance"] Narcissus . . ["The Nigger of the Nar- cissus"; "The Mirror of the Sea"] S.S. John P. Best . ["Typhoon"] Tilkhurst . . ["The Mirror of the Sea"] Falcouhiirsi . [" Ihe Mirror of the Sea"] Highland Forest ["The Mirror of the Sea"] 107 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS S.S. yidar . . . [All the Malay books; "Ty- phoon"; "Some Remi- niscences"] Otago . . . ["Falk"; "'Twixt Land and Sea"; "The Mirror of the Sea"; "Some Remi- niscences"] S.S. Roi de Beiges . ["An Outpost of Progress"; " Heart of Darkness"] Torrens . . ["Chance"; "The Mirror of the Sea"; "Some Remi- niscences"] S.S. Adowa . . . ["Some Reminiscences"] In 1894 Conrad finally left the sea. He had never fully recovered from a severe fever that had invalided him from the Congo, and his health was now more or less broken. He did not know what to do with himself (he had still some idea of going to sea again), but, almost as an afterthought, he sent in to Fisher Unwin the no\el which he had begun about 1889 and which he had completed in odd moments — the novel of "Almayer's Folly." After waiting for three or four months he heard, to his intense surprise, that it was accepted (Edward Garnett, as reader, was responsible) and from henceforward his life is mainly the history of his books, and does not concern us. 1 will just add that he married in 1896 and has since lived mostly in Kent where he still resides. The turmoil of a creator's existence has no outward adventure save the merit and reception of his creations, and in that (amongst other things) it differs from the wild and vigorous life of the sea. For long Conrad was only the novelist of a small following (it was a landmark 108 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS in his career when Henley accepted "The Nigger of the Narcissus" for The New Review in 1897), but, as every one knows, that following has widened till it now represents the whole intellectual world. Of Conrad's two books of memories and impres- sions, "The Mirror of the Sea" (1906) is the first. It may be described as a sort of prose-poem about the sea, and a poem founded not alone upon flights of imagery but upon profound realism and knowledge of detail. Its basis of personal reminiscence ex- pands in the rare qualities of poetry and romance. "The Mirror of the Sea" is the most eloquent of all Conrad's books. "Some Reminiscences" (American ed. "A Per- sonal Record"), 1912, followed six years later. Less eloquent than "The Mirror of the Sea," it is more urbane and more closely knit. His descrip- tions of people such as his uncle, his tutor, and the original of .'\lmayer, are telling in the accuracy and detail of the portraits, and the whole book is en- livened by the firm lightness of his touch. More- over, it contains passages of exceptional splendor. To read these books sympathetically is to under- stand Conrad's attitude toward life and art. His works should never again be mysterious to us, as the works of the few men of real temperamental genius are so apt to be. These two books of Conrad's are the true "open sesame" to his novels and stories. Ill Novels and Stories (Condensed from Richard Curie's "Joseph Conrad") Up to the present Conrad has published ten novels (two of them in collaboration with Ford 109 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Madox Hueffer) and five volumes of stories. I will examine his own novels to begin with. His first book is "Almayer's Folly" (1895). This "story of an Eastern River" is one of illusion, weariness, and irresistible passion. Almayer is the white trader, the only white trader, of Sambir, a distant and obscure settlement up the river Pantai of an island in the Dutch East Indies, it is not one of Conrad's easiest stories to read. But it is an imposing effort of its kind, this sinister revelation of a tropical backwater. Conrad's next book is "An Outcast of the Islands" (1896). This is another tragic story of Sambir and the Pantai, and it would be almost better to con- sider it before ".Almayer's Folly" because it treats of a date fifteen to twenty years anterior to that novel. In "An Outcast of the Islands" Almayer is still young. The story is one of \iolent emotion soon spent — like a tropical downpour. There is scheming in it, hatred, and passion. As in "Alma- yer's Folly" the teeming, patient, and silent life of the wilds weighs upon every person and thing, coloring the whole aspect of nature not only in a material but in a spiritual sense. "The Nigger of the Narcissus" (1899) is Conrad's third novel. It is the story of one voyage of the sailing-ship Narcissus from Bombay to London — a story dealing with calms and with storms, with mutiny on the high seas, with bravery and with cowardice, with tumultuous life, and with death, the releaser from toil. This is one of Conrad's most original conceptions. He alone has ever written such a book. It has the vividness of an actual experience touched by the magic glitter of no THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS remembrance. The descriptions of the sea and of the life on board are strangely beautiful. "Lord Jim" (1900) is fourth in the list. It is a story of remorse and of the effort to regain self- respect for a deed of fatal and unexpected coward- ice. The sea and secluded Eastern settlements are the background. There can be little doubt that Conrad's fame as a novelist rests chiefly upon "Lord Jim." And perhaps the main reason for this is that it raises a fierce moral issue in a very definite form and carries it through on a high level of creative intensity. "Nostromo" (1903) is the fifth novel by Conrad. It is the history of a South American revolution. But on this leading theme there hang a multitude of side-issues and of individual experiences, in this story of vast riches, of unbridled passions, of patriotism, of greed, of barbaric cruelty, of the most debased and of the most noble impulses, the whole history of South .-Xmerica seems to be epitomized. "Nostromo" is Conrad's longest novel, and, in my opinion, it is by far his greatest. It is a book singularly little known and one which many people find a difficulty in reading (probably owing to the confused way in which time is indicated), but it is one of the most astounding tours de force in all lit- erature. For sheer creative genius it overtops all Conrad's work. In Contrast to "Nostromo," "The Secret Agent" (1907) is a comparatively simple book. It is a novel treating of the underworld of London life — the underworld of anarchists and spies. Verloc. "the secret agent," is ostensibly an anarchist, but in reality a spy of one of the big embassies. I II THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS "Under Western Eyes" (191 1) gets its name from the fact that it is told by an old English teacher of languages in Geneva, partly in his own words and partly from a diary. The book is written with great precision and subtlety of language, and marks a step forward in Conrad's exactitude of style. The description of the winter night of Rus- sia, of the Russian colony in Geneva, and of the sister and mother of Haldin are particularly striking. "Chance" (1914) is Conrad's latest novel. As its name implies, the irony of chance is the leading link of the whole structure. This is probably the hardest of Conrad's books about which one can make any conclusive judgment. Admirers of his earlier work may consider it almost arid, but that is simply to misunderstand the recent development of Conrad's art. For the truth is that "Chance" is a work of the finest shades and of the highest tension. It is the most finished of all his books. With "Chance" we come to the end of the novels written solely by Conrad. There still remain to be considered the two novels he wTote in conjunction with Ford Hueffer, but before examining them I will say something about his five volumes of stories. The first of these is "Tales of Unrest" (1898). There are five stories in this book — " Karain," "The Idiots," "An Outpost of Progress," "The Return," and "The Lagoon." The most remarkable is "The Return," which is well seconded by "An Outpost of Progress." The most beautiful is certainly "The Lagoon" (it is particularly inter- esting from the fact that it is the first short story Conrad ever wrote), while " Karain" is the sunniest, and "The Idiots" the most realistic. 112 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS "Youth" (1902) comes next in order. It is as famous amongst Conrad's volumes of stories as "Lord Jim" is amongst his novels — and more deservedly so. For it contains in "Youth" the most romantic, in "Heart of Darkness" the most terrible, and in "The End of the Tether" the most pathetic story Conrad has ever written. "Youth," itself, is certainly one of the very finest things in Conrad, a gorgeous dream, a vision of the rare and transient illusion of youth. "Typhoon" (1903) is Conrad's third volume of stories.* It is made up of four tales: "Typhoon," "Amy Foster," "Falk," "To-morrow." The first and longest of these is, as its name implies, the de- scription of a storm — a typhoon in the China Seas. "Typhoon," itself, is the most prodigious descrip- tion of a storm in the whole of literature. As a piece of word-painting it is unrivalled, and it is at the same time a notable study in psychology and contains some of Conrad's cleverest character draw- ing on a small scale. "Amy Foster," on the other hand, has the sober atmosphere of Conrad's later method. It is a delicate, faithful, and precise pic- ture. "Falk" has the fertile elaboration of Con- rad's most expansive work. It is a study in per- sonality and atmosphere that exhales the warm breath of a tropical Eastern river. "To-morrow" is a very poignant study, and one touched by the breath of symbolism. "A Set of Six" (1908) is the next collection of stories. The six tales of this book present a striking *Note: In the American edition "Typhoon" is published sepa- rately, while the volume entitled "Falk" contains the story of that name along with "Amy Foster" and "To-morrow." 113 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS change in Conrad's technique. Their atmosphere of romance tends to the inward contemplation of a mood rather than the piling up of substantial eflFect. They are, in many externals, very unlike his earlier work. Of the individual stories, "Caspar Ruiz" is hardly convincing — especially in its later phases; "The informer" is sardonically icy; "The Brute," "An Anarchist," and "11 Conde" are pathetic, exciting, and beautifully proportioned; "The Duel" is a work of wide imaginative impulse — a wonder- ful reconstruction of the Napoleonic atmosphere. .\s a sustained effort in Conrad's sardonic later style "The Duel" is unmatched. Conrad's most recent \olume of stories is "Twixt Land and Sea" (1912), and it contains three tales — ".\ Smile of Fortune," "The Secret Sharer," and " Freya of the Seven Islands." In subject and tech- nique these three stories are a return to Conrad's earlier work while they retain the fmish of his later period. The style is extremely distinguished and the psychology subtle without being at all overdone. The first of them, "A Smile of Fortune," is a very uncommon study in the bizarre backwaters of character. As for "The Secret Sharer," that is certainly a marvelous creation in atmosphere and in the pyschology of the hunted. The last and longest tale, "Freya of the Se\en Islands," is, per- haps, the most painful Conrad has ever written. There is something deeply melancholy in this drama set amidst the treacherous splendor of Eastern Seas. 1 will say a few words now about the two novels in the writing of which Conrad collaborated with Ford Fiueffer. The first of these is "The Inheritors " 114 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS (1901). It is a fantastic stor\- ahoul a new race of people, dwellers in a fourth dimension, who mix indistinguishably with ordinary mortals and grad- ually oust them from all positions of supreme power. The internal evidence of Conrad's collaboration is slight — visible, indeed, only in the negative quali- ties of proportion and restraint. ''Romance" (1903) stands on a very different footing. As far as 1 can judge Conrad must have had a great deal to do with the middle part of this book. It is a novel of adventure of ninety years since, starting with an exploit amongst smugglers on the Kentish coast, and then taking the young hero, John Kemp, to Jamaica and on to Cuba where he undergoes incredible hardships and dangers, and gains the love of a Spanish girl of startling beauty and fabulous wealth. There are plots and counter- plots on every page and murderous pirates, there are deaths, and there is revenge, and always there is danger and passionate love. It is a sheer novel of adventure, and the glory of it lies in its color and shifting lights. Since the above was written, the volume of short stories, "The Shadow Line," his great novel "Victory" and another book of short stories, "Within the Tides," have been published. In the spring of 1919 his latest novel, "The .Arrow of Gold," was issued. This book, in many respects quite different from his earlier work, has added greatly to the number of his admirers. "The Arrow of Gold" being a romance has enlarged his circle of readers, at the same time cementing the friendship of the tens of thousands that were already Con- rad lovers. 1 IS BOOTH TARKINGTON BOOTH TARKINGTON Extracts from the Book of That Title By Robert Cortes Holliday •N CONTEMPLATING the Idea of Mr. Tarkington one is struck at the outset by an arresting reflection. It is impossible to avoid the assumption that, whether or not he has "made good," the gods had something decidedly unusual in mind in the matter of his existence. If (as Mr. James declares) the first fact which goes a great way to explain the composition of Stevenson is that the boyhood of the author of "Kidnapped" was passed in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle, it is equally true that it would halt terribly at the start any account of the work of Mr. Tark- ington which should omit to insist promptly that he grew up in the neighborly and cozy big country town (as it was then) of Indianapolis. Even now, "the man across the street or next door,", "will share any good thing he has with you, whether it be a cure for rheumatism, a new book, or the garden hose." And, "it is a town where doing as one likes is not a mere possibility, but an inherent right." Much of the local color of Mr. Tarkington's boy- hood in the middle-western town which was his home is of course reflected in the boy stories of his middle life. The topography of his youthful orbit, one perceives, comprised as its most salient features "alleys," stables, yards, fences, "cisterns," and porches, with more or less perfunctory rounds to Sunday School, dancing class, and "Ward School," 117 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS He was a town boy; neither a city nor a country boy. The pleasant flavor of a thoroughly represent- ative American town, which he imbibed in his early formative years, permeates nearly all his work; and it is his very honest feeling for the charm of just such a place that, one cannot fail to note, gives a strength to much of his rosy sentiment — and, later, dri\ing force to his satire. What is to come we know not. But we know That what has been was good — good to show, — The author of "The Gentleman from Indiana" was a neophyte of rich promise. He has, after some wav- erings, more than amply fulfilled that early promise. He has learned his trade in all its departments. He has employed in practice as an artistic precept the moral one, to try all things and then to hold fast to that which is good. He has found his true, rare vocation, that of satirist, critic. He is in the prime of life, what is called "the \ery plenitude of his powers." He has entered upon a period of amazing productivity; is \ery much "on the job"; and ap- pears to be "functioning" perfectly. He has gath- ered himself together, and set his house in order. He has been chastened by life, and success. He holds in the hollow of his hand the magic of style. He knows men (women and boys), books, and cities. What sort of critical speculation may be hazarded as to what degree of excellence he may reasonably be expected yet to attain? By what he has done he has "let himself in for" a good deal to come. By what he has now written we may know that he has not yet begun to write. Another fact that enters into the composition of ii8 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Mr. Tarkinglon is that as an undergraduate he had a kind of genius for American college life and was, apparently, in e\erything and of everything that made for good fellowship. Such, it seems, were the qualities of his heart and mind made mani- fest there that he has become one of the bright legends of Princeton. A most conspicuous effect of the atmosphere of this life which Mr. 1 arkington, with amusing un- consciousness of it, has carried o\er into his work is the spirit of the Glee Club, an e\er-recurrent echo of the sound of singing. His lovers sing; and, of all lovers, all the world must love most a singing lover. Throughout his pages "serenaders nightly seek the garden with instrumental plunkings." Or, there is wafted to the ear of the rapt one with- out the music of a clear, soft voice within welling the "Angels' Serenade." His drunken men sing — and that is about the most winning thing adrunken man can do. His Sunday-school classes sing with rousing effect on the neighbors. His small boys sing and whistle with equal elo- quence. And, best of all, his colored people every- where sing as only colored people can. The effect of this atmosphere of singing in Mr. Tarkington's books is several fold. It has a part in the success with which the author carries across the pages of his romances the glamorous spirit of chivalry. It aids greatly in giving to many of his books the infectious air which they have of youth and the "good old summer time." Mr. Tarking- ton's portraits of humorous natures — darkies and boys — are rendered much more rounded and complete than they would otherwise be by his THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS presentation of their frequent vocal flights. And, too, in his realistic pictures, the happiness, which he interprets, dwelling in small places — places of shaded streets and quiet evenings — is in no incon- siderable degree conveyed by the sounds of music flung to the air. Tarkington went from his alma mater with (so the story goes) something of a general understand- ing round about him that he was to devote himself to literary work. Naturally, it is reported, there were many of his own class, and some of maturer years, who looked for almost immediate achie\e- ment. After college for a good many years Mr. Tarking- ton was and yet seven years to a day from his Com- mencement this man was "sitting on a fence rail in Indiana." Just so. Though, all in all, it was a decidedly figurative fence rail. Mr. Tarkington might have said with quite as much truth as Stevenson, "All through my boy- hood and youth I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler." Indeed, until in the neigh- borhood of his thirtieth year his career seems to have been regarded by his fellow-townsmen in the light of a rather attractive joke. He was "a big duck in the puddle" in all affairs of "society" in his home town, whose principal visible business, according to old rumor, was gallant courtesy to every visiting petticoat of quality. According to an old classmate, he was (then) "a romanticist in life as in literature." And yet, equally with R. L. S., this other "idler," too, was always busy on his own pri\'ate end, which was — not an ordinary thing to-day — "to learn to 120 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS write." I hose roving in the nocturnal depths past the Tarkington homestead at that period of the idler's business remarked what, if they had then thought of it that way, was the mark of a late student: the lamp at midnight hour, seen in the high, lonely tower which did oft' outwatch the well- known Bear, and so on. it was probably a con- sciousness of the foolish look which his unrewarded activities may have had outside that caused Mr. Tarkington at that time modestly to describe the serious schooling which he gave himself as "fussin' with literachoor." Much of what he wrote at that time, one gathers from him, was for no definite ulterior use; it was written consciously for practice, or perhaps done unconscious of that aim. Mr. Tarkington's style is a curiously fluid one, which changes its color with every turn; but in this, in clarity, conspicuous among our authors, popular and unpopular, he has seldom failed to bless his reader. "Elegant, facile, rapid," says a French Master, "there you have the perfect politeness of a writer." In sum, Mr. Tarkington's style, with all its complete modernity to-day, is such a style as comes of good breeding, of having early assimilated the atmos- phere of the best literary society, that is of first- rate writers. Neatness, precision, ease, modera- tion, lightness of touch, lucidity, these, in general, are its qualities. He i^ clever without being smart, and pointed without emphasis. As for that dread- ful something which goes by the name of rhetoric, you may search his volumes through without find- ing a trace of it. Brilliancy, surprise, felicities, 121 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS originalities — all these he "wears like a flower." "Writing like a streak" has never yet "come natural." Mr. Tarkington's testimony is that of all artists. "There are no teachers," he says, look- ing hard into his past. "We must work it out alone. We must learn by failure and by repeated efforts how the thing should be done." He wrote and re- wrote his experiments, which were "rejected every time"; and he has confessed that the gross return from his first five years of effort was exacth- $22.50. The spectator of Mr. Tarkington throughout his career is reminded of George Gray Barnard's sculpture, "Two natures contending within man." First one prevails, then the other. The two spirits that have made Mr. Tarkington a theatre of com- bat are realism and romanticism, and romanticism confused with a realistic setting is, of course, melo- drama. "The Gentleman from Indiana" began, and maintained itself fairly well half way through, as a serious and valuable transcript of manners: and then it became a burst of purple glamour not of this world. As late even as "The Flirt" Mr. Tarkington has at times manifested a curious in- ability to, so to say, keep his eye on the ball. Critics have had Mr. Tarkington fixed as a ro- manticist, and critics have had him fixed as a real- ist; but the gods pri\ily had it fixed that he was to be something more uncommon. The author of "In the Arena" would change manners; he would portray them, that men by seeing them would learn their evil or ridiculousness — in short, he deflnitelx revealed himself as a satirist — a chafer under exist- ing conditions — a critic. June, and wine, and roses, 122 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS and belletristic grace, and the he's-a-jolly-good- fellow-GIee-Club air have suddenly quite gone by the board in " In the Arena," and in their stead appears an apparition wonderful to see over Mr. Tarkington's way, a Carlylesque indignation and vehemence. Ihe Mr. Tarkington of "In the .\rena" is the Mr. Tarkington heading toward the .Mr. Tarkington of " Fhe Turmoil." There is a good deal of the same fiery energy, the same kind of rip-roaring earnestness, the same moral intensity in the sharp, smashing style, the same mordant wit. Mr. Brownell says of Lowell's wit that Lowell possessed too little malice to be distinctly penetrat- ing. And in this stinging quality, which entered into Mr. Tarkington's wit in his political sketches, he is distinguished to-day beyond any .American w Titer of fiction that 1 can think of. TARKINGTON AND HIS BOOKS In turning over the reviews of Mr. Tarkington's books, the notices contemporary with their pub- lication, one's interest is engaged by the number of limes the word " trifle" is applied as a term of desig- nation. The term is invariably employed by these reviewers in a sympathetic sense, and it may be embraced as a happy one for its purpose. Its repe- tition, too, is suggestive of a critical fancy. In .Mr. Tarkington's hands, the trifle — the short piece, light as air, and irradiant with color — becomes a distinct literary form (as the sonnet is a distinct form, or the essayj. Mr. Tarkington's /or/r for these delicate morsels of unexpected fla\or reminds one of noth- ing so much as Whistler's genius for debonair, 123 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS exquisite, and inimitable little drawings in colored chalks. They, too, were trifles, and they were per- fection. If the soul of Whistler were to come back among us as that of a writer, I think this author would write something very much in the form of "Monsieur Beaucaire," or of "Cherry," or (most likely of all) "The Beautiful Lady." It may also be remarked that the sum of the world's literature of perfect trifles is not very large. Any collection of such pieces — were one to be made, like the volumes of the World's Greatest Short Stories — would have to give a good place to "The Beautiful Lady." There is a suggestion of Steven- son, too, in the high polish of this curious style, in the niceties of the Neapolitan's language, which has something of a mincing step. There is humor of a very distinguished order — humor of a quality which is to be found in few books, and the glamorous Lady herself, the sense of a beautiful presence, is conveyed with something of the subtle touch of the author of "The Portrait of a Lady." A peculiar charm of Mr. Tarkington's fiction is the sweetness, fidelity, and goodness of his woman- kind, the moral fairness of his leading ladies. One cannot say that his treatment of the theme of the relations of the sexes ever rises to heights of sub- lime dignity, ever to the level of impassioned poetry. Some of the love in his romances could be called little more than Valentine sentiment yet his quaintly adoring, poetic ideal of women as guardians of what is good in men, as some eloquent reviewer has some- where observed, is an inspiration which gives his earlier books much of their tearful, smiling, tender radiance, their caroling hopefulness. The women 124 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS of his ideal are of the sort that give with both hands rather than receive. And the more "down" their lovers are the more Mr. Tarkington's heroines con- sider it a point of their womanhood to stand by them. There is, to be noted, too, another salient charac- teristic of Mr. Tarkington's heroines: there are no Emma McChesnies among them; they are all ladies, the product of a sheltered rearing. And, as with Mary Vetress, their going to be stenog- raphers would be unthinkable. But the new Tarkington, Doctor Tarkington the vivisectionist, certainly comes wholly into view in the author's extraordinary boy cycle, which began with Hedrick Madison. Mr. Tarkington's interpre- tation of the creature, boy, has a weird quality; and, one has an uncanny feeling, his studies in boy psy- chology call for some sort of a pathological explana- tion. In effect his analysis of the utterly mad work- ings of the boy's mind and the throbbing of his in- flamed nerves is as if a boy himself had suddenly become endowed with the faculty of thinking it out aloud. That is, the author's interpretation of the boy, moving about in what is to him the cataclysm of life, does not so much seem to be the work of a mind observing him from without, as it appears to be a voice from within explaining the matter, the voice of a boy uniquely gifted with the power of self- analysis. It is as if the author had a device in his head like the plumbing giving hot and cold water to a bath-tub and as if he could at will turn off the stream of mature thinking and turn on the boy thinking. And to recapture the sensations of twelve or of seventeen is exactly what the normal adult 125 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS mind cannot do. The author of Penrod and Will- iam Baxter certainly is not as other men; he com- mands some occult power. .And the joke of this mystery is that Mr. Tarkington says boy stories are the "easiest" things to write there are. He can "do any of them" in a day and a half. .And he thinks that "anybody could do it." My first impression of Booth Tarkington the man was vivid. I was sitting in the University Club at Indianapolis, reading the paper, when a \oice of hoarse timbre and of unusual \olume sound- ed out in the hall, and a young man with a good deal of something about him entered the room. 1 know not exactly what name to put upon this something, perhaps you would call it "class." A young man in that he may have been anywhere between thirty-five and forty-fne (or so). College chap kind of look. He was fashionably dressed and carried a handsome cane. Sexeral persons who had been drowsing burst into hearty welcome; and there came instantly into the atmosphere an electric feeling of something unusual going forward. Seated presently, he had very much the effect, with his slouched attitude and his smart apparel, of a por- trait, So-and-So, Esq., that you might see at, say, the Montross Gallery. But the picture — not the painted one, the real one — of Mr. Tarkington in his habit as he labors is startlingly unlike anything ever done of him in paint or print. He is collarless (the collar-button of his shirt unbuttoned), and garbed in an old and particularly evil-looking dressing-gown, which looks as if it might have been constructed of a horse-blanket which had seen active service, and 126 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS had not been reno\aled since. I his blanket accen- tuates the rounded stoop which he seems to take on in this chamber, a stoop so marked as to give him at moments a hunchback appearance. Re- moved from the handsome, and youthful, lines of his tailored clothes, with this prehistoric stoop, and in this quaint gunny-sack gown, he presents, now and then, altogether a humorously elderly effect. No, not elderly; old, very old; ancient — beyond the reckoning cf years. Especially is this so when he puts on (with a trembling hand) his shell spectacles to peer at something. And podders about the room in shuffling slippers, as he does in a kind of lean- slippered-and-pantaloon manner. All in all, the visitor who has the privileged honor to penetrate into the upper fastness is likely to receive an im- pression of the master of the house as a bi-arn- object. Your host has the general ert'ect of recall- ing to your mind some figure in a wild tale. An eccentric being, an old uncle, a miser, maybe, in a Stevenson yarn of romance. In poetic justice, a black cat should perch upon the shoulder cf this figure; this ancient should keep his teeth in a glass: he should, midst squeaking wheezes and rusty cackles, poke the fire with a broken bellows. To the imagination, in the setting here of his rich library, this picturesque gentleman might be the last thing in the world he is, a "man of books," a bibliophile. Though a bibliophile, a man who makes of book collecting an exact science, did one scrutinize these shelves, would be very much an- noyed; he would find the library as miscellaneous and democratic as the museum: the aesthete, Arthur Symons, shoulders the soldier of fortune, Richard 127 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Harding Davis. Close by one window is a sharply tilted drawing table on the face of which rest a number of sheets of manila legal cap, the top sheet inscribed in a huge hand, "Chap. V." And on a stand by the table is a startling array of dozens and dozens of long, newly-sharpened pencils. "Sharp- en 'em all the night before," explains Mr. Tark- ington. Stern pieparation for the coming death- grapple with that angel! In England it is a common thing for an author to be a game-warden, a constable, or a squire, or some such thing. Mr. Tarkington is not exactly any of these things in his own "shire," but he does fill the chair of a public-spirited citizen of his city. He serves on sundry committees and lends his name to the support of di\ers charities. A point more to our purpose here, however, is that in times of public crisis he becomes something of a publicist, and ma\' be seen now and then hurrying along the street on his way to the newspaper ofifke with an article in his hand to be presented for publication. This article usually is "set" in bold-faced type in a "box" on the front page next day, and makes very mediocre reading. Now and then Mr. Tarkington has taken little spins in the field of the essayist and journalist but all inspiration appears mysteriously to desert him entirely the moment he turns from purely creative writing. And the effect, in most cases, of his "arti- cles" mainly is to recall to the reader's mind the epigrammatic observation upon another writer that he "had no talent whatever — only genius." 128 SThW'ARI HOWARD WHITE STEWART EDWARD WHITE Bv FuGENH F. Saxton T WAS just a few days before he sailed from New York for his second African exploring expedition that I had a talk with Stewart Edward White during which he spoke of his boyhood, his early school days, his first efforts at writing, and many other things which so illumi- nated the man and made clear the vigorous growth of his art. Brought up in Michigan, which was at that time the greatest of lumber states, Stewart Edward White lived for eight or nine years in a small mill town, whence the family moved to Grand Rapids, then a city of some 30,000 souls. In these days of hasty education, hasty both in the sense of infantile beginning and subsequent cramming, it is pleasant to record that the young Stewart Fdward attended no school until he was sixteen years of age, and that when he did finally go, so far from being be- hind his fellows, he entered junior class in high school with boys of his own age and was graduated at eighteen, president of his class. He won and still holds the five-mile running record of the school. A few years later he was graduated from the Uni- versity of Michigan. You may be tempted to ask what became of the eight or ten years which most boys spend within the four walls of a school-room. These, indeed, were some of the most fruitful of his life. He was continually in the woods and 131 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS among the rivermen, both in his own town and in \arious lumber camps to which his father took him. The most impressionable years of his life were thrown open to the picturesque beauty, the quick action and quicker thought, the need of bodih' cleanness and alertness of mind for life in the lumber camp. No grown-up observation or study could have so made this life his \ ery own. From 1884 to 1888 (he was about twelve years old then) he spent in California, which, says Mr. White, "was a very new sort of place." These days were spent largely in the saddle, with many excursions into the back country, where he saw much of the wild life of the old ranchers. Fromi 1888 to '91 ornithology attracted him and every moment that he could spare he spent in the woods. The result was an intimate knowledge of bird life and six or seven hundred skins now pre- served in the Kent Scientific Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. But perhaps the most import- ant outcome of this period was the thirty or forty articles on birds for scientific publications. These were Stewart Edward White's first published writ- ings, and the pleasure of seeing them in print and the confidence their publication gave him had a very stimulating effect. One of these papers, "The Birds of Mackinac Island," the Ornitholo- gists' Union brought out in pamphlet form and it is to this that Mr. White smilingly refers as his "first book." While in college his summer vacations had been spent cruising the Great Lakes in a 28-foot cutter sloop and thus he traversed the greater part of the waters of these backwoods. Upon graduating, he 132 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS spent six months in a packing-house, acquiring much information and less wealth at the rate of six dollars a week. He then set out for the Black Hills in the height of a gold rush — and came back broke. This was not an unusual experience; but the charge did not lie entirely on the debit side of the account for it was on the experience gained in this venture that he drew for material in writing "The Claim Jumpers" and "The Westerners." Doubtless much that is superficially a loss in life is in reality a long-term in\estment , earning good interest. I'hen followed a winter of special work at Co- lumbia University under Brander Matthews and in some law courses that interested him. It was dur- ing this time that Mr. White wrote, as part of his class work, a story entitled "A Man and His Dog" which Professor Matthews urged him to try to sell. it was bought by Short Stories for $15 and was his first paid story. Others followed in Lipptncotfs and the Argonaut, "but 1 did not get rich at it," remarked Mr. White. Thirty-five dollars was high- water mark. With some notion of learning how to become a successful author, .Mr. W hite next secured a position with A. C. McClurg. book-sellers, of Chicago. .\ better knowledge of human nature and nine dollars a week were about the only net results, however, and after some little writing, which found its way into review columns and magazines. White set out for Hudson Bay. It was about this time that he completed the manuscript of "The Claim Jumpers," which was brought out by .Appleton and had a very favorable reception. "The Westerners," finished later, was bought by .\lunsey for serial publication •33 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS for $500. The author was paid in five-dollar bills and he says that when he had stuffed the money in his pockets he left abruptly for fear someone would change his mind and want all that money back. The publication of this story marked the turn in the tide. Stewart Edward White had arrived. To understand the creative work of any man it is essential to know with just what mind he comes to the facts of life. Once we have determined this we have got his philosophy, and his work becomes intelligible, not piecemeal, but as a whole. Perhaps the most important thing to say of Mr. White is that he is essentially a realist. No one has written so well or so understandingly of the West, its people and its life, as he, and the reason is not far to seek. "A man," he says somewhere, "sl^ds for what he is and does and not for what he pretends." Elsewhere, speaking of the West, he says: "It is optimistic and willing to take an experimental chance with new things. . . . The Westerner is individual. When he sets about the sohing of his problems, he is guided by the circumstances of the case and not by precedent." Again: "I've simply tried to present the West as it is, not in accordance with the artificial demands of dramatic plot, or lave interest, or artistic balance, or anything else that would interfere with a true picture." "The Blazed Trail" was written in a lumber camp in the depth of a Northern winter. The only hours Mr. White could spare for writing were in the early morning, so he would begin at 4 a. m. and write till 8 o'clock, then put on his snowshoes and go out for a day's lumbering. "Conjuror's House" was written in New ^'ork n4 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS after the author's return from the Hudson Bay country. The story had fine dramatic possibilities and the book was dramatized by George Broad- hurst, and Robert Edeson played the leading role during its first season. It was during the ruffed grouse season in Michi- gan that "The Silent Places" was written. .Mr. White was busily engaged in training a Llewellyn setter at the time, and gave what intervals this important occupation afforded to the writing of the book. He laughingly refers to this book as the best example of "literary atmosphere" that he knows and thereby hangs a story. His aunt began reading "Silent Places" one summer evening and after an hour or more was observed to get up, quite absorbed and book in hand, draw a shawl about her shoulders, and resume her reading. "The Forest" Mr. White regards as one of the most instructive books he has ever written — that is, for himself. It was the story of a canoe trip and was published serially in the Outlook. In the course of the narrati\e the author innocently mentioned that he had discovered a good, tight tent and would be glad to tell any one really inter- ested where it could be had. In the first year that the book was out he recei\ed i loo inquiries and they are still coming. The immediate success of "The Forest" led to the wTiting of "The Mountains" which followed in general outline the ad\entures of a five months' camping trip in the Sierras of California. "The Mystery" was written in collaboration with Samuel Hopkins Adams and was the result of an effort to account for the mystery of the Marie. '^5 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Celeste. Adams was \isiting W hite at the time and they wrote the story together. After it was completed they divided the spoils and White got two characters, Handy Solomon and Darrow. Adams agreed not to kill off Darrow in any future stories. W hite used Handy Solomon, at an earlier age. in "Arizona Nights" and Darrow in "The Sign at Six." '".Arizona Nights" is an attempt to portray the a\erage life in the cattle country; "Bobby Orde"' is the small boy stripped of sentimental twaddle; "The Rivermian," while not a sequel to "Ihe Blazed Trail," is supplementary to it; "The Rules of the Game" is of the mountain life of California, telling the beginnings of the Forest Service and pointing out the injustice of judging long-past affairs by modern and altered standards of criticism. The two recent \oIumes on .Africa, " In the Land of Footprints," and ".African Camp Fires," while at first glance so far remo\ed from the West he has always pictured, are yet quite in the spirit of his best work for the simple reason that he has written neither tra\el books nor big game books, but faith- ful accounts of a \ery wonderful country which he really understands and is able to interpret. In reply to a question as to what drew him to Africa, Mr. White said: "My answer to that is pretty general. 1 went because 1 wanted to. About once in so often the wheels get rusty and I have to get up and do something real or else blow up. Africa seemed to me a pretty real thing. Before 1 went 1 read at least twenty books about it and yet 1 got no mental image of what I was going to see. That fact accounts for these books. I n6 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS have tried to tell in plain words what an ordinary person would see there." Of "Gold" some very interesting things may be said. This is the beginning of the epic of Cali- fornia, which -Mr. White plans to tell in three stories. Each book is to stand by itself, the only unity being the presentation in successive volumes of the won- derful story of California. The three periods to be covered are: 184c) to the Civil War, or the building days; 1884 to 1890, or the days of Eastern immigra- tion; and the present time when, the material foundations established, California has at last an opportunity to turn its energies toward the recon- struction of its government. "Gold" is a picture of the madness of '49 when thousands rushed \\ est by way of Panama and the Horn in search of the treasure that was supposed to be lying ankle deep all over the coast. The story concerns the adventures of a little part}- of four who set out from New York to make their for- tunes and no one who reads it will forget the won- derful picture of Panama, swarming with adven- turers, or the scenes in San Francisco, a mushroom city buzzing like a bazaar and filled to overflowing with a gold-mad population drawn from every con- dition of society. The second book of the California series is "I'he Gray Dawn." In it is told the story of the develop- ment of California from a miners' camp to a state with a stable government. The '49er doffs his flannel shirt and puts on a collar and a top hat. Succeeding the California books are two that come naturally as a result of his expeditions to Africa. "The Leopard Woman" and "Simba" 137 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS are properly sketched together because they are both books about life in Africa showing the effort of white civilization on the natives and also the reverse. "The Leopard Woman" is a novel. "Simba" a book of short stories, both so full of the spirit of the dark continent that the reader imagines himself under the blazing sun of the African sky hearing the vibrating roar of the lions. 138 GENE STRATTON-PORTEK GENE STRATTON-PORTER A Little Story of the UJc ami li'ork and Ideals of "The Bird H'oman" HER CHILDHOOD AND EDUCAIION O A mother at forty-six and a father at fifty, each at intellectual top- I notch, every faculty having been stirred for years by the dire stress of Civil War, and. the period im- mediately following, the author was born. From childhood she recalls "thinking things which she felt should be sa\ed," and frequently tugging at her mother's skirls and begging her to "set down" what the child considered stories and poems. Most of these were some big fact in nature that thrilled her, usually expressed in Biblical terms; for the Bible was read twice a day before the family and helpers, and an a\erage of three services were attended on Sunday. "No other farm was e\er quite so lovely as the one on which 1 was born after this father and mother had spent twenty-five \'ears beautifying it," says the author. It was called "Hopewell" after the home of some of her father's F^ritish ancestors. So it happened that, led by impulse and aided by an escape from the training given her sisters, this youngest child of a numerous household spent her waking hours with the wild. She followed her father and the boys afield, and when tired out slept on their coats in fence corners, often awaking with shy creatures peering into her face. She wandered where she pleased, amusing herself 141 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS with birds, flowers, insects, and plays she invented. She made special pets of the birds, locating nest after nest, and immediately projecting herself into the daily life of the occupants. "No one," she says, "ever taught me more than that the birds were useful, a gift of God for our protection from insect pests on fruit and crops; and a gift of Grace in their beauty and music, things to be rigidly protected. "Near the time of my mother's passing we moved from Hopewell to the city of Wabash in order that she might have constant medical attention, and the younger children better opportunities for schooling. Here we had magazines and more books in which I was interested." Marriage, a home of her own, and a daughter, for a time filled the author's hands, but never her whole heart and brain. The book fever lay dor- mant awhile, and then it became again a compelling influence, it dominated the life she lived, the cabin she designed for their home, and the books she read. When her daughter was old enough to go to school, Mrs. Porter's time came. Speaking of this period, she says: "1 could not afford a maid, but I was very strong, vital to the marrow, and 1 knew how to manage life to make it meet my needs, thanks to even the small amount 1 had seen of my mother. 1 kept a cabin of fourteen rooms, and kept it im- maculate. I made most of my daughter's clothes, I kept a conservatory in which there bloomed from three to six hundred bulbs every winter, tended a house of canaries and linnets, and cooked and washed dishes, besides, three times a day." Thus had Mrs. Porter made time to study and to 142 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS write and editors began to accept what she sent them with little if any changes. She began by send- ing photographic and natural history hints to Recreation, and with the first installment was asked to take charge of the department and furnish mate- rial each month. The second year she accepted a place on the natural history staff of Outing, working closely with Mr. Caspar W hitney. .After a year of this helpful experience Mrs. Porter begun to turn her attention to what she calls "nature studies sugar coated with fiction." Mixing some child- hood fact with a large degree of grown-up fiction, she wrote a little story entitled "Laddie, the Prin- cess and the Pie." "Every fair day 1 spent afield," she says, "and my little black horse and load of cameras, ropes, and ladders became a familiar sight to the country folk of the Limberlost, in Rainbow Bottom, the Canoper, on the banks of the Wabash, in woods and thickets and beside the roads, but few people under- stood what 1 was trying to do, none of them what it would mean were I to succeed. Being so afraid of failure and the inevitable ridicule in a community where 1 was already severely criticised on account of my ideas of housekeeping, dress, and social customs, 1 purposely kept everything 1 did as quiet as possible. It had to be known that 1 was inter- ested in everything afield, and making pictures: also that I was writing field sketches for nature Dublications, but little was thought of it, save as one more peculiarity' in me. So when my little story was finished 1 went to our store and looked over the magazines. 1 chose one to which we did not subscribe, having an attractive cover, good '43 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS tvpe, and paper, and on the back of an old envelope, behind the counter, 1 scribbled: Perriton Maxwell, ii6 Nassau St., New York, and sent my story on its way. "That was early May; all summer I waited. 1 had heard that it required a long time for an editor to read and to pass on a matter sent to him* but my waiting did seem out of all reason. "Then one day in September I went into our store on an errand and the manager said to me: '1 read your story in the Metropolitan last night. It was great! Did you ever write any fiction before? ' " A second story and its pictures published in the Metropolitan also were much praised, and in the following year the author was asked for several stories, and even used bird pictures and natural history sketches, quite an innovation for a magazine at that time. With this encouragement she wrote and illustrated a short story of about ten thousand words, and sent it to the Century. Richard Wat- son Gilder advised Mrs. Porter to enlarge it to book size, which she did. This book is "The Cardinal" which was published with very beautiful halftones, and cardinal buckram cover. "The Cardinal" was published in June of 1903. On the 2oth of October, 1904, "Freckles" appeared. Mrs. Porter had been delving afield with all her heart and strength for several years, and in the course of her work had spent every alternate day for three months in the Limberlost swamp, making a series of studies of the nest of a black vulture. The nucleus of the book was the finding and photographing every day of a vulture's nest and 144 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS nestling, but the story itself originated from the fact that one day, while leaving the swamp, a big feather with a shaft more than twenty inches long came spinning and whirling earthward and fell in the author's path. Instantly she looked upward to locate the bird, which from the size and formation of the quill could ha\e been nothing but an eagle; her eyes, well trained and fairly keen though they were, could not see the bird, which must have been soaring above range. Familiar with the life of the vulture family, the author changed the bird from which the feather fell to that described in "Freck- les." Mrs. Porter had the old swamp at that time practically untouched, and all its traditions to work upon and stores of natural history material. " My years of nature work have not been without considerable insight into human nature as well," continued Mrs. Porter. "1 know its failings, its inborn tendencies, its weaknesses, its failures, its depth of crime; and the people who feel called upon to spend their time analyzing, digging into, and uncovering these sources of depravity have that privilege, more's the pity! If 1 had my way about it, this is a privilege no one could have in books intended for indiscriminate circulation. I stand squarely for book censorship, and 1 firmly believe that with a few more years of such books, as half a dozen 1 could mention, public opinion will demand this very thing. My life has been fortunate in ont- glad way: 1 ha\'e lived mostly in the country and worked in the woods. For every bad man and woman I have ever known, 1 have met, lived with, and am intimately acquainted with an overwhelm- ing number of thoroughly clean and decent people 145 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS who still belie\e in God and cherish high ideals, and // is upon the lives of these that I base n'hat I write. To contend that this does not produce a picture true to life is idiocy. It does. It produces a picture true to ideal life; to the best that good men and good women can do at level best. " I care very little for the magazine or newspaper critics who proclaim that there is no such thing as a moral man, and that my pictures of life are sen- timental and idealized. They are! .And I glory in them! They are straight, living pictures from the lives of men and women of morals, honor, and loving kindness. They form 'idealized pictures of life' because they are copies from life where it touches religion, chastity, lo\e, home, and hope of Heaven ultimately. None of these roads leads to publicity and the divorce court. They all end in the shelter and seclusion of a home." In .August of 1913 the author's novel, "Laddie," was published in New York, London, Sydney, and Toronto simultaneously. Of this book the author said: "Of truth, the home I describe in this book 1 knew to the last grain of wood in the doors, and 1 painted it with absolute accuracy; and many of the people I described 1 knew more intimately than 1 ever have known any others." Mrs. Porter has written ten books and each was written, she says, from her heart's best impulses. They are as clean and helpful as she knew how to make them, and as beautiful and interesting. She has never spared herself in the least degree, mind or body, when it came to giving her best, and she has never considered money in relation to what she was writing. 146 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS During I he hard work and exposure of those early years, during the rainy days and many nights in the darkroom, she went straight ahead with field work, sending around the globe for books and delving to secure material for such books as " Birds of the Bible," "Music of the Wild," and "Moths of the Limberlost." Every day was devoted to such work she could do, and with exceeding joy. She could do it better pictorially, on account of her lifelong knowledge of living things afield, than any other woman had as yet had the strength and nerve to do it. it was work in which she gloried, and she persisted. "Had I been working for money," comments the author, "not one of these books ever would have been written or an illustration made." When the public had disco\ered her and given generous approval to "A Girl of the Limberlost," when/' The Harvester" had established a new record, that would have been the time for the author to prove her commercialism by dropping nature work, and plunging headlong into books it would pay to write, and for which many publishers were offering alluring sums. Mrs. Porter's answer was the issu- ing of such books as "Music of the Wild" and "Moths of the Limberlost." "To my way of thinking and working the great- est service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be a gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier man, it is a wonder-working book, if it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself, and leads him one step toward the God >47 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS of the Universe, it is a beneficial book, for one step into the miracles of nature leads to that long walk, the glories of which so strengthen even a boy who thinks he is dying that he faces his struggle like a gladiator. "Based on this plan of work and life 1 have writ- ten ten books, and 'please God 1 live so long,' 1 shall write ten more. Possibly every one of them will be located in northern Indiana. Each one will be filled with all the field and woods legiti- mately falling to its location and peopled with the best men and women 1 have known." 148 SELMA LAtiERLOF SELMA LAGERLOF By Harry E. Maule • ^ ONORED by her own generation . f; " and in her own country no less than ^' •'i^'c;;w. -'^l throughout the whole civilized world, Sil?^"^;n Selma Lagerlof has fulfilled the -■ .rVfcy.^-^ happy portent of her name. "For Lagerlof, literally translated, means laurel leaf, and the absorbing life story of this quiet, calm-eyed lit- tle Swedish woman carries the reader from one crowning with laurel to the next. The only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, she shortly after that event was made a member of the exclusive Swedish Academy, and therefore is the only woman ever to sit as one of those eighteen Immortals. Born at a time when the cold star of realism was in the ascendant in Scandinavian literature, her soul filled with idealism, and steeped in the romance of ancient Northland sagas, she stands forth a brilliant exception to the materialism of her con- temporaries. In all her work Miss Lagerlof 's heart has turned with greatest understanding to that life in which she was born, the life of rural Sweden teeming with tradition, responsive always to the onslaughts and the miracles of Nature. Here she has found material, which, though local in its outward aspects, she has been able to clothe with that universal human significance 151 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS which may be found in nearly everything she writes. So here at Marbacka Manor, Sunne, in the prov- ince of Varmland, Sweden, into a large family of brothers and sisters on November 20, 1858, was born the little Selma Ottiliana Louisa Lagerlof. Springing from Swedish gentlefolk of the land- owner class (her father was a retired army otficer, and her mother was descended from a long line of distinguished clergymen) Miss Lagerlof from earliest childhood seemed destined for the part of an on- looker and an interpreter of life. She never was strong enough to run wild over the farm with the other children of the family, and so, sitting at home in a deep chimney corner with the old folks and her books, she let her childish imagination carry her off on excursions which were denied the physically more active youngsters. At twenty she went to Stockholm to take a com- petive examination for entrance to the Teachers' College. Her studies completed, she received an appointment to teach in the Grammar School for Girls at Landskrona, Province of Skane. There she hoped to find time for literary work, and much that she did then was later turned to good purpose, for here it was that she developed the central idea of her great classic "Gosta Berling's Saga." In 1890 it was sent in incomplete form to the Swedish magazine Idiiti and was awarded a prize. This attracted the attention of the Baroness Adiersparre who financed the young teacher while she completed the work. in spite of severe handicaps her very first work was crowned with distinguished success, foreshadow- 152 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS ing that fate which so truly fulfills the promise of her name. To place her in a word is of course impossible, yet one of her admirers has said that, gazing down a forest valley dotted with little red-roofed Swedish farmhouses and black-roofed churches she knows exactly what is transpiring within. Moreover, it might further be said that she knows just what is going on in the hearts of the inhabitants. Viewing her work as a whole it reveals a biblical simplicity of style, the trusting heart of a child, and at the same time the mystic insight of a seer. So deep is her message as J. B. Kerfoot said in Life that, " the wise cannot find bottom nor the child get beyond its depth." In her choice of material Dr. Lagerlof usually selects the common clay of mankind, but in the infinite fineness of her tooling we see the object in all its universality, so that every heart is touched, every mind is led to understand the inscrutable ways of life with her people. "Gosta Berling" was published in book form in Sweden in 1894. Idealism in a world of realism; a romance amidst the smother of gray Scandina- \ian pessimism, this saga of Gosta Berling, poet, philosopher, carefree vagabond of Loven's sunny shores, became the epic of Varmland, and her countrymen gave full honor to its writer. Soon the book was translated and published in all the other European countries. In 1899 it appeared in the United States in the translation of Pauline Bancroft Flach. Of Miss Lagerlof 's three great novels, "Gosta «53 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Berling," "Jerusalem," and "The Emperor of Portugallia," it must forexer remain a matter of individual taste as to which is the best. But whichever one of these may be chosen by the critic, one will always be tempted to place on a par with it her great juvenile classics "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" and "The Further Adven- tures of Nils." Consult the map of modern Sweden and in the province of Varmland one finds Lake Fryken, and upon its shores the village of Sunne. It is here in the old rectory, Marbacka Manor, that Miss Lagerlof grew to womanhood, and it is here that she now lives. This and the country round- about, is the setting for "Gosta Berling." Lake Fryken is Lake Loven, or, as she so frequently calls it "Long Lake," and Marbacka is Liljecrona's Lov- dalla of "Gosta Berling," "Liljecrona's Home" and of so many other of her stories. Miss Lagerlof's ne.xt work, a book of short stories entitled "Invisible Links," was published in 1894. Many of the stories are based on the old Swedish sagas, and in all of them we feel the very spirit of the North; the romance which broods over the desolate forests and peoples the wilderness with supernatural beings. At this time King Oscar of Sweden and his son Prince Eugen (widely known as a talented and successful landscape painter) extended financial aid to Miss Lagerlof who also was awarded at this time a small stipend by the Swedish Academy in acknowledgment of her achievements. The same year, in company with Sophie Elkan, the author, she made her first trip to Italy. The immediate 154 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS result of that trip was '" 1 he Miracles of Antichrist," published in Sweden in 1897, and in this country in Mrs. Flach's translation in the spring of 1899. "From a Swedish Homestead," Miss Lagerlof's next book, was published in 1899, ^^^ ^'^s brought out in this country in the Fnglish of Jessie Broch- ner in 1901. Miss Lagerl()f then made her first trip to the Orient from which came her second great classic, "Jerusalem." A few years before a company of peasants from Nas, a parish of the sturdy rural district of Dalecarlia had made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in order to join a colony formed by a Mrs. Edward Gordon of Chicago who had estab- lished a mission there made up for the most part of Swedish-Americans. Thus the historical background of "Jerusalem." Their aim was practical as well as spiritual, for the mission conducted a school, a hospital, and otherwise aided in much-needed public works. Not only were their early experiences in Jerusa- lem of the most harrowing nature through the rigours of the unaccustomed climate, the fevers which assailed them, :ind the scanty bounty of a desert land but also there came back to Sweden rumors of the most alarming sort of the conduct of the pilgrims in the HoyI Land. To ascertain the truth of these rumors, and to probe the cause of the saying then pre\alent in Sweden, that "Jerusalem kills," Miss Lagerlof made the journey to Palestine in 1899- 1900. Only too truly did she substantiate the grim northern acceptance of an inevitable fate in the Holy Land. "Jerusalem kills!" It was all too 155 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS true; for the unhappy Dalecarlians, removed from- their bracing northern climate, fell an easy pre\' to the hardships of the desert. Death had stalked among them, but with that determination which has won for the Dalecarlians the term of "the backbone of the Swedish nation" they held to their task. As to the charges, it was substantiated that the Swedish mission in its liberal policy to- ward Christian and Moslem alike had earned the enmity of the other missions there, making easy traffic for the stories which caused such heartache in the Dalecarlian homesteads. Perhaps one of the greatest tests of Miss Lager- lof's artistry was the task of weaving into a work of fiction this background of facts, which were at the time a matter of pressing national importance. On her return from the Holy Land, Miss Lagerlof wrote the first volume of "Jerusalem," and had the satisfaction of seeing it hailed as her masterpiece. The book was published in Sweden in 1901 but was not brought out in this country until 191 5 in the English of Velma Swanston Howard who has trans- lated all of Miss Lagerlof's later work and who is her authorized representative in this country. Just here a word in regard to Mrs. Howard's untiring work in the cause of Selma Lagerlof in .America may perhaps be in order. She is Swedish born but at an early age came to this country. She was reared in constant association with both Swedish and English scholars and is equally at home in both languages. .\s a young woman she returned to Sweden where she worked for some years as a journalist, somewhat astounding the 156 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS leisurely Scandinavians with her American methods of newspaper work. One of her first assignments — a "scoop" on her Swedish colleagues — was an interview with her literary idol, Selma Lagerlof. This meeting was the first of many that developed a warm friendship between author and translator. The second volume, called in Swedish "Jerusa- lem in the Holy Land," deals with the lives of the Halgumists in Palestine, but ends as the first volume began in the ancient farmhouse of the Ingmarssons. Phis was published in Sweden in 1902, the year following "Jerusalem in Dalecarlia." It was pub- lished in 1918 in America under the title "The Holy City; Jerusalem Vol II." .Miss Lagerlof 's "Christ Legends" was published in 1904 and was brought out in this country in .Mrs. Howard's translation in 1908. The Swedish school authorities at this time feeling the need of a school reader which would serve to keep alive the rich store of folk lore and historic tradition which is the background of Swedish life, and at the same time teach the won- ders of the country's geography, commissioned .Miss Lagerlof to write such a book. "The Won- derful Adventures of Nils" and "The Further Adventures of Nils" (1906 and 1907J were the result. Fhe year following, 1908, appeared "The Girl From the Marsh Croft." " Liljecrona's Home" appeared in 191 1. "The Emperor of Portugallia" appeared in Sweden in 1914, and in this country in .Mrs. How- ard's translation in 19 16. Here at Marbacka and at her winter home in '57 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS Falun, Dalarre, she spends her time, writing much less than of old now for the demands upon her time and energy are many and great. Both Marbacka and Falun are typical Swedish homes. The winter home at Falun is a picturesque old cottage which was built nearly 200 years ago, and unlike the pre- vailing austere architecture of the province it has a quaint beauty and charm that sets it apart from its neighbors. Within is an atmosphere of simple dignity, of warm hospitality, for Miss Lagerlof lives and works amidst surroundings in harmony with her person- ality. From beneath a crown of white hair her eyes look at and through one, kindly yet penetrating, and always ready to twinkle happily at the humor which she sees in life. .\t Marbacka Manor, the home of her youth, which she rebought after twenty years' absence, she continues to employ, to the cha- grin of its overseer, a corps of aged servitors whose youth went to the de\ elopment of the estate. Her sixty-one fruitful years find her with a generous income from her books and plays, and it is with her a joy to spend her time and her substance in the service of humanity and of her loved ones. i58 KATHLEEN NORRIS KATHLEEN NORRIS* The Story of the Career of a Woman \'ovelist of Rare Charm and Pozirr By Alice Faith Powf.i.l 'ATHLEEN NORRIS upsets all our accepted ideas of how a novelist is made. Probably it is the very "■^1 absence of those influences which '^^ usually lead a man or woman to choose writing as a vocation that makes her work so unique and individual among the authors of to- day. With the exception of five months spent in taking a literary course at the University of California, Mrs. Norris never had any schooling. Probably the most dramatic thing that ever hap- pened to Kathleen Norris has been her literary success. No thrilling ad\entures, no prairie life, or mountaineering, no experiences of travel, or residence in Paris or Berlin ha\e been hers. The adxentures with which she is familiar are those of the nursery and the kitchen. She learnt the stern facts of life that are taught in the school of adversity at probably the most impressionable years of her life. At nineteen .Mrs. Norris was ready to make her bow to San Francisco society. A winter residence in the city had been selected, and even party gowns ordered and the cotillions joined, when came the sad and sudden inter- ruption. The mother was stricken with pneu- *Note: Reprinted from The Book News Monthly. i6i THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS monia, and her death vsas followed in less than a month by that of the broken-hearted father. As if the loss of their parents was not a sufficient affliction, the older of the Thompson children now found themselves face to face with the actual prob- lem of existence. A series of financial misfortunes, culminating just after the father's death, left them practically destitute with the exception of the family home in Mill Valley, too large and too far from the city to be a negotiable asset. It was at this time that the idea of augmenting the family income by writing fiction first occurred to Mrs. Norris although it was not until 1904, when she was barely twenty-three, that her literary ambi- tion first bore fruit. In the fall of the previous year she attempted a year's course in the English de- partment of the University of California, only to be recalled when it was less than half completed, by the needs of her family. Her first successful effort was a story entitled "The Colonel and the Lady," which was accepted by the Argonaut, of San Francisco, and for which she received ^i 5.50. After an experience as a librarian, Mrs. Norris went into settlement work, and, after several months of hopeless efl'ort to reanimate an already defunct settlement house into renewed activity and in- fluence, she ga\e up the attempt and accepted a position as Society Editor of the Evening Bulletin. Withm a few months she was called to the repor- torial ranks of the San Francisco Call, a position she successfully filled for two years. In .'Xpril, 1909, she married Charles Oilman Norris, the younger brother of the author of "Mc- Teague" and "The Pit." They made their home 162 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS in New York City, where Mr. Norris was engaged in magazine editorial work. It is not strange that the first leisure she had known since her father's death, the literary environment, and the happiness of being in the city she had for many years longed to know, should have awakened in Mrs. Norris again her ambition to write. It was not encouraging work at first, however. .Manuscripts came back regularly and unfailingly for manv months. Then one happened to fall into the hands of Mr. Ellery Sedgwick, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The editor's letter of acceptance read as follows; DtAR Mrs. Norris: The readers report that, delightful as this story is it is " not quite in our tone." The feeling of the Atlantic is, that when a tale is as intimately true to life as this is of yours, the tone is surely a tone for the Atlantic to adopt. It gives us much pleasure to accept so admirable a story. \ery truly yours. The Lditor. Success came rapidly. As soon as "What Hap- pened to Alanna" appeared in the Atlantic, it at- tracted the attention of Mr. S. S. McClure, who wrote to its author, requesting her to send him the next work she had to offer. In her reply Mrs. Nor- ris was fortunately able to give the date on which the same story had been submitted to McChires Magazine, and when it had been returned. Then came the short story prize contest of the D^/m^afor, the indirect result of which was "Mother" —the book that made Kathleen Norris beloved in thousands of American homes. It was first written 16^ THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS as a short story, and intended for the Delineator con- test, but was too long to meet the conditions. Immediately upon its publication in the American Magazine five different publishing houses requested Mrs. Norris to enlarge the story to permit of its being published in book form. There ne\er will be a finer proof of Kathleen Norris's superb crafts- manship than the task she set herself to do in adding twenty thousand words to the ten thousand that already constituted the short story. How well she succeeded the twenty-fi\e editions of the book bear witness to. "The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne" duplicated the suc- cess of "Mother." A collection of Mrs. Nonis's best short stories, under the title of "Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby," appeared the following spring and was cordially welcomed. In November of the same year 'The Treasure" appeared serially in the Saturday Evening Post and in book form during the succeeding February. But it was perhaps "Saturday's Child," which fixed Mrs. Norris's position in the world of letters. The significance of the title comes from the old jingle, " Saturday' s child must work for her living." "Saturday's Child" was followed by "The Story of Julia Page" and that in turn by "Josselyn's Wife," both of which show a steady growth in grasp and power. Kathleen Norris believes in the fundamentals of life. One cannot read her stories without realizing this. She beliexes in simplicity, in kindness, in charity, in her home, in those she lo\es, in flowers, and birds, and, above all, in children. She is an optimist, both in her life and in what she writes. 164 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS She never has written a slor\' with an unhappy ending, and she declares she ne\er will. She is no sentimentalist; she is a realist — a realist with a passion for detail and truth. She li\es as she writes, and, whether through the printed page, or by word of mouth, or by her \ery presence, there flows from her that quality of goodness of which Lincoln spoke: "With charity for all and malice toward none!" Her life is built upon the principle of "love thy neighbor as thyself." )65 RUDYARD KIPLING MY FIRST BOOK By Rudyard Kipling Copyright in 1892 in the United States of America by Rudyard Kipling S FHERE is only one man in charge of a steamer, so there is but one man in charge of a newspaper, and he is ' the editor. My chief taught me this on an Indian journal, and he further explained that an order was an order, to be obeyed at a run, not a walk, and that any notion or notions as to the fitness or unfitness of any par- ticular kind of work for the young had better be held over till the last page was locked up to press. He was breaking me into harness, and I owe him a deep debt of gratitude, which 1 did not discharge at the time. The path of virtue was very steep, whereas the writing of verses allowed a certain play to the mind, and, unlike the filling in of reading matter, could be done as the spirit served. Now a sub-editor is not hired to write verses. He is paid to sub-edit. At the time, this discovery shocked me greatly; but, some years later, when 1 came to be an editor in charge. Providence dealt me for my subordinate one saturated with Elia. He wrote very pretty Lamblike essays, but he wrote them when he should have been sub-editing. Then 1 saw a little what my chief must have suffered on my account. There is a moral here for the ambitious and aspir- ing who are oppressed by their superiors. This is a digression, as all my verses were di- gressions from office work. They came without 167 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS invitation, unmanneredly, in the nature of things; but they had to come and the writing out of them kept me healthy and amused. To the best of my remembrance, no one then discovered their griev- ous cynicism, or their pessimistic tendency, and 1 was far too busy and too happy to take thought about these things. So they arri\ed merrily being born out of the life about me, and they were very bad indeed, and the joy of doing them was payment a thousand times their worth. Some, of course, came and ran away again: and the dear sorrow of going in search of these (out of office hours, and catching them) was almost better than writing them clear. Bad as they were, 1 burned twice as many as were pub- lished, and of the survivors at least two-thirds were cut down at the last moment. Nothing can be wholly beautiful that is not useful, and therefore my verses were made to ease off the per- petual strife between the manager extending his advertisements and my chief fighting for his read- ing matter. They were born to be sacrificed. Rukn-Din, the foreman of our side, approved of them immensely, for he was a Muslim of culture. He would say "Your poetry very good, sir; just coming proper length to-day. You giving more soon? One-third column just proper. Always can take on third page." Mahmoud, who set them up, had an unpleasant way of referring to a new lyric as " Ek aur chiz" — one more thing — which I never liked. The job side, too, were unsympathetic, because I used to raid into their type for private proofs with Old English and Gothic headlines. Even a Hindoo i68 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS does not like to find the serifs of his f's cut away to make long s's. .\nd in this manner, week by week, my verses came to be printed in the paper. 1 was in very good company, for there is always an undercurrent of song, a little bitter for the most part, running through the Indian papers. The bulk of it is much better than mine, being more graceful, and is don-. b\ those less than Sir Alfred Lyall — to whom 1 would apologize for mentioning his name in this gallery — "Pekin," "Latakia," "Cigarette," "O," " 1. \\ .," "Foresight," and others, whose names come up with the stars out of the Indian Ocean going eastward. Sometimes a man in Bangalore would be moved to song, and a man on the Bombay side would answer him, and a man in Bengal would echo back till at last we would all be crowing together like cocks before daybreak, when it is too dark to see your fellow. And, occasionally, some un- happy Chaaszee, away m the China ports, would lift up his voice among the tea-chests, and the queer-smelling yellow papers of the Far East brought us his sorrows. The newspaper files showed that, forty years ago, the men sang of just the same subjects as we did — of heat, loneliness, love, lack of promotion, po\ erty, sport, and war. Farther back still, at the end of the eighteenth century, Mickey's Bengal Ga^cU, a very wicked little sheet in Calcutta, published the songs of the young factors, ensigns, and writers to the East India Company. Ihey, too, wrote of the same things, but in those days men were strong enough to buy a bullock's heart for dinner i6y THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS cook it with their own hands because they could not afford a servant, and make a rhymed jest of all the squalor and po\erty. Li\es were not worth two monsoons' purchase, and perhaps the knowl- edge of this a little colored the rhymes when they sang: "In a very short time you're released from all cares — if the Padri's asleep, Mr. Oldham reads prayers!" The note of physical discomfort that runs through so much Anglo-Indian poetry had been struck then. You will find it most fully suggested in "The Long, Long Indian Day" — a comparatively modern affair; but there is a set of verses called "Scanty Ninety-Five," dated about Warren Hastings' time, which gives a lively idea of what our seniors in the service had to put up with. One of the most inter- esting poems I ever found was written at Meerut three or four days before the mutiny broke out there. The author complained that he could not get his clothes washed nicely that week, and was very facetious over his worries. My verses had the good fortune to last a little longer than some others which were more true to facts and certainly better workmanship. Men in the army, and the civil service, and the railway, wrote to me saying that the rhymes might be made into a book. Some of them had been sung to the banjoes round camp-fires, and some had run as far down coast as Rangoon and Moulmcin, and up to Mandalay. .A real book was out of the question, but I knew that Rukn-Din and the office plant were at my disposal at a price, if I did not 170 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS use the office time. Also, 1 had handled in the previous year a couple of small books, of which 1 was part owner, and had lost nothing. So there was built a sort of a book, a lean oblong docket, wire-stitched, to imitate a D. O. Government en- velope, printed on one side only, bound in brown paper, and secured with red tape. It was ad- dressed to all heads of departments and all gov- ernment officials, and among a pile of papers would have deceived a clerk of twenty years' service. Of these "books" we made some hundreds, and there was no necessity for advertising; my public being to my hand, 1 took reply-postcards, printed the news of the birth of the book on one side, the blank order-form on the other, and posted them up and down the empire from .Xden to Singapore, and from Quetta to Colombo. Fhere was no trade discount, no reckoning twelves as thirteens, no commission, and no credit of any kind what- ever. The money came back in poor but honest rupees and was transferred from the publisher, the left-hand pocket, direct to the author, the right-hand pocket. Every copy sold in a few weeks, and the ratio of expenses to profits, as 1 remember it, has since prevented my injuring mv health by sympatliizing with publishers who talk of their risks and advertisements. The down-country papers complained of the form ot the thing. The wire binding tore the pages, and the red tape tore the covers. This was not in- tentional, but heaven helps those who help them- selves. Consequently, there arose a demand for a new edition and this time 1 exchanged the pleasure of taking in money over the counter for that of 171 IHE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS seeing a real publisher's imprint on the title-page. More verses were taken out and put in, and some of that edition travelled as far as Hong-Kong on the map, and each edition grew a little fatter, and, at last, the book came to London with a gilt top and a stiff back, and was advertised in the pub- lishers' poetry department. But 1 loved it best when it was a little brown baby with a pink string round its stomach; a child's child, ignorant that it was afflicted with all the most modern ailments; and before people had learned, beyond doubt, how its author lay awake of nights in India, plotting and scheming to write something that should "take" with the English public. RL'DYARD KIPLING PROPHET Some Notes on "The Yfars Between" Re- vealing The Prophetic Quality of Mr. Kipling's View of World Movements Rudyard Kipling's position as the foremost living writer in the English-speaking world of to-day has been augmented by another view of his work; that of seer and prophet. For to his prevision of world events the whole ci\ilized world is now paying tri- bute. In a review of Kipling's war poems in the London Time^i the Oxford Unixersity correspondent of that paper said of him: "Happy the nation, the Empire, that in its fateful hours has a voice to 'nerve the heart,' to remind it what it has been, and what it is, to tell it to endure. The prophet, the poet, who can do this is an asset of price beyond rubies, is worth an 172 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS army corps. Such an asset the liritish Kmpire. nay, the English-speaking race, possesses to-day in Riidyard Kipling." All ihe poems included in the above little book appeal- in Mr. Kipling's latest volume of poetry "The Years Between" published in this country m April, 1919, and contain Mr. Kipling's mature expression of all that he has stood for during a score of years, it is the first collection of his poems published since "The Five Nations" in 1904 (since that time he has issued "Songs from Books" published in IQ12, which was a collection and expansion of material already written, and " .\ Diversity of Creatures" published in 19 17. which, of course, is prose). Therefore, because of their significance in world affairs, representing all that Mr. Kipling has to say of the war and present-day conditions "The Years Between" will perhaps be studied more carefully than any of this writer's books. For that reason the follow- ing annotations upon some of the poems in "The Years Between" will be of interest and value to students and casual readers alike. The material may be said to be authoritative and to state clearly Mr. Kipling's own ideas in regard to this book, which he considers his most important. THE YEARS BETWEEN "The Rowers." Originally published in the Times in 1902 at the time when Germany wished to embroil England with the United States under pretence, as usual, of friendship, by the suggestion 173 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS that England should jointly with Germany put pressure on Venezuela for the collection of debts due by the latter to both England and Germany. The verses excited an uproar in Germany and were very badly received in England; but are note- worthy for the first use of the word "Hun." This was based on the Kaiser's message to his troops when cooperating with the Allied Forces in China at the time of the Boxer Rising. He urged them to remember Attila and to make their name terrible among the Chinese. "The Veterans." Anticipation of the Day which came seven years later. "The Declaration of London." The refusal by the House of Lords to abrogate the Declaration of London which set out that the neutral flag did not cover neutral cargo, was, under Providence, one of the chief means whereby the British Navy was enabled to save the world. "The Covenant." Gives the situation as it stood immediately before the outbreak of the War. "France." Written on the occasion of the French President's visit to England the year before the war. A fairly complete prophecy in itself. "That undying sin we shared in Rouen market- place" is, of course, the burning of Joan of Arc. "For All We Have and Are." Generally ad- judged at the time it was written as "too serious for the needs of the case," but in 191 5 it was realized that it was the truth and was generally used for propaganda. "The Outlaws." Forecast in 1914 of the German moral collapse. "Their own hate slew their own soul before the Victory came." Illustrated by •74 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS the way in which the defeated Hun turned and rent his own land. "Ihey plotted by their neigh- bor's hearth. Ihe means to make him slave," gives the Hun's whole mental attitude in regard to commercial enterprise. "Zion." The difference between the spiritual attitudes of the Hun and his opponents. Really wicked people are never humorous and never dare to stand easy even for a moment. "The Choice." The italicized verses gi\e a new version of the Doxology — " Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost." "The Holy W ar. Note how thoroughly Bunyan understood the Hun and the Pacifist mind. Used as card reprint for propaganda. "The Houses." This was originally published in the Navy League Journal twenty-one years ago. Defines the relations of the Dominions to England and their attitude to her and to each other as proved in the War. On these principles, roughly speaking, the Federation of Free Peoples is based — No talk of "headship or lordship or service or fee," but merely friend comforting and counselling friend. Noteworthy as a prophecy that fulfilled itself within one generation. " Russia to the Pacifist." Written more than two years ago, but gives exact presentation of Russia's present condition which was due to the intellec- tuals and pacifists whose efforts directly produced the disease called Bolshevism. It is practically a dirge over a dead Nation. "The Irish Guards." This Regiment traces its descent with more or less accuracy from the Irish Brigades who fought for France against England •75 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS in Louis XlV's time; and at Fontenoy \ery nearly broke up the attacks of the Grenadier Guards. The recruits who fled out of Ireland to join these corps were generally known as the Wild Geese The great stand of the Irish Brigade at Fontenoy was made at Barry Wood, and Gouzeaucourt (191 7) was one of the many great battles during this War in which the Irish Guards took a leading part. "A Nativity." The Christmas Carol in italics is interrupted at e\'ery verse by the berea\ed mother. " En-Dor." A direct attack on the present mania of "Spiritualism" among such as have lost men during the war. It will doubtless provoke a great deal of discussion. ".■\ Recantation." A se\'erely classical rendering of an experience common to thousands of parents whose sons admired one or other of our English music hall artists who, it must be remembered, did more to keep up the spirits and cheer the minds of the boys at the Front and on lea\e than will ever be known (hence the decoration of some of them). It is the only direct tribute yet paid to this body of people who were at heart public ser- \ants who put aside their own grief and losses as Lyde did, and worked without rest to keep the boys amused and cheery. The incident of the music hall star going on with her work — "for the boys' sake" — on the very night she had recei\ed news of her own son's death is not fiction. "My Boy Jack." Sung at concerts, etc., all over England, and next to "For All We Have and .^re" the most popular of the war-verses for quotation. 176 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS "The X'erdicts." This applies, both in the United States and England, to ail the judgments of this generation on the men who are supposed to have done the most important work in the war. That is a queston which can only be settled by our children who will be far enough removed from the dust and heat of recrimination of the present strife to see clearly. "Mesopotamia." This deals with the hideous scandals of the early Mesopotamia e.xpedition as set out in the otifkial report on the same and exactly describes the attitude of all officials im- plicated — not one of whom has been punished or even permanently degraded for his share in the debacle. The fifth verse is the quotable one, as illustrating the methods of politicians in tight places. "The Sons of Martha." Published many years ago in a newspaper and for some reason quoted all over the world since. The poem is a study of the two temperaments that make up mankind — the people who at all costs will work and the peo- ple who trust that other people will work for them. It bears out the other poem, "Things and the Man," as showing that "Things never yet created things — . " It has nothing whate\er to do with "labor" as some people say, but with all humanity. The reader may discern .Marv's type indicated in the verses Mary's Son. "The Song of the Lathes." The employment on an immense scale and for a long time of female labor in the munition factories of Great Britain e\ olved, among other things, a type of grim, resolute, and enthusiastic women most of whom owed a debt '77 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS of blood to the Hun, who worked with a sustained energy that was almost terrifying. Mrs. Embsay may be taken as a fair type of that class who turned, gauged, filled, or fused the millions of shells that were monthly turned out. The quiet heroism and sangfroid of the women, all among the ex- plosives, when the air raids were in full swing above them, was beyond all praise. The last verse but one, Man's hate passes, etc., contains the hub of the whole proposition, and woman's attitude toward the Hun in the future. "Gethsemane." .American boys can bear out the truth of this poem, and of the horror that over- takes a man when he first ships his gas mask. What makes war most poignant is the presence of women with whom one can talk and make love only an hour or so behind the line. "Things and the Man." .Another much-quoted set of verses though it only appeared in a news- paper. The last verse but one has the moral, which may be very hotly contested by those who prefer to believe in things happening in obedience to the Time Spirit or whatever they call it. "A Death Bed." This balances the Dead King and is a fantasy of the Kaiser on his Death-bed explaining his views and principles (in quotation marks) to the doctor who (in italics) attends strictly to the pathological aspects of his patient's case. The rest of the verses are filled with a con- sideration of the different kinds of death which the dying man had caused others to suffer. "A Pilgrim's Way." Another much quoted-poem, especially the last line, "The people. Lord, Thy people, are good enough for me." 178 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS ■'The Song at Cockcrow." This poem is an expression of one view of the attitude of the Vatican in regard to Hun atrocities throughout the war. "The City of Brass." This was written more than seven years ago. It gives a careful outhne of the state to which Socialism reduces a Nation and has the curious Hne, which was humorously dis- cussed by the press at the time: "Out of the Sea came a sign, out of Heaven a terror." One of the English papers in 191 1 published a "comic" illustration of them in the shape of a sea full of submarines and a sky full of airplanes! 179 THE KIPLING INDEX Being a Guide to the Authorized American Trade Edition of Rudyard Kipling s JVorks Abaft the Funnel — Short Stories and Verse Contents: Erastasius of the Whanghoa Her Little Responsil)ility A Menagerie Aboard A Smoke of Manila The Red Lamp The Shadow of His Hand A Little More Beef The History of a Fall GriflBths the Safe Man It! A Fallen Idol New Brooms Tiglath Pileser The Likes o' Us His Brother's Keeper " Sleipner," Late " Thurinda " A Supplementary Chapter Chautauquaed The Bow Flume Cable-Car In Partibus {Verse) Letters on Leave The Adoration of the Mage A Death in the Camp A Really Good Time On Exhibition The Three Young Men My Great and Only "The Betrayal of Confidences" The New Dispensation — I The New Dispensation — II The Last of the Stories Actions and Reactions — Short Stories and Verse Conients: The Recall (Verse) Garm— a Hostage An Habitation Enforced The Power of the Dog ( Verse) The Mother Hive The Bees and the Flies (Verse) With the Night Mail The Four Angels ( Verse) A Deal in Cotton The New Knighthood (Verse) The Puzzler The Puzzler (Verse) Little Foxes Gallio's Song (Verse) The House Surgeon The Rabbi's Song (Verse) Adoration of the Mage. The- Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Aerial Board of Control See: Actions and Reactions, s. v. With the Night Mail Alphabet, How the Was Made — Short Story See: Just So Stories Ambush, In — Short Story See: Stalky & Co. American Notes See: From Sea to Sea Chapters xxir-xxxvii Summary Ch. XXII — American Politics Dis- cussed on Shipboard Ch. XXIII — San Francisco An American Hotel The Cable Car l8l The Language of America BretHarte The " Bunco-Steerer" The Bohemian Llub Ch. XXIV— The Chinese Quarter and a Murder The Drink Question Suffrage Political Machinerj- Ch. XXV — American Women Home-Life Spirit of the West The Negro and the Race Problem The A-nerican Eas^le Screams The Typewriter-Girl Ch. XXVI— In a Pullman Bret Harte's Country Railroading in the Far West Portland Salmon Fishing on the Columbia Ch. XXVII— A Salmon Factory A Fishing Trip on the Clackamas Tacoma Seattle Ch. XXVIII— Vancouver Ch. XXIX — Livingston Yellowstone Park and the Fourth of July Ch. XXX — The American Trooper Through the Geyser Country Ch. XXXI — The Grand Canon Ch. XXXII — The American Army Salt Lake City Mormonisra Denver Ch. XXXIV— Omaha and Under- takers Ch. XXXV— Chicago The Stock Yards Ch. XXXVI— The United States: A Forecast Musquash on the Monongahela American Youth and Social In- tercourse Ch. XXXVII— An Interview with Mark Twain American, An — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. American Song — Verse ' 'There came to the beach a poor e.xile of Erin" See: Life's Handicap, s. v. Namgay Doola Amir's Homily, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Among the Railavay Folk— Descripti\'e Narrative See: From Sea to Sea Anchor Song — Verse See: Many Inventions, s. v. Envoy. The same verse reprinted in Seven Seas, The, s. v. Anchor Song and in Collected Verse, q. v. And if Ye Doubt the Tale I Tell — Verse "The Palms" See: Many Inventions, s. v. A Matter of Fact And Some Are Sulky, While Some Will Plunge — Verse Toolungala Stockyard Chorus See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. V. Thrown Away And the Years Went On, as the Years ]\Iust Do — Verse Diana of Ephesus See: Plain Tales from the Hills s. V. Venus Anno Domini Angels, The Four — Verse See: Actions and Reactions "Angutivun Tina" — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second Ankus, The King's— Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second Answer, An — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Arithmetic on the Frontier — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Armadillos, The Beginning of THE — Short Story See: Just So Stories Army He.vdqu.vrters — -Verse See: Departmental Ditties Army of a Dream, The, Parts I AND II — Short Story See: Traffics and Discoveries 182 Arrest of Lieutenant Go- lightly, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills As Easy as A. li. C. — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A Eyes of — Short Asia, The Stories Contents: A Retired Gentleman The Fumes of the Heart The Private Account A Trooper of Horse "As the Bell Clinks" — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Astrologer's Song, An — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. At the End of the Passage — Short Story See: Life's Handicap At the Hole Where He Went In — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First, s. v. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi At the Pit's Mouth — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. At T\venty-T\vo — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Auchinleck's Ride — Verse "There was a strife 'twixt man and maid" See: Naulahka, The, Heading for Chapter I Auckland — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected \'erse, q. v. AURELI.AN IMcGOGGIN, ThE CON- VERSION OF — SHOi, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected \'erse, q. v. Cities .and Thrones and Powers— Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. V. A Centurion of the Thirtieth. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. "City of Br.\ss, The'' — ^Verse See: Years Between, The City of Dre.\dful Night, The — Descriptive Narrative See: Life's Handicap. The same narrative reprinted in From Sea to Sea, q. v. City of Sleep, The — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in the story "Brushwood Boy, The" in "Day's Work, The," q. v. City Wall, On the — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. C1VILIZ.A.T10N, On the Frontier OF — Article See: France at War "Clampherdown," The Ballad OF THE — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. "Cleared " — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Coal-Fields. The Giridih — Descrihiix'e Narrative See: From Sea to Sea Coastwise Lights, The— Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the P^nglish. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Code of IMorals, A — Verse Sec: Departmental Ditties, etc. Cold Irox — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Cold Iron — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Collected Verse Contents The Fires Dedication from ''Barrack-Room BaUads" (To Wolcott Balestier) To the True Romance Sestina of the Tramp-Royal The Miracles Song of the Wise Children Buddha at Kamakura The Sea-Wife The Broken Men The Song of the Banjo The Explorer The Sea and the Hills Anchor Song Rhyme of the Three Sealers McAndrew's Hymn Mulholland's Contract The 'Mary Gloster" The Ballad of "The Bolivar" The Ballad of the "Clampherdown" Cruisers The Destroyers White Horses The Derelict The Merchantmen The Song of Diego \"a!dez The Second \oyage The Liner She's a Lady The First Chantey The Last Chantey The Long Trail A Song of the English The Coastwise Lights The Song of the Dead The Deep-Sea Cables The Song of the Sons The Song of the Cities England's Answer To the City of Bombay Our Ladj' of the Snows An American The Young Queen The Flowers The Native-Born The Lost Legion Pharaoh and the Sergeant Kitchener's School Bridge-Guard in the Karroo South Africa The Burial The Settler Sussex Dirge of Dead Sisters The English Flag When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted "Cleared" The Ballad of East and West The Last Suttee General Joubert The Ballad of the King's Mercy The Ballad of the King's Jest With Scindia to Delhi The Dove of Dacca The Ballad of Boh Da Thone The Sacrifice of Er-Heb The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief The Feet of the Young Men The Truce of the Bear The Peace of Dives An Imperial Rescript Et Dona Ferentes Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm The Bell Buoy The Old Issue The Lesson The Islanders The Dykes The Wage-Slaves Rimmon The Reformers The Old Men The White Man's Burden Hymn Before Action Recessional The Three-Decker The Rhyme of the Three Captains The Conundrum of the Workshops Evarra and his Gods In the Neolithic Age The Story of Ung The Files The Legends of Evil Tomlinson The Explanation The Answer The Gift of the Sea The King The Last Rhyme of True Thomas The Palace Barrack Room Ballads I— Indian Service To Thomas Atkins Danny Deever Tommy " Fuzzy- Wuzzy" Soldier, Soldier Screw-Guns Cells 189 Gunga Din Oonts Loot "Snarleyow" The Widow at Windsor Belts The Young British Soldier Mandalay Troopin' The Widow's Party Ford o' Kabul River Gentlemen-Rankers Route Marchin' Shillin' a Day Barrack-Room Ballads II— General "Back to the Army Again" "Birds of Prey" March "Soldier an' Sailor too" Sappers That Day "The Men That Fought at Minden" Cholera Camp The Ladies Bill 'Awkins The Mother-Lodge "Follow me 'Ome" The Sergeant's Weddin' The Jacket The 'Eathen The Shut-Eye Sentry ''Marj% Pity Women!" "For to Admire" Service Songs — South-African War Chant-Pagan M.I. (Mounted Infantr>' of the Line) Columns The Parting of the Columns Two Kopjes The Instructor Boots The Married Man Lichtenberg Stellenbosh Half-Ballad of Waterval Piet " W'ilful -Missing" Ubique The Return Columns — Verse (Mobile Columns of the Later War) See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Comforters, The — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Comprehension of Private Copper, The — Short Story See: Traffics and Discoveries Conference of the Powers, A — Short Story See: Many Inventions Confessions — Verse "In the daytime, when she moved about me" See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. V. The Bronckhorst Di- vorce Case "Confidences, The Betrayal of" — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Consequences — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Conundrum of the Workshops, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Conversion of Aurelian Mc- GoGGiN, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Conversion of St. Wilfred, The — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Convert, The — Verse "Look, you have cast out love!" See: Plain Tales s. V. Lispeth from the Hills, Cotton, A Deal in — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions Courting of Dinah S]j.\dd, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. Covenant, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Common Task of a Great Peo- Crab That Played with the ple, The — Article Sea, The — Short Story See: France at War See: Just So Stories 190 Craftsman, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Cruisers — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Crystals of Iswara, The — Verse "Because I sought it far from men" See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XIV Cuckoo Song — Verse See: Songs from Books Cupid's Arrows — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills o Dacca, The Dove of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. Dana Da, The Sending of — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc . Dane Women, Harp Song of the — Verse See: Puck of Pock's Hill Danny Deever — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Darzee's Chaunt — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First Daughter of the Regiment, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Dawn Off the Forelani>— Verse See: Fringes of the Fleet, The. The same verse reprinted in Sea Warfare, q. v. Day's Work, The — Short Stories and Verse Contents The Bridge-Builders A Walking Delegate The Ship That I'ound Herself The Tomb of His Ancestors The Devil and the Deep Sea William the Conqueror. Parts I and II .007 The Maltese Cat "Bread upon the Waters" An Error in the Fourth Dimension My Sunday at Home The Brushwood Boy Over the Edge of the Purple Down {Verse) Dead King, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Dead Sisters, Dirge of — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. De.\d, The Song of the — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. .\ Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q v. Deal in Cotton, A — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions Death-bed, A — Verse See: Years Between, The Death ix the Camp, A — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Declaration of London, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Dedication — Verse "Before a midnight breaks in storm" See: Five Nations, The Dedication "If I were hanged on the highest hill" See: The Light That Failed Dedication, A — Verse See: Songs from Books. The same verse reprinted under the title "L'Envoi" in Soldiers Three 191 Dedication to the City of Bombay — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Deep-Sea Cables, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Delhi, With Scindia to — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Delilah — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Denver (Colorado) See: American Notes Ditties and Barrack-Room Departmental Ballads and Ballads Contents Prelude. "I have eaten your bread and salt" DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES General Summary Army Headquarters Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink Delilah A Legend of the Foreign Office The Story of Uriah The Post That Fitted A Code of Morals Public Waste What Happened The Man Who Could Write Pink Dominoes Municipal The Last Department OTHEP VERSES My Rival To the Unknown Goddess The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin Pagett, M. P. La Nuit Blanche The Lovers' Litany A Ballad of Burial The Overland Mail Divided Destinies The Masque of Plenty The Mare's Nest The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding- house Possibilities Arithmetic on the Frontier The Song of the Women The Betrothed A Ballade of Jakko Hill The Plea of the Simla Dancers 'As the Bell Clinks" Christmas in India The Grave of the Hundred Head An Old Song Certain Maxims of Hafiz The Moon of Other Days The Fall of Jock Gillespie What the People Said The Undertaker's Horse One Viceroy Resigns The Galley-slave A Tale of Two Cities In Spring Time GifFen's Debt Two Months. In June Two Months. In September L'Envoi Dedication to Wolcott Balestier The Ballad of East and West The Last Suttee The Ballad of the King's Mercy The Ballad of the King's Jest With Scindia to Delhi The Ballad of Boh Da Thone The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief The Rhyme of the Three Captains The Ballad of the "Clampherdown " The Ballad of the "Bolivar' The Lost Legion The Sacrifice of Er-Heb The Dove of Dacca The Explanation An Answer The Gift of the Sea Evarra and His Gods The Conundrum of the Workshops In the Neolithic Age The Legend of Evil. Parts I, II The English Flag ' Cleared "_ An Imperial Rescript Tomlinson BARRACK-ROOM BALr.ADS Danny Deever Tommy Fuzzy-Wuzzy Soldier, Soldier Screw-Guns Cells Gunga Din Oonts Loot 'Snarleyow" The Widow at Windsor Belts The Young British Soldier Mandalay Troopin' The Widow's Party Ford o' Kabul River Gentlemen-Rankers 192 Route-Marchin' Shillin' a Day L'Envoi Department, The Last — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Derelict, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Destinies, Divided — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Destroyers, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Devil and the Deep Sea, The — Short Story See: Day's Work, The Diana of Ephesus — Verse "And the years went on, as the years must do" See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. v. Venus Anno Domini Diego Valdez, The Song of — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Dinah Shadd, The Courting of — Short Story See: Life's Handicap. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. Dirge of Dead Sisters — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. V. Dirge of the Langurs — Verse "The night we felt the earth would move" See: Jungle Book, The Second, s. V. The Miracle of Purun Bhagat Discipline, The Bonds of — Short Story See: Traffics and Discoveries Dispensation, The New. Parts I and II — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Disturber of Traffic, The — Short Story See: Many Inventions Diversity of Creatures, A — Short Stories and Verse Contents As Easy as A. B. C. MacDonough's Song (Verse) Friendly Brook The Land (\'erse) In the Same Boat "Helen all Alone" (Verse) The Honours of War The Children (Verse) The Dog Hervey The Comforters (Verse) The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat The Press (Verse) In the Presence Jobson's Amen (Verse) Regulus A Translation (Verse) The Edge of the Evening Rebirth (V'erse) The Horse Marines The Legend of Mirth (Verse) "My Son's Wife" The Floods (Verse) The Fabulists (Verse) The \'orte.x The Song of Seven Cities (Verse) ■'Swept and Garnished" Mary Postgate The Beginnings (Verse) Dives, The Peace of — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Divided Destinies — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc Doctor of Medicine, A — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Dog Hervey, The — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A Dog, Red — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second Dog, The Power of the — Verse See: Actions and Reactions 193 DoiiiNOES, Penk — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. "DoxA Ferentes, Et" — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Dove of Dacca, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Dray Wara Yow Dee — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Dreadful Night, The City of — Descriptive Narrative See: From Sea to Sea. The same narrative reprinted in Life's Handicap, q. v. Dream of Duncan Parrenness, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Drums of the Fore and Aft, The — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. V. Drunk Draf', The Big — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Duncan Barrenness, The Dream of — Short Story See: Life's Handicap DuNGARA, The Judgment of — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Dykes, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. "Dymchurch Flit" — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill East and West, The Ballad of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected \ erse, q. v. 'Eathen, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse q. v. Eddi's Service — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Eden, The Garden of — Dia- logue (in the "Story of the G.^DSBYS") See: Soldiers Three, etc. Edge of the E\t:ning, The — • Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A Education of Otis Yeere, The. Parts I and II — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Egg-Shell, The — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in the story '"Their La^vful Occasions," in TraflScs and Discoveries Elephant, My Lord the — Short Story See: Many Inventions Elephant's Child, The — Short Story See: Just So Stories Elephants, Toomai of the — Short Stories See: Jungle Book, The First End of the Passage, At the — Short Story See: Life's Handicap En-Dor — Verse See: Years Between, The K)4 England's Answer — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the Fn'^lish. The same verse reprinted in Collected \erse, q. v. English, A Song of the — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. English Flag, The — Verse See: Departmental Pitties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Envoy — Verse "Heh! Walk her round! Heave, ah, heave her short again." See: Many Inventions. Reprinted in Seven Seas, The, and in Col- lected Verse. Epitaphs — Verse See: Years Between, The Erastasius of the Whanghoa — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Er-Heb, The Sacrifice of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Error in the Fourth Dimen- sion, An — Short Story See: Day's Work, The "Et Dona Ferentes" — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Evarra and His Gods — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col ■ lected Verse, q. v. Evil, The Legend of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Exhibition, On — Short Story See: Abaft the funnel Explanation, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Explorer The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Eyes of Asia, The — Short Stories Contents A Retired Gentleman The Fumes of the Heart The Private Account A Trooper of Horse Fabulists, The — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Fairies' Siege, The — Verse See: Songs From Books Fallen Idol, A — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Fall of Jock Gillespie, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. False Dawn — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Farewell and Adieu to You, Greenwich Ladies — Verse See: Fringes of the Fleet, The. The same verse reprinted in Sea Warfare, q. v. "Fathers of Old, Our" — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies Fatima — Dialogue (in the "Story of the G.adsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. Feet of the Young jSIen, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. 195 Female of the Species, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Fifth River, Song of the— Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill Filed for Reference, To Be— Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Files The — ^\^erse See: Five Nations. The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Finances of the Gods, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap "Finest Story in the World, The" — Short Story See: Many Inventions Fires, The — Verse See: Collected Verse (Dedication) Fire, Through the — Short Story See: Life's Handicap First Chantey, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The._ The same verse reiirinted in Collected Verse, q. v. First Letter, How the — — Was Written — Short Story See: Just So Stories Fisher's Boarding-Housk, The Ballad of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Five Nations, The — Verse Contents Dedication The Sea and the Hills The Bell Buoy Cruisers The Destroyers White Horses The Second \'oyage The Dykes The Sons of Piego Valdez The Broken Aicn The Feet of the Young Men The Truce of the Bear The Old Men The Explorer The Wage-Slaves The Burial General Joubert The Palace Susse.K Song of the Wise Children Buddha at Kainakura The White Mans Burden Pharaoh and the Sergeant Our Lady of the Snows "Et Dona Ferentes'' Kitchener's School The Young Queen Rimmon The Old Issue Bridge-Guard in the Karroo The Lesson The Files The Reformers Dirge of Dead Sisters The Islanders The Peace of Dives South Africa The Settler Chant-Pagan M. L (Mounted Infantry of the Line) Columns The Parting of the Columns Two Ko[)'es The Instructor Boots The Married Man Lichtensberg Stellenbosh Half-Ballad of Waterval Piet '"Wilful-Missing" » Ubique The Keturn Recessional Flag of Their Country, The — Short Story See: Stalky & Co. Fleet, The Fringes of the— Articles and Verse Contents The Auxiliaries I & II Submarines 1 & II Patrols I & II Flies, The Bees and the — Verse See: Actions and Reactions FloodSjThe — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A 1C)() Flood Time, In — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Flowers, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. "Follow Me 'Ome" — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. "For All We Have and Are" — Verse See: Years Between, The Ford o' Kabul River — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Fore and Aft, The Drums of THE — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Same story reprinted in Soldier Stories Foreign Office, A Legend of the — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Foreign Office, Wressley of THE — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills For Our White and Our Excel- lent Nights, for the Nights of Swift Running — Verse See: Jungle Book. The s. V. Red Dog Second, For to Admire — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. verse rejjrinted i \ erse, q. v. The same Collected Four Angels, The — Verse See: Actions and Reactions. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Fourth Dimension, An Error IN THE — Short Story See: Day's Work, The Foxes, Little — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions France — Verse See: France at War. The same verse rei)nnted in Years Between, The, q. v. France at War — Articles Contents Poem: France On the Frontier of Civilization The Nation's Spirit and a New In- heritance Battle Spectacle and a Review The Spirit of the People Life in Trenches on the Mountain Side The Common Task of a Great People Frankie's Trade — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Friendly Brook — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A Friend's Friend, A — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Fringes of the Fleet, The — Articles and Verse Contents The Auxiliaries I & II Submarines I & II Patrols I & II From Lyden's "Irenius" — Dia- logue See: Traffics and Discoveries From Sea to Se.a: Letters of Travel Special correspondence and occasional articles written for the "Civil and Military Gazette" c«id ''The Pio- neer" between 1887-g Part I: Letters of Marque. From Sea to Sea Part II: From Sea to Sea. The City of Dreadful Night. Among the Railway Folk. The Giridih Coal-Ficlds See also above; s. v. American Notes. •97 Fumes of the Heart, The — Short Story See: Eyes of Asia, The *' FuzzY-WuzzY " — Verse (Soudan Expeditionary Force) See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Q G.\DSBYS, The Story of the — Short Stories See: Soldiers Three, etc. Galley Slave, The — ^Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Gallio's Song — Verse See: Actions and Reactions. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Garden of Eden, The — Dia- logue (m THE "Story of the Gadsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. G ARM — A Hostage — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Gehazi — ^Verse See: Years Between, The Gemini — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. General Joubert — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. General Summary — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Gentlemen-Rankers — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Georgie Porgie — Short Story See: Life's Handicap German Flag, Reingelder and THE — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Germ-Destroyer, A — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Gethsemane — Verse See: Vears Between. The Ghost Story, My Own True — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Giffen's Debt — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Gift of the Sea, The — Verse See. Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Geridih Coal-Fields, The — Descriptive NARRATrvE See: From Sea to Sea Give the Man Who Is Not Made — Verse Op. 15 See: Kim, beginning of Chap. XI Gloriana — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Goddess, To the Unknown — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. God from the IMachine, The — Short Story See: Soldiers Three Golighty, The Arrest of Lieutenant — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Good Luck, She Is Never a Lady — Verse The Wishing Caps See: Kim, beginning of Chap. IV 198 Good Time, A Really — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Gow's Watch — Verse See: Songs From Books GR.\^■D-;^I aster's Defence, The — Verse Your patience Sirs: the Devil took me up See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter IV Grasshopper, Shiv and the — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First Grave of the Hundred Head, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Great Wall, On the — Short Story See: ?uck of Pook's Hill Greenhow Hill, On — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Griffiths the Safe Man — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Gunga Din — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. H Habitation Enforced, An — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions 1 1 ADR AMAUTI VeRSE See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in Plain Tales from the Hills, q. v. Hafiz, Certain Maxims of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. OF Waterval — Half-Ballad Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Halifax — Vi:rse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Hal o' the Draft — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill Harp Song of the Dane \\'oMEN — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Harte, Bret See: American Notes H.A.UNTED Subalterns — Short Story See: Plahi Tales from the Hills "Have You News of My Boy Jack?" — ^Vep^se See: Sea Warfare Head of the District, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap " Helen All Alone " — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Henry VII and The Ship- Wrights, King — ^Verse See: Rewards and Fairies Here Come I to My Own Again — Verse The Prodigal Son See: Kim, beginning of Chapter V Heriot's Ford — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse re^^rinted under the title "Fi-ht of Heriot's Ford, The" in 1 he Light That Failed Heritage, Thi: — Verse See: Songs From Books 199 HcR Little Responsibility — SnoPvT Stop.y See: Abaft the Funnel Her IMajtigty's Servants — Short StoPvY See: Jungle Look, The First Hill of Illusion, The — Dia- logue See: Under the Deodars, etc. Himalayan — Verse The sky is lead and our faces are red. See: Life's Ilcncicap, s. v. At the End of the Passage His Brother's Keeper — Short Story' See: Abaft the Funnel His Chance in Life — Short Story'' See: Plain Tales from the Hills His IMajesty ties King — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. His Private Honour — Short Story See: Many Inventions His Spots Apje tiie Joy of the Leopard: II:s IIor.NS Are the Buffalo's Pexde — ^Verse Maxims of Ealoo See: Junfile Eook, The First, s. v. Kaa's Ilunting History of a Fall, The — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel His Wedded V/ife — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Hobart — ^Veree See: Seven J^eas, The, s. v. A Song of the l^nf-Ksh. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Holy V/ar, Tn::— Versi: See: y^nr*! Between, The "Honect if.lEN, Poor" — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies Hong-Kong — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song cf the Fn.':-i:h. The same vorse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. PIoRSES, V/iiiTE — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. House of Suddhoo, In the — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Houses, The — Verse See: Years Between, The PIousE Surgeon, The — Short Story See: Actions and Ex.eactions Howli Tiiana, At — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. How Fear Caxie — Short Story See: Jungle Eook. The Second How tee Alphabet Was Made — Short Story See: Just So Stories How THE Camel Got His Hump — CiiORT Story See: Just So Stories How the First Letter W.as Written — Short Story'' See: Just So Stories How the Leopard Got Spots — Short Story See: Just So Stories His How the Rhinoceros Got His S::iN — Short Story See: Just So Stories How the Whale Got His Throat — Si:o:.t Story See: Just So Stories 200 Hundred Head, The Grave of THE — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Huxdred Sorrows, The Gate OF THE — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills HUNTING-SONG OF THE SeEONEE Pack — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First Hyenas, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Hymx Before Action — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. I I Am the JMost Wise Baviaan, Saying in Most Wise Tones — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. How the Leopard Got His Spots Idol, A Fallen — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel If Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. If I Were Hanged on the High- est Hill See: The Light That Failed Dedication I Have Eaten Your Bread AND Salt — Verse Prelude See: Departmental Ditties, etc. I Keep Six Honest Servin(;- ;Men — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. The Elephant's Child Illusion, The Hill of — -Dia- logue See: Under the Deodars, etc. 20 1 Imperial Rescrlpt, An — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected \erse, q. v. Impressionists, The — Short Story See: Stalky & Co. Imray, The Return of — Short Story See: Life's Handicap In Ambush — Short Story See: Stalky & Co. In Black and White See: Soldiers Three Incarnation of Krishna Mul- VANEY, The — SHbRT Story See: Life's Handicap. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. Indl\, Christmas in — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. In Error — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Infantry of the Line, IMounted — Verse See: Five Nations, The, s. v. M. I. The saTie verse reprinted in Collected Vers-', q. v. In Flood Timz — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. In Lowestoft A Boat Was L.\iD — Verse See: Fringes of the Fleet, The. The same verse reprinted in Sea Warfare, q. v. In Partibus — Verse See: Abaft the Funnel In' Seonee — Verse This I saw when the rites were done See: Xaulahka, Ihe. Heading for Chapter XII In Shadowland — Verse We meet in an evil land See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter IX In Spring Time — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Instructor, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The sa,me verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Interlude, An Short Story See: Stalky & Co. UNS.A.VORY — In the Daytime, When She Moved About Me — Verse Confessions See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. V. The Bronckhorst Divorce Case. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. In the House of Suddhoo — . Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills In the IMatter of a Priv.a.te— Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. In the Neolithic Age — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. In the Presence — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A In the Pride of His Youth — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills In the Rukh — Short Story See: Many Inventions In the Same Boat — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A In the State of Kot-Ki.m- harsen, Where the Wild Dacoits Abound — Verse Song from Libretto of Naulahka See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter VI IswARA, The Crystals of — Verse "Because I sought it far from men" See: Nauhahka, The. Heading for Chapter XIV 202 Islanders, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse q. v. "Irenius," from Lyden's — Di.\- LOGUE See: Traffics and Discoveries Irish Guards, The — Vp:rse See: Years Between, The It! — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel It Was Not in the Open Fight — Verse Beoni Bar See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. v. The Rout of the White Hussars. The same verse re- printed in Songs From Books, q.v. I've Never Sailed the Amazon — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. The Be- ginning of the Armadillos I Will Remember What I Was, I Am Sick of Rope and Chain — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First, s. v. Toomai of the Elephants Jacket, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Jakko Hill, A Ballade of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Jester, The — Verse See: Songs From Books Jkws in Shushan — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Jobson's Amen — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Jock Gillespie, The Fall of— Verse See: Depaxtmental Ditties, etc. Jordan, The Swelling of— Dialogue (in the "Story of The Gadsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. ''Joss," The Meaning of — Article See: Sea Warfare JoiBERT, General — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Joyous Venture, The Knights OF THE — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill JuBAL AND Tubal Cain — Verse See: Songs From Books Judgment of Dungara, The — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. judson and the empire — Short Story See: ]Many Inventions Juggler's Song, The — Verse See: Songs From Books June, In — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, Two Months etc., Jungle Book, The First — Short Stories and Verse Conlenls Mowgli's Brothers Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack ( Verse) Kaa's Hunting Road Song of the Bandar Log (Verse) Tiger! Tiger! Mowgli's Song (Verse) The White Seal Lukannon (Verse) At the Hole Whire He \\ent In (Verse) "Rikki-tikki-tavi " Darzee's Chaunt (Verse) Toomai of the Elephants Shiv and the Grasshopper (Verse) Her Majesty's Servants Parade Song of the Camp -Animals (Verse) Jungle Book, The Second — Short Stories and Verse Contents How Fear Came The Law of the Jungle (Verse) The Miracle of Purun IJhagat A Song of Kabir (I'erse) Letting in the Jungle Mowgli's Song Against People (Verse) The Undertakers A Ripple-song (Verse) The King's Ankus The Song of the Little Hunter (Verse) Quiquern "Angutivun Tina" (Verse) Red Dog Chil's Song (Verse) The Spring Running TheOutsong (Verse) Jungle, Letting in the — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second Jungle, The Law of the — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second Justice — Verse See: Years Between, The Justice, The Tree of — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Just So Song Book, The Being the songs from Just So Stories set to music by Edward German For Contents See: Just So Stories Just So Stories — For Chil- dren — Stories and Verse Contents How the Whale Got His Throat When the Cabin Port-holes Are Dark and Green (Verse) How the Camel Got His Hump The Camel's Hump Is an Ugly Lump (Verse) How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin This Uninhabited Island (Verse) How the Leopard Got His Spots I Am the Must Wise Baviaan Say- ing in Most Wise Tones (\'erse) The Elephant's Child I Keep Six Honest Serving Men (Verse) 203 The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo This Is the Mouth-filling Song (\'erse) The Beginning of the Armadillos Roll Down to Rio (,Ver^e) How the First Letter Was written There Runs a Road by Merrow Down (Verse) How the Alphabet Was Made Of All the Tribes of legumai (Verse) The Crab That Played with the Sea China-going P and O's {Verse) The Cat That Walked by Himself Pussy Can Sit by the Fire and Sing (Verse) The Butterfly That Stamped There Was Never a Queen Like Balkis (Verse) Jutland, Destroyers at — Ar- ticle See: Sea Warfare K Kaa's Hunting — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The First Kabir, a Song of — Verse See: Jungle Book , The Second Kabul Ri\t:r, Ford o' — X'erse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Kamakura, Buddha at — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Kangaroo, The Sing-Song of Old Man — Short Story See: Just So Stories Karroo, Bridge-Guard in thi; — ^Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Kaspar's Verse Song in "Varda"- See: Traffics and Discoveries. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books under the title "Butterflies," q. v. Kedar, The Tents of — Dia- logue (in the "Story of the Gadsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. Kidnapped — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Kim — Nov'EL Illustrated by John Lockvvood Kipling King Anthony — \'erse Now we are come to our Kingdom See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XVIII. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books under the title "The Kingdom," q. V. King Henry VH and thk Ship- wrights — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. King's Ankus, The — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second King's Jest, The Ballad of THE — \^ERSE See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. King's Mercy, The Ballad of THE — ^VeRSE See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. KiN(;'s Task, The — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Book.s, q. v. King, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. verse reprinted Verse, q. v. The same Collected Kipling, John Lockwood, C.I.E. Father of Rudyard Kipling. Executed the decorations for the Second Jungle Book and the illustrations for Kim. Died in England, January 29, 191 1. 204 Kipling, Rudyard, Biographi- cal Sketch of — By Charles Elliot Norton See: Plain Tales from the Hills. Rei^rinted in Kiplini? Stori-s and Poems Every Child Should Know Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know. Edited by INIary E. Burt and W. T. Chapin, Ph.D. Contents PART I Roll Down to Rio ( Verse) I Keep Six Honest Serving Men (Verse) A Chapter of Picture Pages from the story of "Mowgli's Brothers" A Selection from " Mowgli's Brothers " Mowgli Among the Monkeys (Selection from '"Kaa's Hunting") PART 2 The Elephant's Child The Overland Mail The Legend of Evil The Song that Toomai's Mother Sang to the Baby (Verse) How the Camel Got His Hump PART 3 The Cat That Walked by Himself Pussy and Binkie (Verse) The Beginning of the Armadillos The Ston,' of Ung (Verse) The Song of the Banjo (Verse) The Liner She's a Lady (Verse) The Ballad of the Clampherdown (Verse) Fifty North and Forty West (\'erse) P.\RT 4 True Royalty (Verse) How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin There Runs a Road by Merrow Down (Verse) Baa Baa Black Sheep (Verse) Wee Willie Winkie The Dove of Dacca (Verse) The Smoke upon Your Altar Dies (Verse) Recessional L'Envoi ("The Seven Seas") PART 5 The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo (Verse) Fuzzy-Wuzzy ( Verse) The English Flag (Verse) The King (Verse) To the Unknown Goddess (\'erse) The Galley Slave (Verse) The Ship That Found Herself PART 6 A Trip Across a Continent ("Captains Courageous") The Children of the Zodiac The Bridge- Builders The Miracles (Verse) Our Lady of the Snows (Verse) The White Man's Burden (Verse) The Song of the Women (Verse) Kitchener's School — Verse (A translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedan schoolmaster of Bengal Infantry.) See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. Knife and tile Naked Chalk. The — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Knighthood, The New — Verse See: Actions and Reactions Knights of the Joyous Ven- ture, The — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill Kopjes, Two — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. Krishna Mulvaney, The In- carnation OF — Short Story See: Life's Handicap. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. Ladies, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Lady of the Snows, Our — Verse See: Five Nations. The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Lament of the Border C.\ttle Thief, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. 20S Lamp, Slaves of the — Parts I AND II See: Stalky & Co. Lamp^ The Red — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Land, The — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Lang Men o' Larut, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Langurs, The Dirge of the — Verse "The night we felt the earth would move" See: Jungle Book, The Second, s. v. The Miracle of Purun Bhagat La Nuit Blanche — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Last Chantey, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The.^ The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Last Department, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Last of the Storles, The — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Last Rhyme of True Thomas, The — ^Verse See: Seven Seas, The._ The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Last Suttee, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. I>AST Term, The— Short Story See: Stalky & Co. Lavelle, The Life of Xavier — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions, s. v. With the Night Mail "La\vful Occasions, Their" — Parts I and II— Short Stories See: TraflScs and Discoveries Law of the Jungle, The — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second Law, The Treasure .and the — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill Law Whereby IMy Lady Moves, The — Verse See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chap. XXI. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books under the title "My Lady's Law," q. V. Learoyd's Story, Private — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Legend of Evil, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Legend of the Foreign Office, A — \'erse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. L' Envoi — Verse "There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield" See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse , s . v. The Long Trail L'Envoi — Verse "My new-cut ashlar takes the light" See: Life's Handicap L'Envoi — Verse "When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried" See: Seven Seas, The L'Envoi — Verse "What is the moral? Who rides may read" See: Soldiers Three, etc. 206 L'Envoi — Verse "And they were stronger hands than mine" See: Soldiers Three. The same verse reprinted under the title "Dedi- cation, A" in Songs From Books Leopard, How the — Got His Spots — Short Story See: Just So Stories Lesson, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Letters of ]SL\rque See: From Sea to Sea Letters on Leave To Lieutenant John Rudyard Kipling See: Abaft the Funnel McHail from Letting in the Jungle — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second Let Us Now Praise Famous Men — Verse See: Stalky & Co. Dedication. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Libretto of Naulahka, Songs From the See: Naulahka, The, at the beginning of Chapters V, VI, VIII, and XX. Lichtenberg — Verse (N. S. W. Contingent) See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Life in Trenches on the Moun- tain side — Article See: France at War Lie, The Track of a — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Lieutenant Golightly, The Arrest of — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Life's Handicap — Short Sto- ries Contents The Lang Men o' Larut Reingelder and the German Flag The Wandering Jew Through the Fire The Finances of the Gods The Amir's Homily Jews in Shushan The Limitations of Pambe Serang Little Tobrah Bubbling Well Road The City of Dreadful Night Georgie Porgie Naboth The Dream of Duncan Parrenness The Incarnation of Krishna Mul- vaney The Courting of Dinah Shadd On Greenhow Hill The Man Who Was The Head of the District Without Benefit of Clergy At the End of the Passage The Mutiny of the Mavericks The Mark of the Beast The Return of Imray American Song Nangay Doola Bertran and Bimi Moti Guj — Mutineer L'Envoi (Verse) Light That Failed, The — Novel As originally conceived by the author with the dedication poem: "Mother o' Mme" Likes o' Us, The — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Limitations of Pambe Serang, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap "Liner She's a Lady," The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Lispeth — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Litany, The Lovers' — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Litany, The Wet — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries 20- Little Blind Fish, Thou Art JVIarvellous Wise — \'erse The Charm of the Lisara See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. V. The Lisara of Pooree Little Foxes — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions Little Hunter, The Song of THE — \'erse See: Jungle Book, The Second Little ISIore Beef, A — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Little Prep, A — Short Story See: Stalky & Co. Little Tobrah — Short Story See: Life's Handicap London, The Declaration of — ■ Verse See: Years Between, The Long Trail, The — Verse See: Collected Verse. Originally printed in Departmental Ditties, etc., s. V. L'Envoi Looking-Glass, The — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Look, You Have Cast Out Love ! — Verse The Convert See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. v. Lispeth. The same verse re- printed in Songs From Books, q. v. Loot — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected \'erse, q. v. Lord Roberts — \'erse See: Years Between, The Lost Legion, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The Slime verse reprinted in Col- lected \ erse, q. v. Lost Legion, The — Short Story See: Many Inventions "Love o' Women " — Short Story See: Many Inventions Love Song of Har T)y.\l, The — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in the story '" Be- yond the Pale" in "Plain Tales From the Hills" Lovers' Litany, The — Verse S:e: Departmental Ditties, etc. LuKANNON — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First Lullaby, A St. Helena — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies LUNGTUNGPEN, ThE TaKING OF —Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. Lyden's "Irenius," From — Dia- logue See: Traffics and Discoveries M MacDonough's Song— Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Madness of Priv^ate Orthkris, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. Madras — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the Knglish. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Mail, The Overland — \'ers£ See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Main Guard, With the- Story -Short See: Soldiers Three, etc. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. 208 Maltese Cat, The — Short Story See: Day's Work The Mamma, Poor Dear — Dia- j-OGUE (in the ''Story of the Gadsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. M andalay — Verse ^ee: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. ^^AN Goes to Mam Cry the Challenge Through the Jungle ! See: Jungle Book. The Second, s. v- The Spring Running Manila, A Smoke of — Short Stories See: Abaft the Funnel AIan Who Could Write, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Man Who Was, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. Man Who Would P)E Kinc;, The Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. M.\ny Inventions — Short Stor- ies and Verse Conlenls To the True Romance {\'erse) The Disturber of '1 rafTic A Conference of the Powers My Lord the Klephant One View of the Question "The Finest Story in the World"' His Private Honour .^nd if Ye Doubt the ['ale 1 Tfll {Verse) A Matter of Fact The Lost Legion In the kukh The Only Son {Verse) '' Hrugglesmith" • Love o' Women" The Record of Hadalia Hcrodsfoot Judson and the I2mpire The Children of the Zodiac Knvoy Mare's Xest, The — Verse See: De; artm:;ntal Ditties, etc. M AKMNEs, The Horse — Short STt)KY See: Diversity of Creatures, A Marklake Vv' itches Short Story See: Rewards rnd Fairies ^r.VRK OF THE TJeAST, ThE — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Mark Twain See: American Notes M.\RRiED M.\N, The- Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. M.VRY Gloster, The— Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. "Mary, Pity Women" — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \ erse. q. v. Mary Postgate — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A M.\ry's Son — Verse See: Years Between, The >\Iasjid-al-.\qsa of Sayvii) Ah- med (W.A.HBI), From thi: — \'erse See: Traffics and Discoveries ^Tasque of Plenty, The — ^Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Matter of Fact, A— Short Story See: Many Inventions VI.v\ KRicKS, The Meeting of the — Short Story See: Life's H.mdicap 209 Maxims of Hafiz, Certain — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. ]\IcAkdrew's Hymn — Verse See: Seven Scts, The. The same verse re./rinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Melbourne — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse rCj-irinted in Collected V erse, q. v. Menagerie Aboard, A — ^Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Men's Side, Song of the — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies "Men TH.A.T Fought at ]\Iinden, The"— Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Men, The Minds of — Article See: Sea Warfare Merchantmen, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Mesopotamia — Verse See: Years Between, The Mill Dam, Below the — Short Story See: Trafl&cs and Discoveries M. I. (Mounted Inf.^ntry of the Line) — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. "Minden, The Men That Fought At" — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \erse, q. v. Minepit Shaw, The Ballad of — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies ISIlRACLE OF PURUN BhAGAT, The — Short Story See: Jungle Book. The Second Miracles, The— Verse •See; Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. Mirth, The Legend of — \'erse See: Diversity of Creatures A Miss Youghal's Sais — -Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills jSIithras, a Song to — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Montreal, Quebec and — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. IVIooN OF Other Days, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. IMoRAL Reformers, The — Short Story See: Stalky & Co. Morrowbie Jukes, The Strange Ride of — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Mother Hive, The — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions Mother-Lodge, The — Verse 5ee: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Mother O' Mine — Verse See: Light That Failed. The. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. 2 lO MoTi Guj — Mutineer — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Mounted Infantry of the Line — Verse See: Five Nations, The, s. v. M. I The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. MowGLi's Brothers — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The First MowGLi's Song — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second MowGLi's Song Against People — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second Mrs. Bathurst — Short Story See: Traffic and Discoveries Muhammad Din, The Story of — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Mulholland's Contract — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Municipal — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Musketeers, The Three — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Mutiny of the Mavericks, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap My Boy Back — Verse See: Years Between, The My Girl She Give Me the Go Onst — Verse See: Life's Handicap and Soldier Stories, s. v. The Courting of Dinah Sbadd My Great and Only- Story See: Abaft the Funnel -Short My Lady's Law — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in Naulahka, The, q. v. My Lord the Elephant — Short Story See: Many Inventions My New-Cut Ashlar takes the Light — Verse See: Life's Handicap, s. v. L'Envoi The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. My Own True Ghost Story — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. My Rival — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. "My Son's Wife" — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, K My Sunday at Home — Short Story See: Day's Work, The N N.\B0TH — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Naked Chalk, The Knife and THE — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Namgay Doola — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Nation's Spirit and a New In- heritance, The — Article See: France at War Native Born, The — \'erse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collertcd Verse, q. v. Nativity, A — Verse See: Years Between, The 21 I Natural Theology — Verse See: Years Between, The Naulahka, The: A Story of West and East Written in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier RHYMED CHAPTER HEADINGS Ch. I— There Was a Strife 'Twixt Man and Maid Ch. IJ — Beware the Man Who's Crossed in Love Ch. IV — Your Patience, Sirs, the Devil Took Ue Up Ch. V— Now It Is Not Good For The Christian's Health to Hustle The Aryan Brown Ch. VI — In the State of Kot-Kumhar- sen, Where the Wild Dacoits Abound Ch. \' 1 1— There Is Pleasure In the Wet, Wet Clay Ch. VIII — W hen a Lover Hies Abroad Ch. IX— We Meet in An Evil Land Ch. X — Ye Know the Hundred Danger Time When Gay with Paint and Flowers Ch. XII— This I Saw when the Rites Were Done Ch. XIII— Beat Off in Our Last Fight Were We? Ch. XIv'^Because I Sought It Far from Men Ch. X\ II — Strangers Drawn from the Ends of the Earth, Jewelled and Plumed Were We Ch. XVHI— Now We Are Come to Our Kingdom Ch. XIX— We Pe the Gods of the East Ch. XX— Our Little Maid That Hath No Breasts Ch. XXI— The Law Whereby My Lady Moves Necessitarian. The — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Neolithic Age, In the — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse rei>rinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Neutral, The — Verse See: Sea Warfare Np:\v Dispensation', The I, II — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel -Parts New Knighthood, The — Verse See: Actions and Reactions. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Night Hunt, The — Article See: Sea Warfare Night JNIail, With Short Story See: Actions and Reactions THE — Night Song in the Jungle — Verse "Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night" See: Jungle Book, The First, s. v. Mowgli's Brothers Norton, Ch.a.rles Eliot Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling See: Plain Talcs from the Hills. Re- printed in Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know Not IX the Thick of the Fight — Verse See: Sea Warfare Now It Is Not Good for THE Christian's Health to Hustle the Aryan Brown — Verse Solo from Libretto of Naulahka See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter V. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Now Rann, the Kite, Brings Home the Night — X'erses See: Jungle Book, The First, s. v. Mowgli's Brothers Now We Are Come to Our Kingdom — Verse King Anthony See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XVIII NUIT BL.A.NCHE, L\ — VeRSE See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Nursing Sister, The — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in Naulahka, The under the title "Queen's Song From Libretto of Nau- lahka," q. V. 212 o Of all the Tribe of Tkgitmai — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. How the Alphabet \V as Made Of Those Called — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Oh! Hush Thee, IMy Baby, the Night Is Behind Us — Verse Seal Lullaby See: Jungle Book, The First, s. v. The White beal Oldest Song, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Old Guard, Song of the — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries Old Issue, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v Old ]\Ien, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The._ The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Old ]\Ien at Pevensey — Short Story See: Puck of Book's Hill Old jMothkpv Laidinwool^ Verse See: Songs From Books Old Song, An — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Omaha (Nebraska) See: American Notes Omar K.a.l'vin, The Rlpaiyat OF — ^V'erse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. One ^Ioment Past Our Bodif.s Cast — Verse See: Jun^'e r-)o'c. The Fecond, s. v. Letting ia t.ie Ju.io'.e One Viceroy Resigns — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. One View of the Question — Short Story See: Many Inventions Only .a. Subaltern — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Only Son, The — Verse The Only Son lay do-.vn again and dreamed that he dreamed a dream See: Many Inventions, s. v. In The Rukh. The same verse re- printed in Songs From Books, q. V. On the City Wall — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. On the Great Wall- Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill -Short On the Strength of a Likeness — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills .007 — Short Story See: Day's Work, The OoNTs ! — Verse (Northern India Transport Train) See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Op. .•? — Verse There is pleasure in the wet, wet clay See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter \TI Op. 15 — Verse "Give the man who is not made" See: Kim, beginniiig ol Chapter X [ Ortheris, The ^Madness of Private — Short Stop.y See: Plain Tales from the Hills. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. Other Man, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills 213 Otis Yeere, The Education of - — Parts I and II — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. "Our Fathers Also" — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. "Our Fathers of Old" — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Our Lady of the Snows — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Our Little Maid that Hath No Breasts — Verse Queen's Song from Libretto of Nau" lahka See: Naulahka. The. Heading for Chapter XX Outlaws, The — Verse See: Years Between, The OuTSONG, The — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second Overland Mail, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Over the Edge of the Purple Down — ^Verse See: Day's Work, The, s. v. The Brushwood Boy Pagett, M. p. — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Palace, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \erse, q. v. Pale, Beyond the — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Palms, The — Verse And if ye doubt the tale I tell See: Many Inventions, s. v. A Matter of Fact Pambe Serang, The Limitations OF — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Parade-Song of the Camp Animals — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First Partibus, In — Verse See: Abaft the Fuimel Parting of the Columns, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Party, The Widow's — \'erse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Patrols, I and II — Article See: Fringes of the Fleet, The. The same story reprinted in Sea Warfare, q. v. Peace of Dives, The — \'erse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. People Great, The Common Task of a — Article See: France at War People, The Spirit of — Article See: France at War Pevensey, Old ]Men at — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill Phantom 'Rickshaw, The — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Pharaoh and the Sergeant — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected verse, q. v. 214 Philadelphia — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies PicT Song, A — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. PiET — Verse (Regular of the Line) See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Pig — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Pilgrim's Way, A — Verse See: Years Between, The Pink Dominoes — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Pit's Mouth, At the — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Pit Th.at They Digged, The — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Plain Tales from the Hills — Short Stories (Twenty-eight of these appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette) Contents Biographical Sketch, by Charles Eliot Norton, of Rudyard Kipling Lispeth Three and — an Extra And Some Are Sulky, and Some Will Plunge (Verse) Thrown Away Miss Youghal's Sais 'Yoked with an Unbeliever" False Dawn The Rescue of Pluffles Cupid's Arrows Haunted Subalterns The Three Musketeers His Chance in Life Watches of the Night The Other Man Consequences The Conversion of Aurelian Mc- Goggin The Taking of Lungtungpen Bitters Neat A Germ-Destroyer Kidnapped The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly In tlie House of buddhoo His Wedded Wi.'e The Broken-link Handicap Beyond the Pale In Error A Bank Fraud Tod's Amcnd.nient The DauLchtcr of the Regiment In the Pride of His Youth Pig It Was Not In the Open Fight (Verse) The Rout of the While Hussars The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case And the Years Went on as the Years Must Do (Verse) _ Venus Anno Domini Little Blind Fi^h, Thou Art Marvel- lous Wise (Verse) The Bisara of Pooree A Friend's Friend The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows The Madness of Private Ortheris The Story of Muhammad Din On the Strength of a Likeness Wressley of the Foreign Office By Word of Mouth To Be Filed for Reference Plea of the Simla Dancers, The — ^Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Plenty, The Masque of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Pluffles, The Rescue of — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Poor Dear Mamma — Dia- logue (in the "Story of the Gadsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. Pooree, The Bis.vra of — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills "Poor Honest ISIen" — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Portland (Oregon) See: American Notes Poseidon's Law — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Possibilities — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Post That Fitted, Ti:e — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Power of the Dog, The — Verse See: Actions and Reactions. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Powers, A Conference of the — -Short Story See: Many Inventions Prairie, The — ^Verse See: Songs From Books Prayer of ]Miriam Cohen, The — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in the story " Dis- turber of Trafac, The," in Many Inventions, q. v. Prelude — Verse "I have eaten your bread and salt" See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Press, The — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Pride of His Youth, In the — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills "Priest in Spite of Himself, A ' ' — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Private Account, The — Short Story See: Eyes of Asia, The Private Copper, The Compre- hension 07 — Short Story See: Traffics and Discoveries Private Honour, His — Short Story See: Many Inventions Private Learoyd's Story — Short Story See: Soldiers Three , etc. Private Ortheris, The Mad- ness OF — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories Pro-Consuls, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Prodigal Son, The — ^\''erse "Here come I to my own again" See: Kim, beginning of Chapter V. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books Prophets at Home — Verse See: Songs From. Books. The same verse reprinted in Puck of Pook's Hill, q. v. Prophets Have Honour All over the Earth — ^\"erse See: Puck of Pook's Hill, s. v. Hal o' the Draft Public Waste — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Puck of Poor's Hill — Short Stories and \'erse Contents Puck's Song {Verse) Wcland's Sword A Tree Song {Verse) Young Men at the ^lanor Sir Richard's Song {Verse) Harp Song of the Dane Vv'omen {Verse) The Knights of the Joj'ous A'enture Thorkild's Song {Verse) Old Men at Pevensey The Runes on Weland's Sword {Verse) A Centurion of the Thirtieth A British-Roman Song {Verse) On the Great Wall A Song to Mithras {Verse) The W inged Hats A Pict Song {Verse) Hal o' the Draft A Smuggler's Song {Verse) The Bee Boy's Song {Verse) "Dymchurch Flit" A Three-Part Song {Verse) Song of the Fiftli River {Verse^' The Treasure and the Law The Children's Song {Verse) Puck's Song — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. 2l6 PURUN B HAG AT, TlIE MlRACLF. OF — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second Pussy Can Sit by the Fire and Sing — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. The Cat That Walked by Himself Puzzler, The — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions Puzzler, The — Verse See: Actions and Reactions. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Quebec and Montreal — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Queen's Men. The — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in Rewards and Fairies under the title '"Two Cousins, The," q. v. (Queen's Song from Libretto OF Naulahka — Verse Our little maid that hath no breasts See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XX. The same verse reprinted under the title "Nurs- ing Sister, The," in Songs From Books, q. V. (^)uestion, The — \'ekse See: Years Between, The Quiquern— Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second R Rabbi's Song. The — Verse See: Actions and Reactions. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Railway Folk, Among the — See: From Sea to Sea Rangoon — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Collected \ erse, q. v. Ravages and Repairs — Article See: Sea Warfare Rebirth — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, .\ Recall, The — Verse See: Actions and Reactions. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Recantation, A — Verse See: Years Between, The Recessional — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Record of B.a.dalia Herods- FOOT, The — Short Story See: Many Inventions Red Dog — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second Red Lamp, The — ^Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Red War-Boat, Song of th£^ \^ERSE See: Rewards and Fairies Reference, to Be Filed for— Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Reformers, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse rejjrinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Reformers, The Moral- Silort Story See: Stalky & Co. Regulus — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, .\ Reingelder and the (German Flag — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Rescript, An Imperial — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. 217 Rescue of Pluffles, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Retired Gentleman, A — Short Story See: Eyes of Asia, The Return of Imray, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Return of the Children, The — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Return, The — Verse (All Anns) See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Rewards and Fairies — Short Stories and Verse Contents A Charm {Verse) Introduction Cold Iron Cold Iron {Verse) The Two Cousins {Verse) Gloriana The Looking-Glass {Verse) A Truthful Song — Parts I and II ( Verse) The Wrong Thing King Henry VII and the Shipwrights {Verse) The Way Through the Woods {Verse) Marklake Witches Brookland Road {Verse) The Run of the Downs {Verse) The Knife and the Naked Chalk Song of the Men's Side {Verse) Philadelphia {Verse) Brother Square-toes II— {Verse) A St. Helena Lullaby {Verse) "A Priest in Spite of Himself" "Poor Honest Men" {Verse) Eddi's Service {Verse) The Conversion of St. Wilfred Song of the Red War-Boat {Verse) An Astrologer's Song {Verse) A Doctor of Medicine "Our Fathers of Old" {Verse) The Thousandth Man {Verse) Simple Simon Frankie's Trade (^Verse) The Ballad of Minepit Shaw {Verse) The Tree of Justice A Carol {Verse) Rhinoceros, How the- His Skin — Short Story See: Just So Stories -Got Rhyme of the Three Captains, The — Verse (This ballad appears to refer to one of the e.xploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American Pirate. It is founded on fact.) See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected \ erse, q. v. Rhyme of the Three Sealers, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Rhyme of True Thomas, The Last — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. ''Rikki-tikki-tavi" — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The First "Rimini"— Verse See: Songs From Books Rimmon — -Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Ripple Song, A — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second Rival, My — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Road-Song of the Bandar- LoG — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First Roll Down to Rio — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. Beginning of the Armadillos Romance, To the True — ^Verse See: ^lany Inventions. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse and The Seven Seas, q. v. Romulus and Remus — Verse See: Songs From Books 2l8 Roses Red and Roses White — Verse Blue Roses .SVf; The Lifjht That Failed. Head- ing for Chapter Vll Route-Marchin' — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected \'erse, q. v. Rout of the White Hi ssars, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Rowers, The — Verse See: Years Between, The RuKH, Ix THE — Short Story Sec: Many Inventions Runes on Weland's Sword, The — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill Runners, The — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries Running of Shindand, The — Verse There's a convict more in the Central Jail .SVf.- Life's Handicap, s. v. The Head of the District Run of the Downs, The — \'erse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Rup.myat of Omar Kau'vin, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Russia to the Pacifists — Verse See: Years Between, The St. Helena Lullaby, .\— \'erse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. St. Wilfred, The Conversion of — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Sack of the Gods, The — Vers?: Strangers drawn from the ends of the earth, jewelled and | lumed were we See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XVII. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. S.vcrifice of Kk-TIkh, The — ■ Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Safe Man, Griffiths, the — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Sahib's War, A — Short Story See: Traffics and Discoveries S.\LT Lake City See: American Notes San Francisco, Impressions of See: American Notes S.\PPERS — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. S.VYYiD Ahmed (Wabahi), From the ]\Iasjid-al-Aqsa of — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries School Song, A — Verse See- Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in Stalky & Co. as a Dedication, q. v. Scindia to Delhi, With — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Tiie same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Screw-Guns — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. 2iy Sea and the Hills, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Seal Lullaby— Verse "Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us" See: Jungle Book, The First, s. v. The White Seal Seal, The White — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The First Sea of Marmora, Business ix the — Article See: Sea Warfare Seattle (Washington) See: American Notes Sea Warfare — Articles and Verse Contents Tke Fringes of the Fleet Tales of "The Trade" Destroyers at Jutland Sea-Wife, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Second-rate Woman, Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. A- Second Voyage, The — -Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Seeonee Pack, Hunting-Song OF THE — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First Sending of D.\na Da, The — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. September, In — Verse See: DeF)artmenVal Ditties, etc., s. v. Two Months Sergeant's Weddin', The— Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. "Serv.\nt When He Reigneth, A" — Verse Sec: Songs From Books Service !Man — -Verse See: Five Nations, The Service Songs — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. Sestin.a of the Tramp-Royal — \'erse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Settler, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Seven Seas, The — -Verse Contents Dedication to the City of Bombay A Song of the English The First Chantey The Last Chantey The Merchantmen McAndrew's Hymn The Miracles The Native-Born The King The Rhyme of the Three Sealers The Derelict The Song of the Banjo "The Liner She's a Lady" Mulholland's Contract Anchor Song The Sea-Wife Hymn Before Action To the True Romance The Flowers The Last Rhyme of True Thomas The Story of Ung The Three-Decker An American The Mary Gloster Sestina of the Tramp-Royal BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS "Back to the Army .-Vgain" "Birds of Prey" March "Soldier an' Sailor Too" Sappers 220 That Day 'The Men That Fought at Minden " Cholera Camp The Ladies Bill 'Awkins The Mother-Lodge "Follow Me 'Ome" The Sergeant's Weddin' The Jacket The 'Eathen The Shut-Eye Sentry "Mary Pity Women!" For to Admire L'Envoi Shadow of His Hand, The — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Shillin' A Day — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Ships Destroy Us Above, The — Verse See: Fringes of the Fleet, The. The same verse reprinted in Sea War- fare, q. V. Ship That Found Herself, The — Short Story See: Day's Work, The Shipwrights, King Henry VII AND the — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies Ship and the Gr.^sshopper — \'erse See: Jungle Book, The First Shush AN, Jews in^Short Story See: Life's Handicap Shut-Eye Sentry, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Simla D.\ncers, The Plea of THE — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Singapore — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v, A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Sing-Song of Old Man Kan- garoo, The — Short Story See: Just So Stories Simple Simon — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Sir Richard's Song — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Slaves of the Lamp. Parts I AND II — Short Story See: Stalky & Co. "Sleipner" Late "Thurinda" — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Smoke of Manila, A — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Smuggler's Song, A — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. " Snarleyow " — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col lected Verse, q. v. "Soldier an' Sailor Too'' - Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Soldier, Soldier — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Tlie same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Soldiers Three, The "Story of the G.xdsbys," In Bl.\ck and White — Short Stories and Dialogues Contents The God from the Machine Of Those Called Private Learoyd's Story The Big Drunk Draf The Wreck of the Visigoth The Solid ATuldoon With the Main Guard In the Matter of a Private Black Jack 22 1 THE "story of the GADSBYS" Poor Dear Mamma {Dialogue) The World Without (Dialogue) The Tents of Kedar (Dialogue) With Any Amazement (Dialogue) The Garden of Eden (Dialogue) Fatima (Dialogue) The Valley of the Shadow (Dialogue) The Swelling of Jordan (Dialogue) L'Envoi (Verse) IN BLACK AND W'HITE Dray Wara Yow Dee The Judgment of Dungara At Howli Thana Gemini At Twenty -Two In P'luod Time The Sending of Dana Da On the City Wall Soldier Stories — Short Sto- ries Contents With the Main Guard The Drums of the Fore and Aft The Man Who Was The Courting of Dinah Shadd The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney The Taking of Lungtungpen The Madness of Private Ortheris Solid Muldoon, The — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Solo from Libretto of Nau- lahka — Verse Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter V Something I Owe to the Soil That Grew — Verse See: Kim, beginning of Chapter \TII Song— Verse We be the Gods of the East See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XIX Song Against People, IMowgli's — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second Song at Cock-Crow, A — ^Verse See: Years Between, The Song from Libretto of Nau- lahka — Verse In the State of Kot-Kumharsen, where the wild diicoits ' bound See: Naulahka, The. Heading far Chapter \T Song in Storm, A — -Verse See: Years Between, The Song of Diego Valdez, The — \'erse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Song of Kabir, A — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second. The same verse reprinted in Songg From Books, q. v. Song of the Banjo, The — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Song of Seven Cities, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Song of the Cities The— Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Song of the Dead, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse rep'-inted in Collected Verse, q. v. Song of the English, A — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \erse, q. v. Song of the Fifth River — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. 222 SCNG OF THE LaTHES, ThE — Verse See: Years Between, The Song of the Little Hunter, The — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second Song of the Men's Side — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Song of the Old Guard — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries Song of the Red War-Boat — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Song of the Sons, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. Song of the Wise Children — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Song of the Women, A — Verse Ye know the Hundred Danger Time when gay with paint and flowers See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter X Song of the Women, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Song of Travel, A — Verse See: Songs From Books Songs From Books — Verse Contents "Cities and Thrones and Powers" The Recall Puck's Song The Way Through the Woods A Three Part Song The Run of the Downs Brookland Road The Sack of the Gods The Kingdom Tarrant JNloss Sir Richard's Song A Tree Song Cuckoo Song A Charm The Piairie Cold Iron A Carol ''My New Cut Ashlar" Eddi's Service The Fairies' Siege Mithras The New Knighthood Harp Song of the Dane Women Chapter Headings The Thousandth Man The Winners A St. Helena Lullaby The Captive The Puzzler Hadramauti Gallio's Song The Bees and the Flies "Our Fathers Also" A British-Roman Song A Pict Song The Stranger ''Timini" "Poor Honest Men" "When the Great Ark" Prophets at Home Jubal and Tubal Cain The Voortrekker A School Song "A Servant When He Reigneth" "Our Fathers of Old" The Heritage Song of the Fifth River Chapter Headings The Children's Song If— The Prodigal Son The Necessitarian The Jester A Song of Travel The Two-Sided Man An Astrologer's Song 'The Power of the Dog" The Rabbi's Song The Bee Boy's Song The Return of the Children Old Mother Laidinwool The Looking-Glass The Queen's Men The City of Sleep The Widower The Prayer of Miriam Cohen Gow's Watch The Wishing Caps "By the Hoof of the Wild Goac"" Chapter Headings Song of the Red War-Boat Blue Roses Butterflies My Lady's Law 223 The Nursing Sister The Love bong of Har Dyal A Dedication Mother o' Mine The Only Son Romulus and Remus The Egg-Shell The King's Task Poseidon's Law A Truthful Song A Smuggler's Song King Henry Vll and the Shipwrights The Wet Litany The Ballad of Minepit Shaw Heriot's Ford Frankie's Trade The Juggler's Song Thorkild's Song Song of the Men's Side The Four Angels A Song of Kabir Song, The Oldest — Verse See: Years Between, The Song to Mithras, A — \'erse See: Puck of Pook's Hill Sons of jMartha, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Sons, The Song of the — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. _ The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. South Africa — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Spies' March, The — -Verse See: Years Between, The Spirit of the People, The — Article See: France at War Spring Running, The — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second Spring Time, In — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. .Square-toes, Brother — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies Stalky & Co. — Short Stories Contents Dedication {Verse) In Ambush Slaves of the Lamp, Part I An Unsavory Interlude The Impressionists The Moral Reformers A Little Prep The Flag of Their Country The Last Term Slaves of the Lamp, Part II Steam Tactics — Short Story See: TrafEcs and Discoveries Stellenbosh — ^\'erse (Composite Columns) See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Stockyard Chorus, Toolungala — Verse And some are sulky, while some will plunge See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. v. Thrown Away Story of Muhammad Din, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Story of the Gadsbys See: Soldiers Three Story of Ung, The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Story of Uriah, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Strangers Dr.a.wn From the Ends of the E.vrth, Jewelled .\ND Plumed Were We — Verse The Sack of the Gods See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XVII Str-anger, The — ^Verse See: Songs From Books 224 Strength of a Likeness, On The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. SlBALTERN, OnLY A — ShOKT Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Subalterns, Haunted — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Submarines I and II — Article See: Fringes of the Fleet, The. The same story reprinted in Sea War- fare, q. V. SuDDHo, In the House of — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Sunday" at Home, My— Short Story See: Day's Work, The Supplementary Chapter, A — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Surgeon, The House- Short Story See: Actions and Reactions Sussex — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse re.jrinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Suttee, The Last — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Swelling of Jordan, The — J3i.\LOGUE (in the "Story of THE Gadsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. " Swept and Garnished " — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A Sydney — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the Kn^lish. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. Tacoma (Washington) See: American Notes above Taking of Lungtungpen, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills. The same story reprinted in Soldier -Stories, q. v. Tale of Two Cities, A — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Tarrant Moss — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in Plain Tales from the Hills. T. A. — Thomas Atkins — Verse Dedication poem to Barrack-Room Ballads See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Tents of Ked.ar, The — Dia- logue (IN THE "Story of the (iADSBYS") See: Soldiers Three, etc. i'li.vT Day — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. ihe same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. The Camel's Hu.mp Is an Ugly Lump — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. How the Camel Got His Hump "TiiKiR Lawful Occasions" — Parts I, II — Short Story .See; Traffics and Discoveries The Xi(;ht We Felt the Earth Would Mcjve — Verse T)irge of the Langurs -Ste.- Jungle H(K)k, The Second, 3. v. The Miracle of Purun Bhagat 225 Theology, Natural — Verse Sef: Years Between, The The Only Son Lay Down Again AND Dreamed That He Dreamed a Dream — Verse The Only Son See: Many Inventions, s. v. In the Rukh The People of Eastern Ice, They Are Melting Like thf: Snows — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second, s. v. Quiquem There Came to Poor Exile of the Beach a Erin — Verse American Song See: Life's Handicap, Doola s. V. Namgay There Is a Crack Packet — Crack Packet o' Fame — Verse See: Captains Courageous. Chapter IV There Is Pleasure ix the Wet, Wet Clay — Verse Op. 3 See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter VH. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. There Runs A Road by Merrow Down — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. How the First Letter Was Written There's a Convict ]More in the Central J.\il — \'erse The Running of Shindand See: Life's Handicap, s. v. The Head of the District See: Naulahka, T^e. Heading for Chapter I. The same verse re- printed in Songs From Books, q. v. There Was Never a Queen like Balkis— Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. The Butterfly That Stamped The Sky Is Le.\d and Our Faces Are Red — ^Verse Himalayan See: Life's Handicap, s. v. End of the Passage At the The Stream Is Shrunk — The Pool Is Dry — Verse Dedication See: Jungle Book, The Second The Wind Went Down With the Sunset — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries, s. v. Their Lawful Occasions, Part II "They" — Short Story See: Traffics and Discoveries Things and the jMan — \'erse See: Years Between, The This I Saw When the Rites Were Done — Verse In Seonee See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XII. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. This Is the Song — Verse AIouth-Filling See: Just So Stories, s. v. The Sing Song of Old Man Kan- garoo Just So Stories, s. v. How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin There's a Whisper Down the This Uninhabited Isl.\nd — Field Where the Year Has Verse Shot Her Yield — Verse 5 See: Departmental Ditties, s. v. L'Envoi. Same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, s. v. The Long Trail There Was a Strife 'Twixt Man and Maid — Verse Auchinleck's Ride To — Verse Barrack-Room Thomas Atkins, Dedication Poem to Ballads See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. 226 Thorkild's Song — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Thousandth Man, The — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Three and — .\n Extra — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Three Captains, The Rhyme of the — \"erse (This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American Pirate. It is founded on fact) See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Three-Decker , The — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Three Musketeers, The — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Three-Part Song, A — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Three Sealers, The Rhyme of the — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Three Young Men, Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel Through the Fire — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Thrown Away — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills "Thurint)a," "Sleipner," Late — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel "Tiger! Tiger!" — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The First Tiglath Pileser — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel To Be Filed for Reference — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills ToBRAH, Little — Short Story See: Life's Handicap Tod's Amendment — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Tomb of His Ancestors, The — Short Story See: Day's Work, The Tom LIN SON — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Tommy — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Toolungala Stockyard Chorus — Verse And some are sulky, while some will plunge See: Plain Tales from the Hills, s. v. Thrown Away toomai of the elephants — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The First ^Pjjj. To THE True Rom.\nce — Verse See: Many Inventions. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse and The Seven Seas, q. v. To the Unknown Goddess — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. To Thomas Atkins — Verse Dedication Poem to Barrack-Room Ballads See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. 227 Track of a Lie, The— Short Tree of Justice, The— Short Story Story Su: Under the Deodars, etc. "Trade, The"— Verse See: Sea Warfare "Trade, the," Tales of — Ar- ticle See: Sea Warfare Traffics and Discoveries — Short Stories and Verse Contents From the Masjid-al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi) ( Verse) The Captive Poseidon's Law {Verse) The Bonds of Discipline The Runners {Verse) A Sahib's \\ ar The Wet Litany {Verse) "Their Lawful Occasions" — Part I "Their Lawful Occasions" — Part II The King's Task ( Verse) The Comprehension of Private Cop- per The Necessitarian {Verse) Steam Tactics Kaspar's bong in "Varda"' (Verse) "Wireless" Song of the Old Guard {Verse) The Army of a Dream — Part I The Army of a Dream — Part II The Return of the Children {Verse) "They" From Lyden's "Irenius" {Verse) Mrs. Bathurst "Our Fathers Also" {Verse) Below the Mill Dam Traffic, The Distukbkr of — Short Story Sec: Many Inventions Trail, The Long — Verse See: Collected \ erse and Depart- mental Ditties, etc. s. v. L'Envoi Tramp-Royal, Sestina of the — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Translation, A — Verse See: Diversity of Creatures, A Treasure and the Law, The — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill See: Rewards and Fairies Tree Song, A — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. Trench Life on the Mountain Side — Article See: France at War Trooper of Horse, A — See: Eyes of Asia, The Troopin' — Verse (Our Army in the East) See: Departmental Ditties, «-1c. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Truce of the Bear, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. True Romance, To the — Verse Sec: Many Inventions. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse and Seven Seas, The, q. v. True Thomas, The I>ast Rhyme OF — Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \ erse, q. v. Truthful Song, A — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Twenty-Two, At — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. 'J'wo Cities, A Tale of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Two Cousins, The — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books under the title "Queen's Men, The." q. v. 228 Two Kopjes- Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. Two Months (In June) — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Two iVIoNTHS (In September) — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Two-Sided Man, The — Verse See: Songs From Books. The same verse reprinted in Kim, q. v. u Ubique — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Ulster — Verse See: Years Between, The Undertaker's Horse, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Undertakers, The — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The Second Under the Deodars, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Wee Willie Winkie — Short Stories and Dialogue Contents The Education of Otis Veere. Parts I, II At the Pit's Mouth A \\ ayside Comedy The Pit Ihat They Digged The Hill of Illusion [Dialogue) A Second-rate Woman Only a Subaltern THE PHANTOM 'rICKSHAW The Phantom 'Rickshaw My Own True Ghost Story The Track of a Lie The Strange Ride of Morrowhie Jukes The Man Who Would Be King WEi: WILLIE WINKIE Wee Willie Winkie Baa, Baa, black ^-heep His Majesty the King The Drums of the 1-ore and Aft Ung, The Story of Verse See: Seven Seas, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. United States, Impressions of THE See: American Notes Unknown Goddess, To the — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Unsavory Interlude. An — Short Story See: Stalky & Co. Uriah, The Story of — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Valley of the Shadow, The — Dialogue (in the " Story of THE Gadsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. "Varda," Kaspar's Song In — Verse See: Traffics and Discoveries \'eil Them, Cover Them. Wall Them Round — Verse See: Jungle Book, The Second, s. v. Letting in the Jungle Venus .\nno Domini -Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Verdicts, The— Verse See: Years Between, The Veteran, The — Verse See: Years Between, The \'icTORiA — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. A Song of the English. The same verse reprinted in Collected \'erse, q. v. X'illage That Voted thi: Earth Was Flat, The — Short Story See: Diversity ol Creatures, A 2H) Virginity, The — Verse See: Years Between, The Visigoth, The Wreck of the — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. VOORTREKKER, ThE — VeRSE See: Songs From Books Vortex, The — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A Voyage, The Second — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. w Wage-Slaves, The — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Walking Delegate, A — Short Story See: Day's Work, The Wandering Jew, The — Short Story See: Life's Handicap War-Boat, Song of the Red — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies Warfare, Sea — Short Stories and Verse Contents The Fringes of the Fleet Tales of '"The Trade" Destroyers at Jutland War, France At — Short Stories Contents Poem: France On the Frontier of Civilization The Nation's Spirit and a New In- heritance Battle Spectacle and a Review The Spirit of the People Life in Trenches on the Mountain Side The Common Task of a Great People War, The Holy — Verse See: Years Between, The War, The Honours of — Short Story See: Diversity of Creatures, A Waste, Public — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Watches of the Night — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills WATERV.A.L, Half-Ballad of — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Wayside Comedy, A — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Way Through the Woods, The — Verse See: Rewards and Fairies We Be the Gods of the East — Verse Song See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter XIX Wedded Wife, His — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Wee Willie Winkie — Short Story See: Under the Deodars, etc. Weland's Sword — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill Weland's Sword, The Runes ON — Verse See: Puck of Pook's Hill We Meet in an Evil Land — Verse In Shadowland See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter IX. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. V. 230 Wet Litany, The — Verse Sre: Traffics and Discoveries. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Whale, How the — Got Throat — Short Story See: Just So Stories His Whanghoa, Erastasius of the — Short Story See: Abaft the Funnel What Happened — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. What Is the Moral? Who Rides ^Iay Read — Verse See: Story of the Gadsbys in Soldiers Three, s. v. L'Envoi What of the Hunting, Hunter Bold? — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First, s. v. Tiger! Tiger! What the People Said — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. When a Lover Hies Abroad — Verse Chorus from Libretto of Naulahka See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter VIII. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted — Verse See: Seven Seas, The, s. v. L'Envoi. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v When 'Omer Smote 'is Bloomin' Lyre — Verse Dedication poem to Barrack-Room Ballads See: Seven Seas, The. The -ame verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q, v. When the Cabin Port-Holes Are Dark and Green — Verse See: Just So Stories, s. v. How the Whale Got His Throat "When the Gre.\t Ark " — Verse See: Songs From Books Where the East Wind Is Brewed — Verse See: Fringes of the Fleet, The. The same verse reprinted in Sea Warfare, q. v. White Horses — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. White Hussars, The Rout of the — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills White Man's Burden, The^ Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same Verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. White Seal, The — Short Story See: Jungle Book, The First Who Hath Desired the Sea — The Immense and Contempt- uous Surges? — Verse See: Kim, beginning of Chapter XIII Who Hath Desired the Sea— The Sight of Salt Water Unbounded? — Verse See: Kim, beginning of Chapter XII Widow at Windsor, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col lected Verse, q. v. Widower, The — \'erse See: Songs From Books Widow's Party, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. "Wilful-Missing" — V'ersk See: Five Nations, The. The same verse rejirinted in Collected N'erse, q. v. William the Conqueror — Short Story See: Day's Work, The 231 Windsor, The Widow at — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected \ erse, q. v. Winged Hats, The — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill. Winners, The — Verse See: Songs From Books ' ' Wireless " — Short Story See: Traffics and Discoveries Wise Children, Song of the — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Wishing C.a.ps, The — Verse "Good Luck, she is never a lady" See: Kim, beginning of Chap. JV. The same verse reprinted in Songs From Books, q. v. Witches, Marklake — Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies With Any Amazement — Dia- logue (in the "Story of the Gadsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. With Mirth, Thou Pretty Bird, Rejoice See: Actions and Reactions, s. v. The House Surgeon Without Benefit of Clergy — Short Story See: Life's Handicap With Scindia to Delhi — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. With the Main Guard—Short Story See: Sokliers Three, etc. The same story reprinted in Soldier Stories, q. v. With the Night Mail — Short Story A Story of 2,000 A.D. (.Together with e.vtracts from the magazine in which it appeared) Extracts: Aerial Board of Control Notes Correspondence Review (Life of Xavier Lavelle) Advertisements See: Actions and Reactions Women, A Song of The— Verse Ye Know the Hundred Danger Time When Gay with Paint and Flowers See: Naulahka, The. Heading for Chapter X "Women, Love o' " — Short Story See: Many Inventions Women, The Song of the — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. Word of Mouth, By — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Workshops, The Conundrum OF THE — X'erse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. World Without, The — Dia- logue (in the "Story of the G.\dsbys") See: Soldiers Three, etc. Wreck of the Visigoth, The — Short Story See: Soldiers Three, etc. Wressley of the Foreign Office — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Wrong Thing, The— Short Story See: Rewards and Fairies X Xavier Lavelle, The Life of — Short Story See: Actions and Reactions, s. v. With the Night Mail 232 Years Between, The — Verse Contents The Rowers The \'eterans The Declaration of London Ulster The Covenant France "For All We Have and Are" A Song in Storm The Outlaws Zion Lord Roberts The Question The Choice The Holy War The Houses Russia to the Pacifists The Irish Guards A Nativity En-Dor A Recantation My Boy Jack The Verdicts Mesopotamia The Hyaenas The Spies' March The Sons of Martha Mary's Son The Song of the Lathes Gethsemane The Pro-Consuls The Craftsman Things and the Man The Benefactors The Dead King A Death-Bed Gehazi The \irginity A Pilgrim's Way The Oldest Song Natural Theology A Song at Cock-Crow The Female of the Species Epitaphs "The City of Brass" Justice \'eere, Thk Education of Otis — Parts I axd II — -Short Storv See: Under the Deodars, etc. Ve Know the Hundred Danger Time When Gay with Paint AND Flowers A Song of the Women See: Naulahka, The. Chapter X Yellowstone Park See: American Notes Heading for "Yoked with an Unbeliever" — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills You Can Work It Out by Fractions or by Simple Rule OF Three — Verse See: Jungle Book, The First, s. v. Her Majesty's Servants Youghal's Sais, Miss — Short Story See: Plain Tales from the Hills Young British Soldier, The — Verse See: Departmental Ditties, etc. The same verse reprinted in Col- lected Verse, q. v. Young Men, The Feet of the — Verse See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Young ISIen at the Manor — Short Story See: Puck of Pook's Hill Young Men, The Short Stories See: Abaft the Funnel Thrke — Young Queen, The — Verse (The commonwealth of Australia, inaugurated New Year's Day, 1901) See: Five Nations, The. The same verse reprinted in Collected Verse, q. v. Your P.vtience, Sirs; the Devil Took Me Up — Verse The Grand Master's Defence See: Naulahlca, The. Heading for Chapter IV ZioN — Verse See: Years Between, The ZiON, The Doorkeepers of — Verse See: Sea Warfare Zodiac, The Children of the — Short Story See: Many Inventions 233 O. HENRY LITTLE PICTURES OF O. HENRY Bv Arthur W. Page I N Greensboro, North Carolina, at the time of Will Porter's youth, there were four classes of people: decent l^^'--'5 K«cC^ white folks, mean white folks, decent "^'' Y^M^iM "niggers" and mean "niggers." Will Porter and his people belonged to the first class. If any dependence can be laid upon early "in- fluences" that affect an author's work, in O. Henry's case we must certainly consider Aunt "Lina" Porter. She attended to his bringing up at home and he attended her instruction at school. His mother died when \\ ill Porter was very young, and his aunt, Miss Evelina Porter, ran the Porter house- hold as well as the school next door, and a most remarkable school it was. During these days Will showed decided artistic talent, and it was predicted that he would follow in the footsteps of his kinsman, Tom Worth, the cartoonist, but the literary instinct was there, too, and the quaint dry humor and the keen insight into the peculiarities of human nature. .After the short school-days Porter found employ- ment as prescription clerk in the drugstore of his uncle, Clarke Porter, and it was there that his gen- ius as an artist and writer budded forth and gave the first promise of the work of after years. The old Porter drugstore was the social club of the town in those days. There were some rare characters who 235 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS gathered around that old stove, some queer per- sonalities, and Porter caught them and transferred them to paper by both pen and pencil in an illus- trated comedy satire that was his first public lit- erary and artistic effort. When this was read and shown around the stove the picture was so true to life and caught the peculiarities of the dramatis personae so aptly it was some time before the young playwright was on speaking terms with some of his old friends. Young Porter was true-hearted and steadfast to those he cared for, as gentle and sensitive as a woman, retiring to a fault, pure, clean, and hon- orable. In these characteristics Will Porter followed in his father's footsteps. in 1 88 1 Will Porter went to Texas. He ne\er again lived in Greensboro, hut Greensboro was never altogether out of his mind. Many years later, when he was living in New York, he wrote this account of himself — an account which gives an inkling of the whimsical charm of the man and his fondness for the old life in the old land of his birth. " 1 was born and raised in 'No'th Ca'lina' and at eighteen went to Texas and ran wild on the prairies. Wild yet, but not so wild. Can't get to loving New Yorkers. Live all alone in a great big two rooms on quiet old Irving Place three doors from Wash. Irving's old home. Kind of lonesome. Was think- ing lately (since the April moon commenced to shine) how I'd like to be down South, where I could happen over to Miss Ethel's or Miss Sallie's and sit on the porch — not on a chair — on the edge of the porch, and lay my straw hat on the steps and lay my head back against the honeysuckle on the post — and just talk. .And Miss Ethel would go in 236 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS directly (they say presently up here) and bring out the guitar. She would complain that the K string was broken, but no one would believe her, and pretty soon all of us would be singing the 'Swanee River' and 'in the Evening by the Moonlight' and — oh, gol darn it, what's the use of wishing." II — 1 Ex.\N Days Will Porter found a new kind of life in Texas — a life that filled his mind with that rich variety of types and adventures which later was translated into his stories. Here he got — from observation, and not from experience, as has often been said, for he was never a cowboy — the originals of his Western characters and Western scenes. He looked on at the more picturesque life about him rather than shared in it; though through his warm sym- pathy and his vivid imagination he entered into its spirit as completely as any one who had fully lived its varied parts. Friends who knew him intimately saw other sides of Will Porter's character. With them his boyish love of fun and of good-natured and some- times daredevil mischief came again to the surface, as well as those refinements of feeling and manner that were his heritage as one of the "decent white folks" of Greensboro. .And with them, too, came out the ironical fate that pursued him most of his life — to be a dreamer and yet to be harnessed to tasks that brought his head from the clouds to the commonplaces of the store and the street. Per- haps it was this very bending of a sky-seeking im- agination to the dusty comedy of every day that brought him later to see life as he pictured it in "The Four Million," with its mingling of Caliph Haroun- 2M THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS al-Raschid's romance with the adventures of shop- girls and restaurant keepers. At any rate, even the Texas of the drug-clerk days and of the bank- clerk period appealed to his sense of the humorous and romantic and grotesque. Here is what one inti- mate of those days recalls of his character and exploits: "Will Porter, shortly after coming to Texas, became a member of the Hill City Quartette, of .'\ustin, composed of C. E. Hillyer, R. H. Edmundson, Howard Long, and himself. Porter was the littlest man in the crowd, and, of course, basso profundo. He was about five feet six inches tall, weighed about one hundred and thirty pounds, had coal black hair, gray eyes, and a long, carefully twisted moustache; looked as though he might be a combina- tion between the French and the Spanish, and 1 think he once told me that the blood of the Hug- uenot flowed in his veins. He was one of the most accomplished gentlemen 1 ever knew. His voice was soft and musical, with just enough rattle in it to rid it of all touch of effeminacy. He had a keen sense of humor, and there were two distinct meth- ods of address which was characteristic with him — his business address and his friendly address. As a business man, his face was calm, almost expres- sionless; his demeanor was steady, even calculated. He always worked for a high class of employers, was never wanting for a position, and was prompt, accurate, talented, and very efficient; but the min- ute he was out of business — that was all gone. He always approached a friend with a merry twinkle in his eye and an expression which said: 'Come on, boys, we are going to ha\e a lot of fun,' and we usually did. 238 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS " If W. S. p. at this time had any ambitions as a writer, he never mentioned it to me. 1 do not recall that he was fond of reading. One day 1 quoted some lines to him from a poem by John Alex- ander Smith. He made inquiry about the author, borrowed the book, and committed to memory a great many passages from it, but I do not recall e\'er having known him to read any other book. 1 asked him one day why he never read fiction. His reply was: 'That it was all tame compared with the romance in his own life,' — which was really true." But the lure of the pen was getting too strong for Will Porter to resist. Life as a teller in the First National Bank of Austin was too routine not to be relieved by some outlet for his love of fun and for his creative literary instinct. -An opportunity opened to buy a printing outfit, and he seized it and used it for a yeai' to issue the Rolling Stone, a weekly paper that suggested even then his later method as a humorist and as a photographic por- trayer of odd types of humanity, 111 — The New York D.^YS^RICH.\RD Duffy's Narkative His coming to New York, with the resolution "to write for bread," as he said once in a mood of acrid humor, was dramatic, as is a whisper compared to a subdued tumult of \oices. I believe 1 am correct in saying that outside his immediate family few were aware that O. Henry was entering this "nine- day town" except Oilman Hall, my associate on Ainslee's Magazine, the publishers, Messrs. Street and Smith, and myself. For some time we had 239 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS been buying stories from him, written in his perfect Spencerian copperplate hand that was to become familiar to so many editors. Only then he wrote always with a pen on white paper, whereas once he was established in New York he used a lead pencil sharpened to a needle's point on one of the yellow pads that were always to be seen on his table. The stories he published at this period were laid either in the Southwest or in Central .America, and those of the latter countries form the bulk of his first issued volume, "Cabbages and Kings." It was because we were sure of him as a writer that our pub- lishers willingly advanced the cheque that brought him to New York and assured him a short breathing spell to look round and settle. .Also, it was be- cause O. Henry wanted to come. You could always make him do anything he wanted to do, as he had a way of saying, if you were coaxing him into an invitation he had no intention of pursuing into effect. It was getting late on a fine spring afternoon down at Duane and William streets when he came to meet us. From the outer gate the boy presented a card bearing the name William Sydney Porter. I don't remember just when we found out that "O. Henry" was merely a pen-name; but think it was during the correspondence arranging that he come to New York. I do remember, however, that when we were preparing our yearly prospectus, we had written to him, asking that he tell us what the initial O. stood for, as we wished to use his photograph and preferred to have his name in full. It was the custom and would make his name stick faster in the minds of readers. With a courteous flourish of iippreciation at the honor we were offering him in 240 THE COUNIRY LI IE PRESS making him known lo the world, he sent us "Ohv- ler," and so he appeared as Olivier Henry in the first publishers' announcement in which his stories were heralded. Later he confided to us. smiling, what a lot of fun he had had in picking out a first name of sufficient ad\ertising elTectiveness that began with O. As happens in these matters, whatever mind picture Oilman Hall or I had formed of him from his letters, his handwriting, his stories, vanished before the impression of the actual man. He wore a dark suit of clothes, I recall, and a four-in-hand tie of bright color. He carried a black derby, high-crowned, and walked with a springy, noiseless step. To meet him for the first time you felt his most notable quality to be reticence, not a reticence of social timidity, but a reticence of deliberateness. If you also were observing, you would soon under- stand that his reticence proceeded from the fact that civilly yet masterfully he was taking in every Item of the "you" being presented lo him to the accompaniment of convention's phrases and ideas together with the "you" behind this presenta- tion. It was because he was able thus to assemble and sift all the multifarious elements of a person- ality with sleight-of-hand swiftness that you find him characterizing a person or a neighborhood in a sentence or two: and once I heard him characterize a list of editors he knew each in a phrase. On his first afternoon in New York we took him on our usual walk uptown from Duane Street to about Madison Square, ihat was a long walk for O. Henry, as any who knew him may witness. Another long one was when he walked about a mile over a fairly high hill with me on zigzag path 241 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS through autumn woods. I showed him plains below us and hills stretching away so far and blue that they looked like the illimitable sea from the deck of an ocean liner. But it was not until we approached the station from which we were to take the train back to New York that he showed the least sign of animation. "What's the matter Bill?" I asked. "I thought you'd like to see some real country." His answer was: " Kunn'l, how kin you expeck me to appreciate the glories of nature when you walk me over a mounting like that an' I got new shoes on?" Then he stood on one foot and on the other, caressing each aching member for a second or two, and smiled with bashful knowingness so like him. It was when he li\ed in West twenty-fourth Street that Robert H. Davis, then of the staff of the New York World, ran him to cover, as it were, and concluded a contract with him to furnish one stor\- a week, for a year, at a fixed salary. It was a gigantic task to face, and I have heard of no other writer who put the same quality of effort and ma- terial in his work able to produce one story every seven days for fifty-two successive weeks. The contract was renewed, I believe, and all during this time O. Henry was selling stories to magazines as well. His total of stories amount to two hun- dred and fifty-one, and when it is considered that they were written in about eight years, one may give him a good mark for industry, especially as he made no professional vaunt about "loving his work." Once, when dispirited, he said that almost any other way of earning a living was less of a toil than writing. The mood is common to writers, but not so common as to happen to a man who practi- 242 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS callv had editors or agents of editors sitting on his doorstep requesting copy. He was a man you could sit with a long while and feel no necessity for talking; but ever so often a passerby would evoke a remark from him that con- \erted an iota of humanity into the embryo of a story. Although he spoke hardly ever to any one in the house except the people who managed it, he had the lodgers all ticketed in his mind. He was friendly but distant with persons of the neighbor- hood he was bound to meet regularly, because he lived so long there, and I have often thought he must have persisted as a mysterious man to them simply because he was so far from being com- municative. 243 THE O. HENRY INDEX Being a Guide to 0. Henry's Books Abdication, the Higher 5«^.HeartoftheWest Ability, From Each According TO His See: Voice of the City, The About Town, iMan See: Four Millfon, The Accolade, the Guardian of the See: Roads of Destiny According to His Ability, From Each See: Voice of the City, The AccoRCiNG to Their Lights See: Trimmed Lamp The Adjustment of Nature, An See: Four Million, The Admiral, The See: Cabbages and Kings Adventures of Shamrock JoLNES, The 5^^.- Sixes andSevens After Twenty Years See: Four Million, The A La Carte, Cupid See: Heart of the West A La Carte, Springtime See: Four Million, The Answers, Queries and See: Rolling Stones Anthem, The Cop and the See: Four Million, The Aphasia, A Ramble in See: Strictly Business Apology, An See: Rolling Stones Apple, The Sphinx See: Heart of the \Ve^t Arabia, A Night in New See: Strictly Business Arabian Night, A Madison Square 5^^; Trimmed Lamp, The Arcadia, Transienis in See: Voice of the City, The Archer, Mammon and ihe See: Four Million The Aristocracy Versus Hash See- Rolling Stones 24 = Art and the Bronco See: Roads of Destiny Art, Conscience in See: Gentle Grafter, The Arts, Masters of See: Cabbages and Kings Assessor of Success, The See: Trimmed Lamp, The At Arms with Morpheus See: Sixes and Sevens Atavism of John Tom Little Bear, The See: Rolling Stones Atwood, Johnny See: Note under Cabbages and Kings Auto Waits, While the See: Voice of the City, The B Babes in the Jungle See: Strictly Business Badge of Policeman O'RooN; The See: Trimmed Lamp, The Bagdad, A Bird of See: Strictly Business Bargainer, A Blackjack See: Whirligigs Best Seller See: Options Between Rounds See: Four iMillion, The Bexar Script, No. 2692 See: Rolling Stones Billy. The Emancipation of See: Roads of Destiny Bird OF Bagdad, A See: Strictly Business Black Bill, The Hiding of See: Options Black Eagle, The Passing of See: Roads of Destiny Blackjack Bargainer, A See: Whirligigs Blend, The Lost See: Trimmed Lamp, The Blind Man's Holiday See: Whirligigs Bohemia, A Philistine in See: Voice of the City, The Bohemia, Extradited from See: Voice of the City, The Bo-Peep of the Ranches, Madame See: Whirligigs Bottle, The Lotus and the See: Cabbages and Kings Brickdust Row See: Trimmed Lamp, The Brief Debut of Tildy, The See: Four Million, The Broadway, Innocents of See: Gentle Grafter, The Broker, The Romance of a Busy See: Four Million, The Bronco, Art and the See: Roads of Destiny Burglar, Tommy's See: Whirligigs Business, Strictly — Short Stories See: Strictly Business Buried Treasure See: Options 246 BuRNEY, Transformation of Martin 5^;; Sixes and Sevens Dicky, D Kou^e et Noir, D Two Kecalls, A The Vitagraphoscope, A-C Blsy Brokliv. I hi. Romance Cabby's Seat, From the OF a See: Four Million, The Buyer from Cactus City, 'I'me See: Trimmed Lamp, The liY Courier See: Four Million, The Caballero's Way, The See: Heart of the West Cabbages and Kings The stories in this volume, though apparently disconnected chapters, fall into four main groups, with the exception of one independent tale, "The Lptus and the Bottle." Rut the stories all have a loose inter- relation owing to the fact that Coralio in Central America is their common stage, and that the dramatis person^e, generally speaking, is the same throughout. For the advantage of readers who wish to get the chapters of the va- rious stories in their natural order the groups are here marked alpha- betically. For instance, all the chap- ters centring about Frank Good- win are grouped with " I he Money .Maze" as A. Those about Johnny Atwood with "Cupid's Exile Num- ber Two" as B. Those about Keogh and Clancy with "The Phonograph and the Graft" as C. Those about Dicky as D and those about " I he .Admiral" as E. Contents: The Proem: By the (Carpenter, .\ " Fox-in-the- .Morning," A The Lotus and the Bottle Smith, A Caupht. A Cupid's Exile Number Two, B The Phonograph and the (iraft C, Money .Maze, A The Admiral, E The Flag Paramount, F The Shamrock and the Palm, C The Remnants of the Code, .A Shoes, B Ships, B Masters of Arts, ( . See: Four .Million, The Cactus City, Thi: Buyer from See: Trimmed, Lamp, The Cad, The Cai.ipii and the See: Sixes and Sevens Cafe, A Cosmopolite in a See: Four .Million, The Caliph and the Cad, The See: Sixes and Sevens Caliph, Cupid, and the Clock, The See: Four Million, The Calliope, The Reformation of See: Heart of the West Call Loan, A See: Heart of the West Call of the Tame, The See: Strictly Business Call, The Cl.\rion See: Voice of the City, The Call, The Friendly See: Rolling Stones Calloway's Code See: Whirligigs Campfire Light, New York by See: Sixes and Sevens Candy Man, Nemesis and the See: Voice of the Cit>', The Carpenter, The Proem: By the See: Cabbages and Kings Cartoons byO. Henry See: Rolling Stones Case, A Departmental See: Roads of Destiny 247 Caught See: Cabbages and Kings Celebrate, The Day We See: Sixes and Sevens Central America, Stories of See: Locality Chair of Philanthromathema- Tics, The See: Gentle Grafter, The Champion of the Weather, The See: Sixes and Sevens Chance, The Ghost of a See: Sixes and Sevens Chaparral Christimas Gift, A See: Yv'hirligigs Chaparral Prince, A See: Heart of the West Charleroi, The Renaissance at See: Roads of Destiny Cherchez La Femme See: Roads of Destiny Chord, The Missing See: Heart of the West Christmas by Injunction See: Heart of the West Christmas Gift, A Chaparral See: Whirligigs Christmas Stocking, Whistling Dick's See: Roads of Destiny Christmas Story, finished See: Rolling Stones An Un- church with an Overshot Wheel, The See: Sixes and Sevens Circle, Sisters of the Gcuden See: Four Million, The Circle, Squaring the See: Voice of the City, The Cities, The Pride of the .SV^; Sixes and Sevens City of Dreadful Night, The See: Voice of the Cit_\-, The City, The Defeat of the See: Voice of the City, The City, The Voice of the See: Voice of the City, The Clancy, Keogh and .S^^; Note under Cabbages and Kings Clarion Call, The See: Voice of the City, The Clock, The Caliph, Cupid and the See: Four Million, The Code, Calloway's See: Whirligigs Code, The Remnants of the See: Cabbages and Kings Color, A Little Local See: Whirligigs Comedy in Rubber, A See: Voice of the City, The Coming-out of Maggie, The See: Four Million, The Company 99, The Foreign Pol- icy of See: Trimmed Lamp, The Complete Life of John Hop- kins, The See: Voice of the City, The Compliments of the Season See: Strictly Business Coney, The Greater See: Sixes and Sevens 248 Conscience in Art See: Gentle Grafter, The Cop and the Anthem, The See: Four Million, The Cosmopolite in a Cafe, A See: Four Million, The Count and the Wedding Guest, The See: Trimmed Lamp, The Country of Elusion, The See: Trimmed Lamp, The Courier, By Sfe: Four Million, The Crosses, Hearts and See: Heart of the West Cupid A La Carte See: Heart of the West Cupid, and the Clock, Caiiph, Se:: Four Million, The Cupid's Exile Number Two Se.': Cabbages and Kings Curse, LordOakhurst's Sjc: Rolling Stones D Day Resurgent, The See: Strictly Business Day We Celebrate, The See: Sixes and Sevens Dhbut of Tildy, The Brief See: Four Million, The Di.cFivER, A Double-Dyed See: Roads of Destiny Defeat of the City, The See: Voice of the City, The DhMAND, Supply and See: Options Departmental Case, A See: Roads of Destiny Destiny, Roads of See: Roads of Destiny Diamond OF Kali, I'he See: Sixes and Sevens Dick's Christmas Stocking, Whistling See: F^oads of Destiny Dicky See: Cabbages and Kings Dinner At , A See: Rolling Stones Discounters of Money, The See: Roads of Destiny '■ Dixie, The Rose of" See: Options Dogman, Ulysses and the See: Sixes and Sevens Dollars, One Thousand See: Voice of the City, The Dollar's Worth, One Sec Whirligigs Doom, The Smocks of See: Voice of the City, The Doom, Fracked to — or Mystery of the Kue Peychaud See: Rolling Stones Door of Unre:t, The See: Sixes and Sevens Door, The Green See: Four A'iHion, The Door, The World and the See: Whirligigs Double-Dyed Decf-.iver, A See: Roads of Destiny THE De 249 Dougherty's Eye-opener See: Voice of the City, The Dreadful Night, The City of See: Voice of the City, The Dream, A Midsummer Knight's See: Trimmed Lamp, The Dream, The See: Rolling Stones Dress Parade, Lost on See: Four Million, The Dress, The Purple See: Trimmed Lamp, The Dry Valley Johnson, The In- dian Summer of See: Heart of the West Duel, The See Strictly Business Duplicity of Hargraves, The See: Sixes and Sevens Each According to His Ability, From See: Voice of the City, The Eagle, The Passing of Black See: Roads of Destiny East Side Tragedy, An: Guilty Party" See: Trimmed Lamp, The The Easter of the Soul, The See: Voice of the City, The Elevation, A Matter of Mean See: Whirligigs Elsie in New York See: Trimmed Lamp, The Elusion, The Country of See: Trimmed Lamp, The Emancipation of Billy, The ' See: Roads of Destiny Enchanted Kiss, The See: Roads of Destiny Enchanted Profile, The See: Roads of Destiny Error, A Technical See: Whirligigs Ethics of Pig, The See: Gentle Grafter, The Exact Science of Matrimony, The See: Gentle Grafter, The Exile Number Two, Cupid's See: Cabbages and Kings Extradited from Bohemia See: Voice of the City, The Eye-opener, Dougherty's See: Voice of the City, The Failure, The Hypotheses of See: \\hirligigs Feel Your Pulse, Let Me See: Sixes and Sevens Femme, Cherchez La See: Roads of Destinv Ferry of Unfulfilment, See: Trimmed Lamp, The The Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled See: Rolling Stones Fifth Wheel, The See: Strictly Business Fire, The Plutonian See: Voice of the City, The Flag Paramount, The See: Cabbages and Kings Fog in Santone, A See: Rolling Stones 230 FooL-KiLLER, The See: Voice of the City, The Foreign Policy of Comi'any 99. 1 HE See: Trimmed Lamp, The Fortune, Fickle, Gladys Hustled See: Rolling Stones OR How Four Million, I"he — Short Stories Conlenls: Tobin's Palm The Gift of the Magi A Cosmopolite in a Cafe Between Rounds The Skylight Room A Service of Love The Coming-Out of Maggie Man About 1 own The Cop and the Anthem An Adjustment of Nature Memoirs of a bellow Dog The Love-Philtre of Ike_\' Sclioenstein Mammon and the Archer Springtime a la Carte The Green Door From the Cabby's Seat An Unfinished Story The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock Sisters of the Golden Circle The Romance of a Busy Broker After Twenty Years Lost on Dress Parade B\ Courier The Furnished Room The Brief Debut of Tildy Four Roses, The — Verse See: Roses, Ruses and Romance in "Voice of the City" Fourth in Salvador, The See: Roads of Destiny " Fox-in-the-Morning" See: Cabbages and Kings Friend, Telemachus See: Heart of the West Friendly Call, The See: Rolling Stonas Friends in San Rosario See: Roads of Destiny From Each According to His Ability See: Voice of the City, The From the Cabby's Seat See: Four Million, The "Fruit, Little Si^eck in (jar- nered" See: Voice of the City, The Furnished Room, The See: Four Million, The Fury, Sound and — Dialogue See: Rolling Stones G Fruit, Lutle " Garnered Speck in" See: Voice of the City, The Gentle Grafter, The (Illus- trated) — Short Stories Contents: Tlie Octopus Marooned JetT Peters as a Personal Magnet Modern Rural Sports The Chair of Philanthromathematics The Hand That Riles the World The Exact Science of Matrimony A Midsummer Masquerade Sheaiing the Wolf Innocents of Broadway (Conscience in Art The Man Higher Up A Tempered Wind Hostages to Momus The Ethics of Pig Gentlemen, I'wo Thanksgiving Day See: Tritnmed Lamp, The Georgia's Ruling See: Whirligigs Ghost of a C:l\nci., The See: Sixes and Sevens Gift of the Magi, The See: Four Million, The "Girl" See: Whirligigs 2Si Girl and the Graft, The See: Strictly Business Girl a:;d the Hadit, The See: Strictly Business Gladys Hustled, How, or Fickle Fortui,'E See: Rolling Stones Gold That Glittered, The See: Strictly Business Golden Circle, Sisters of the See: Four Million, The Goodwin, Frank See: Note under Cabbages and Kings Graft, The Girl and the See: Strictly Business Graft, The Phonograi'H and THE See: Cabbages and Kings Grafter, The Gentle See: Gentle Grafter, The Greater Coney, The See: Sixes and Sevens Green Door, The See: Four Million, The Guardian of the Accolade, The See: Roads of Destiny Guest, The Count and the Wedding See: Trimmed Lamp, The "Guilty Party" — An East Side Tragedy, Ti:e See: Trimmed Lamp H Habit, The girl and the See: Strictly Business Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss, The See: Roads of Destiny Hand That Riles the World, The See: Gentle Grafter, The lT\ND3oox OF Hymen, The See: Heart of the West Har3inger, The See: Voice of the City, The Hargraves, The Duplicity of See: Sixes and Sevens Harlem Tragedy, A See: Trimmed Lamp, The Hash, Aristocracy Versus See: Rolling Stones Haughty, Seats of the See: Heart of the West Hayes, Jimmie — and Muriel See: Sixes and Sevens He Also Serves See: Options Head-Hunter, The See: Options Heart of the West — Short Stories Contents: Hearts and Crosses The Ransom of Mack Telemachus, Friend The Handbook of Hymen The Pimienta Pancakes Seats of the Haughty Hygeia at the Solito An Afternoon Miracle The Hi,:;her Abdication (".upid a la Carte The Caballcro's Way The Sphinx Apple The Alissing Chord A Call Loan The Princess and the Puma The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson (Christmas by Injunction A Chapirral Prince The Reformation of Calliope 252 HiARTb AND Crosses See: Heart of the West UhLIMNG THE OtHER FeLLOW See: Rolling Stones Hiding OF Black Bill. The See: Options Highball, The RuhaIyai of / Scotch See: Trimmed Lamp, The ' Hk.hhr Abdication, The See: Heart of the West Higher Pragmatism, The -SVt-. Options Higher Up, The Lad'i See: Sixes and Sevens Higher Up, The Man .SV^; Gentle Grafter, The Him \\ ho Waits, To See: Options 1 111, A Sacrifice See: Whirligigs Holding up a Train See: Sixes and Sevens Holiday, Blind Mans See: Whirligigs Homes, Suite — and Their Ro- mance See: Whirligigs Hygeia at the Solito See: Heart of the West Hymen, I"he Handbook of See: Heart of the West Hypotheses of Failure, The See: Whirligigs I '■ I Go TO Seek on Many Road^ ' — Verse — Heading of Roads of Destiny See: Roads of Destiny Ikey Schoenstein, The Love Philtre of See: Four Million, The Indian Summer of Dry \'allly Johnson, The See: Heart of the West Inc.redien I, I hh Third See: Options Injunction, Christmas by See: Heart of the West Innocents of Broadway See: Gentle Grafter, The Introduction to Rolling Stones, by H. P. Steger See: Rolling Stones Hopkins, The Complete Life of j^kf Peters as a Personal John See: Voice ©f the City. The Hostages to Mom us See: Gentle Grafter, The Hound, The Theory and ihi: See: Whirligigs low Gladys Husiijd, '■ Fickle Fortune" See: Rolling Stones OR Magnet See: Gentle Grafter, The Jeff Peters Stories The Contents of Tie Gentle Gr.ijter and also Cupid ^ la Carte (in Heart of the West) The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear (in Rolling Stones) Jimmie Hayes and Muriel See: Sixes and Sevens 253 John Hopkins, The Complhte Life of See: Voice of the City, The John Tom Little Bear, The Atavism of See: Rolling Stones * Johnny Atwood See: Note under Cabbages and Kings Johnson, The Indian Summer of Dry Valley See: Heart of the West June, October and See: Sixes and Sevens Jungle, Babes in the See: Strictly Business K Kali, The Diamond of See: Sixes and Sevens Keogh and Clancy See: Note under Cabbages and Kings Kin, Makes the Whole World See: Sixes and Sevens Kings, Cabbages and See: Cabbages and Kings Knight's Dream, A Midsummer See: Trimmed Lamp, The Lady Higher Up, The See: Sixes and Sevens Lamp, The Trimmed See: Trimmed Lamp, The Last Leaf, The See: Trimmed Lamp, The Last of the Troubadours, The See: Sixes and Sevens Law and Order See: Sixes and Sevens "Lazy Shepherds, See Your Lambkins" — David's Verse in Roads of Destiny See: Roads of Destin\ Leaf, The Last See: Trimmed Lamp, The Let Me Feel Your Pulse See: Sixes and Sevens Also issued separately as a small il- lustrated book. This story is largel>' based upon O. Henry's own ill- fated search for health. Letters from O. Henry See: Rolling Stones Two to Oilman Hall One to Mrs. Hall, a friend in North Carolina Three to Dr. W. P. Beall Four to David Harreil Parable Letter Two to his Daughter Margaret To J. O. H. Cosgrave One to "Col. Griffith" Four to Al. Jennings Two to H. P. Steger LicKPENNY Lover, A See: Voice of the City, The Life of John Hopkins, The Complete See: Voice of the City, The Life, The Whirligjg of See: Whirligigs Lights, According to Their See: Trimmed Lamp, The Little Bear, The Atavis.m of John Tom See: Rolling Stones Little Local Color, A See: Whirligigs "Little Speck in Garnered Fruit" See: Voice of the C~ity, The Loan, A Call See: Heart of the West 2 54 Loaves, Whches' See: Sixes and Sevens Local Color, A Little See: Whirligigs Locality — A geographical arrangement of practically all of the stories in the twelve volumes. Refer- ence to the hook in which the tale appears is given after each title or group of titles. Central America The Head-Hunter {In "Options") Phoebe The Fourth in Salvador Two Renegades {In "Roads of Destiny") The Day We Celebrate {In "Sixes and Sevens") England Lord Oakhurst's Curse {In "Rolling Stones") France Roads of Destiny {In "Roads of Destiny") Tracked to Doom (/« "Rolling Stones") Mexico Ht Also Serves (/« "Options") Kew York 'The Four Million" (Whole Volume) Innocents of Broadway A Tempered Wind {In " The Gentle Grafter") The Third Ingredient Schools and Schools Thimble. Thimble To Him Who Waits No Story The Higher Pragmatism Rus in Lrbe {In "Options") The Discounters of Money The Enchanted Profile {In "Roads of Dsitiny") The .Marionettes A Dinner at An L nfmished Christmas Story 1 he Unprofitable Servant {In "Rolling Stones"^, The Sleuths \\ ilclics' Loaves 1 he Pride of the Cities Llvsses and the Dognian The (Champion of the \\ eather Makes the W hole World Km At Arms with .Morpheus The (ihost of a Chance Let .Me Feel V'our Pulse The Adventures With Shamrock Jolncs The Lady Higher L'p 1 he Creatcr ('oney Transformation of Martin Burney The ("aliph and the Cad The Diamond of Kali {In "Sixes and Sevens") "Strictly Business." (All the stories in this volume, except "A Municipal Report," for which see The South under Tennessee) "The Trimmed Lamp." (Whole Vol- ume) "The Voice of the City." (Whole vol- ume) Calloway's Code "Girl" The Marry Month of May Sociology in Serge and Straw Suite Homes and 1 heir Romance A Sacrifice Hit The Song and the Sergeant A Newspaper Story Tommy's Burglar A Little Local Color {In "Whirligigs") Pennsylvania Conscience in Art (Pittsburgh) {In " Wbirligigs"'j South America "Cabbages and Kings." (Whole vol- ume) The World and the Door The Theory and the Hound A .Matter of Mean Llevation Supply and Demand {In "Options") Next to Reading Matter A Double-D\ed Deceiver On Behalf of the Management {In "Roads of Destiny") A Ruler of .Men Helping the Other Fellow {In "Rolling Stones") 25 :? The South — Alabama The Ransom of Red Chief {In " iVbirligigs") Georgia Hostages to Momus {In " The Gentle Grafter") "The Rose of Dixie" {In "Options") Kentucky A Blackjack Bargainer (/n "IVhirligigs") Shearing the Wolf The Ethics of Pig {_In "The Gentle Grafter") Louisiana The Renaissance at Charleroi Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking Cherchez la Femme {In 'Roads of Destiny") Blind Man's Holiday {In " Whirligigs"') Tennessee A Midsummer Masquerade {In " The Gentle Grafter") October and June (In "Sixes and Sevens") The Whirligig of Life {In " Whirligigs") Virginia Best Seller {In "Options") Washington The Hand that Riles the World {In " The Gentle Grafter") A Snapshot at the President {In "Rolling Stones") The Duplicity of Hargraves {In "Sixes and Sevens") Indefinite The Emancipation of Billy The Guardian of the Accolade ' {In "Roads of Destiny") The Church With an Overshot Wheel 1 he Door of Unrest {In "Sixes and Sevens") The West — /Iri'ona Christmas by Injunction {In "Heart of the West") The Roads We Take {In "Whirligigs") Arkansas Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet The Man Higher Up {In " The Gentle Grafter") A Retrieved Reformation {In "Roads of Destiny") Colorado The Ransom of Mack {In " The Heart of the West") The Friendly Call ("/« Rolling Stones") Illinois The Exact Science of Matrimony {In " The Gentle Grafter") Indiana Modern Rural Sports {In " The Gentle Grafter") Indian Territory New York by Campfire Light {In "Sixes and Sevens") A Technical Error {In "Whirligigs") Kansas The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear {In "Rolling Stones") Montana The Handbook of Hymen {In " The Heart of the West") New Mexico Telemachus Friend {In "Heart of the West") Ohio The Halberdier of the Little Rhcin- schloss {In "Roads of Destiny "i Oklahoma Cupid i la Carte {In "Heart of the West") I loldingUp a Train {In "Sixes and Sevens") 256 Texas The Octopus Marooned Hearts and C.rosses The Pimienta F^ancakes Seats of the Haughty Hygeia at the Solito An Afternoon Miracle The Higher Abdication The Clahallero's Way The Sphinx Apple The Missing Chord A Call Loan The Princess and the Puma The Indian Summer of Dry N'alley Johnson A Chaparral Prince The Reformation of Calliope (/m "Heart of the H'est") The Hiding'of Black Bill Buried 1 reasure The Moment of Victory A Poor Rule ("In Options") Art and the Broncos The Passing of Black Eagle Friends in San Rosario The Enchanted Kiss A Departmental Case The Lonesome Road (In "Roads oj Destiny") The Marquis and Miss Sally A Fog in Santone Tictocq Aristocracy versus Hash A Strange Story Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled An Apolog\ Bexar Script No. 2692 {In "Rolling Stones" \ The Last of the Troubadours Jimmie Hayes and Muriel Law and Order (In "Sixes and Sevens" > One Dollar's Worth A Chaparral Christmas Gift Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches Georgia's Ruling (In " ^Vhirligigs") Lonesome Road, The See: Roads of Destiny Lord Oakhurst's Curse See: Rolling Stones Lost Blend, The See: Trimmed Lamp, The Lost ON Dress Parade See: Four Million, The Lotus in the Bottle, The See: Cabbages and Kings Love, A Service of See: Four Million, The Love-philtre or I key Schoen- sthin. The See: Four Million, The Lover, A Lickpenny See: Voice of the City, The M Mack, The Ransom of See: Heart of the West Madame Bo-peep of the Ranches See: Whirligigs Madison Square Arabian Night, A See: Trimmed Lamp, The Maggie, The Coming-out of See: Four Million, The Magi, The Gift of the See: Four Million, The Magnet, Jeff Peters as a Per- sonal See: Gentle Grafter, The AL\KES THE Whole \\ orld Kin See: Sixes and Sevens AL\KiNG OF A New Yorker, Thk See: Trimmed Lamp, The Mammon and the Archer See: Four Million, The Man About I'own See: Four Million, The Man Higher Up, The See: Gentle Grafter, The Management, On Behalf of the See: Roads of Destiny Marionettes, The See: Rolling Stones 257 Marooned, The Octopus See: Gentle Grafter, The Marquis and Miss Sally, The See: Rolling Stones Marry Month of May, The See: Whirligigs Martin Burney, Transforma- tion OF See: Sixes and Sevens Masquerade, A Midsummer See: Gentle Grafter, The Masters of Arts See: Cabbages and Kings Matrimony, The Exact Science OF See: Gentle Grafter, The Matter of Mean Elevation, A See: Whirligigs May, The Marry Month of See: Whirligigs Maze, Money See: Cabbages and Kings Mean Elevation, A Matter of See: Whirligigs Memento, The See: Voice of the Cit}', The Memoirs of a Yellow Dog See: Four Million, The Midsummer Knight's Dream, A See: Trimmed Lamp, The Midsummer Masquerade, A See: Gentle Grafter, The Mignot, Unpublished Poems of David See: Roads of Destiny, Chap. I. Million, The Four See: Four Million, The Miracle, An Aftliinoon See: Heart of the West Miss Sally, The Marquis and See: Rolling Stones Missing Chord, The See: Heart of the West Modern Rural Sports See: Gentle Grafter, The Moment of Victory, The See: Options MoMus, Hostages to See: Gentle Grafter, The Money Maze See: Cabbages and Kings Money, The Discounters of See: Roads of Destiny Month of May, The Marry See: Whirligigs Morning, Fox in the See: Cabbages and Kings Morpheus, At Arms with See: Sixes and Sevens Municipal Report, A See: Strictly Business Muriel, Jimmie Hayes and See: Sixes and Sevens Mystery of the Rue De Pey- chaud. The, or Tracked to Doom See: Rolling Stones N Nature, An Adjustment of See: Four Million, The Nemesis and the Candy Man See: Voice of the City, The New Arabia, A Night in See: Strictly Business New Orleans, Stories of .S^^; Locality. S. V The South 258 New York by Campfire Light See: Sixes and Sevens New York, Elsie in See: Trimmed Lamp, The New York, Stories of See: Locality New Yorker, The Making of A See: Trimmed Lamp, The Newspaper Story, A See: Whirligigs "Next to Reading Matter" See: Roads of Destiny Night in New Arabia, A See: Strictly Business Night, The City of Dreadful See: Voice of the City, The No Story See: Options No. 2692, Bexar Script See: Rolling Stones NoiR, Rouge et See: Cabbages and Kings Number Two, Cupid's Exile See: Cabbages and Kings o O. Henry, Poem by James Whit- comb Riley See: Rolling Stones October and June See: Sixes and Sevens Octopus Marooned, The See: Gentle Grafter, The On Behalf of the Manage- ment See: Roads of Destiny One Dollar's Worth See: Whirligigs "One Rose I Twined Within Your Hair" First line of Poem entitled, "The Four Roses" in Koses, Ku^cs and Honinnce, a story in "Ihe Voiceof the City" One Thousand Dollars See: Voice of the City, The Options — Short Stories Contents "The Rose of Dixie" The Third Ingredient The Hiding of Black Bill Schools and Schools Thimble, Thimble Supply and Demand Buried Treasure To Him Who Waits He Also Serves 1 he iMoment of Victory The Head-Hunter No Story The Higher Pragmatism Bestseller Rus in Urbe A Poor Rule Order, Law and See: Sixes and Sevens O'Roon, The Badge of Police- man See: Trimmed Lamp, The Other Fellow, Helping The See: Rolling Stones Overshot Wheel, The Church WITH AN See: Sixes and Sevens Palm, The Shamrock and the See: Cabbages and Kings Palm, Tobin's See: Four .Willion, The Pancakes, Ihe Pimienta See: Heart of the West 259 Paramount, The Flag See: Cabbages and Kings Passing of Black Eagle, The See: Roads of Destiny Past One at Rodney's See: Strictly Business Peace, The Robe of See: Strictly Business Peasant, The Poet and the See: Strictly Business Pendulum, The See: Trimmed Lamp, The Personal Magnet, Jeff Peters AS A See: Gentle Grafter, The Peters, Jeff See: Jeff Peters Philanthromathematics, The Chair of See: Gentle Grafter, The Philistine in Bohemia, A See: Voice of the City, The Phoebe See: Roads of Destiny Phonograph and the Graft, The See: Cabbages and Kings Pig, The Ethics of 5^^; Gentle Grafter, The PiMiENTA Pancakes, The See: Heart of the West Play, The Thing's the See: Strictly Business Plunkville Patriot, Th^ Humorous page in "The Rolling Stone." For photographs of this page see Rolling Stones Poems by O. Henry See: Trolling Stones Titles: The Pewee Nothing to Say The Murderer Some Postscripts Two Portraits A Contribution The Old Farm \'anity The Lullaby Boy Chanson de Boheme Hard to Forget Drop a Tear in This Slot Tamales Poet and the Peasant, The See: Strictly Business Policeman O'Roon, The Badge OF See: Trimmed Lamp, The Policy of Company 99, The Foreign See: Trimmed Lamp, The Political Intrigue, A Suc- cessful See: Tictocq, in Rolling Stones Poor Rule, A See: Options Porter Family, Record of Births and Deaths See: Rolling Stones Portraits of O. Henry at \'ar- lous Ages See: Rolling Stones Pragmatism, The Higher See: Options President, A Snapshot at the See: Rolling Stones Pride of the Cities, The See: Sixes and Sevens Prince, A Chaparral See: Heart of the West Plutonian Firr, The See: Voice of the City.The Princess and the Puma, The See: Heart of the West 260 Prisoner of ZembLA, The See: Rolling Stones Proem, The: hy the Carpenter See: Cabbages and Kings Profile, The Enchanted See: Roads of Destiny Proof OF the Pudding See: Strictly Business Psyche and the Pskyscraper See: Strictl> Business Pudding, Proof of the See: Strictly Business Pulse, Let Me Feel Your See: Sixes and Sevens Puma, The Princess and the See: Heart of the West Purple Dress, The See: Trimmed Lamp, The Quantity, The Unknown See: Strictly Business Queries and Answers See: Rolling Stones Ramble in Aphasia, A See: Strictly Business Ranches, Madame Bo-peep of the See: Whirligigs Ransom of Mack, The See: Heart of the West Rathskeller and the Rose, the See: Voice of the City, The "Reading Matter, Next to" See: Roads of Destiny Recalls, Two See: Cabbages and Kings Red Chief, The Ransom of See: \\h]T\\^:,\^:,•< Reformation, A Ki irii ved Dramatized as "Alias Jimmy Valen- tine" See: Roads of Destiny Reformation of Calliope, The See: Heart of the West Remnants of the Code, The See: Cabbages and Kings Renaissance AT Charleroi. The See: Roads of Destiny Renegades, Two See: Roads of Destiny Report, A Municipal See: Strictly Business Reproductions of Manuscript and Pages from the Plunk- viLLE Patriot as Printed by O. Henry in The Rolling Stone See: Rolling Stones Resurgent, The Day See: Strictly Business Retrieved Reformation, A See: Roads of Destiny Rheinschloss, The Halberdier of the Little See: Roads of Destiny Rilis the World, The Hand '1 hat See: Gentle Grafter, The Road, The Lonesome See: Roa,ds of Destiny Roads of Destiny — Short Stor- ies Contents: Roads of Destiny The Guardian of the Accolade The Discounters of .Money The Knchanted Profile "Next to Reading Matter" Art and the Bronco 261 Phoebe A Double-Dyed Deceiver The Passing of Black Eagle A Retrieved Reformation Cherchez la Femme Friends in San Rosario The Fourth in Salvador The Emancipation of Billy] The Enchanted Kiss A Departmental Case The Renaissance at Charleroi On Behalf of the Management Whistling Dick's Christmas Stock- ing The Halberdier of the Little Rhem- schloss Two Renegades The Lonesome Road Roads We Take, The See: Whirligigs Robe of Peace, The See: Strictly Business Rolling Stone, The — O. Henry's Newspaper Pub- lished IN Austin, Texas Extracts Tictocq Tracked to Doom, or The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud A Snapshot at the President Aristocracy versus Hash The Prisoner of Zembla Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled An Apology Bexar Script No. 2692 Queries and Answers All of the above ivill be found in the vol- ume entitled Rolling Stones Rolling Stones (illustrated) Stories and Sketches and Poems col- lected from various magazines, from "The Rolling Stone," O. Henry's Texas newspaper, and from hitherto unpublished manuscripts Contents Portrait of O. Henry O. Henry — Poem by James Whit- comb Riley Introduction^by H. P. Steger Records of Births and Deaths in the Porter Family Bible The Dream — Unfinished. The last work of O. Henry A Ruler of Men The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear Helping the (Jther Fellow The Marionettes The Marquis and Miss Sally 262 A Fog in Santone The Friendly Call A Dinner at Sound and Fury — Dialogue Tictocq (from "The Rolling Stone"" Tracked to Doom, or the Myster>' of the Rue de Pe\chaud (from "The Rolling Stone") A Snapshot at the President (Edi- torial in "The Rolling Stone") An Unfinished Christmas Story The Unprofitable Servant — Unfin- ished Aristocrac}' versus Hash (from "The Rolling Stone") The Prisoner of Zembla (from "The Rolling Stone") A Strange Story (from "The Rolling Stone") Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled (from "The Rolling Stone") An Apology (from "The Rolling Stone") Lord Oakhurst's Curse (sent in a letter to Dr. Beall, Greensboro, N. C.,in 1883 Bexar Script No. 2692 (from "The Roiling Stone") Queries and Answers (from "The Rolling Stone") Poems The Pewee Nothing to Say The .Murderer Some Postscripts Two Portraits A Contribution The Old Farm Vanity The Lullaby Boy Chanson de Boheme Hard to Forget Drop a Tear in This Slot Tamales Letters To .Mr. Oilman Hall of Everybody's Magazine To Mrs. Hall of North Carolina, an early letter To Dr. W. P. Be.Tll, an old friend in North C^arolina — a humorous letter about a pla\' he has written Two more letters to Dr. Beall Four Letters to Dave — .Mr. David Harrel! Parable Letter Two Letters to His Daughter Mar- garet To Mr. Cosgrove of Everybody's Magazine To Mr. Oilman Hall — about his approaching marriage to Miss Sara S. C. l.indsav Coleman, of Asheville, To Colonel CirilVith Two Letters to Mr. Al. JcnninK*! of Oklahoma, who in his youth held up trains To Mr. H. P. Ste^er— about the title of one of his stories To Mr. Steger — unfinished letter about a novel he wanted to write, i wo letters to .Mr. .M. Jennings about the material for "Holding up a Train" (see Sixes and Sevens) which Mr. Jennings had supplied from personal e.xperience. Cartoons Original by O. Henry — see Sketches facing pages 29, 48, 49, 64, 6,, 80, 81, 9b, 97, 249 and inserts be- tween pages 232 and 233. Photographs Last Photograph. See frontispiece At the ag