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Show KIPLXNO AT FORTY. j Rudyard Kipling, who spent his 40th birthday en route to South Africa, Is Just the sort of man to subscribe to the O3-lerlan O3-lerlan doctrine of "too old at 40." His, pen works slower than It did, but, then, an author who commanded a shilling a. word for his 1 all road story, "No. 007.", can afford to lie fallow at times. Those who are not admirers, meanwhile, may; amuse themselves with examples of the tripping of Kipling, for even his passion-! ate devotion to detail has not saved him from the error of making a lance cor-; poral wear a sash, or of bringing flying fishes a hundred miles across country to the "old Moulmeln pagoda." But,Kip-l ling does not mind.' As he once said: "I have been called a poet and other names I don't like, but the one thing that I am really proud of is that I edited a paper for forty-eight hours and It didn't stop." Pall Mall Gasette. .1 |