Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1914 — Twilight of Mr. Kipling. [ARTICLE]

Twilight of Mr. Kipling.

Poor Mr. Rudyard Kipling has for many years now been unable to talk politics without abandoning good manners and common sense in quite a singular degree. The tendency has become a sort of disease with him; and, therefore, speeches such as that which he delivered last Saturday at Tunbridge Wells cannot surprise us or make us indignant, as they would do if delivered by a responsible person. We remember that in the far away days when he was a great creative writer he produced works of genius for which we were all grateful; and the splendor of their precocious dawn has not been canceled, though its promise has neves, been fulfilled. But genius is too wayward a thing for promise or prophecy, and the map of genius has burdens laid on him which others can but dimly diWne. —London Chronicle.