Show ti iL The IThe attention ot of prominent critics of the he t country la Is occupied chiefly at pres present ent c ot With poems of patriotism p The llIo January number ot of the Out look ouk l has the he following to say on Kip ling h ug 01 a a Poet of at It 1 It Interesting to nto In p history the difficulty ot of Ing I ng the tho rank and value alu or of a Illece ot of l wb when n It comes warm tram from the tho Imagination of the writer It If were to give glo the world to day d ay those superb Passages on England which may muy be regarded ed as the high water mark ot of noble expression or of the tho passion ot f patriotism there would be hose t who would urge that the cia elo quenco Quence of these thelle splendid apostrophes walt timely rather than enduring antI and that they were calculated to catch the eye or of the vUlgar rather than the tho Ion of the cultivated Mr Is now going through the tho process of being as regards the I find and merits or of his hi verse erse which has be Inspired by recent I events There Thero are many who think ho has given the tho world nothing fresher stronger or snore origInal In conception or decisIve In utterance than the poems called forth during the last two or three years by contemporary public conditions rho first of these was the which Impressed most who rend read It ns as a true Insight Into the spiritual significance cance of at the lisa Jubilee celebration but which n a good many people with dr at their Instantly charged as barbaric tIr Ir Hurrell who Is usually as sane sallE as he Iy I reels fresh and entertaining has re ia recently questioned the quality ot of pa which has hns found such vigor rigor vigorous Otis ous Utterances lii In three or four more recent Poems from Mr hands and declared that he was not ready to believe bellevo that muse really represented In dignity or In foolIng tho ho heartfelt emotions or of n a great people peopleS S S S I Tho Th poems to which he that on edl had n a certain touch ot of almost brutal s but the great plain plainness plainness ness or of speech Is very dir brent from vulgarity Mr Kipling interprets through the imagination what may ho bo called the executive side ot of the I English spirit lie He Is II n a poet of the lie Englishman In M ac tion That which touches his station the world over Is the spectacle ot of man at work under all conditions and wherever he finds courage endur once and capacity ho he Is moved by them even een when they are allied with a good deal of personal coarseness and vulgarity II It Is because he loves loos life with such sucha n a Intensity that Mr Kipling has baa awakened so un an Inter interest st In InI I CL generation which has listened main I ly for tor the last twenty years to echoes In verse ene and has rarely heard a hu human man Inan voice sounding II a clear original and genuine note I Patriotism Is essentially II a concrete qualIty and who have havo Il detached I themselves ves from the national move mont and hold with that va pa Is n a vice will probably find an any frank Crank expression of It In the speech ot of men ot or elementary habit and con coner conversation er atlon repellent but It Is to bo be seriously questIoned whether the tho coarse and frank man who Is ready to do something for tor IsIs his country even though It may Involve the sacrifice of his life does not give his fellows something bet and more real than the tho refined and cultivated man who stands at II a die lance tunce gathers hia rob robes around him and refuses to bo be defiled by the tOul ble bla contact with the coarse things of ci life lICe There are phases or of poeticaL ox ex as there are arc degrees of poet poetical cal elevation and depths or of poetic In Insight Insight sight to which tir Kipling has not yet et attained but the ha obvious reality ot of his hi work its Ita telling citing directness and con can concrete crete force torce ought not to be mistaken for vulgarity A hundred years hence his patriotic poems It If they are read at atall nil all will probablY be tree Cree tram from all any SUS of coarseness I I Mr Kipling has not It Is true the th fineness ut of reeling feeling always char characterized Lowell but there were many who thou thought ht the tho Papers un undignified undignified dignified as a 0 form of argument for tor hu human human man rights and unworthy a 0 poet ot of po position and reputation were S some who thought the papers r because they used the speech ot of var plain people It Is evident now that the Papers are aro not only S from vuLgarity but are probably tho th I must most original contribution made mado b blowell by I lowell to American literature A gen which is 18 hungerIng and thirst thirstIng mit Ing for Cur poetry which Issues out ot of the deep springs ot of human In of that which Is born In graceful fancy ought not to substitute fastidiousness for or taste nor the pur purely ly ana or of the man lUan who believes neither In himself nor his fellows lot tor that Insight which Is born or of a tin or of the essential dignity ot of human L nature and the tho essential worth of hUe hu hUeman human man effort I I In Colliers Weekly Edgar delivers himself In this Soon there will be e Il a chance chanco for tor Mr KIplIng to write another monitory Re to his his beloved Tomm Tommy Atkins has come home limp and JIlle and spItting blood Oh liberty said loor Madame noland what crimes are committed In thy name But Dut the Duke ot of Wellington himself It I mistake not declared that patriotism wai vai the last refuge or of Well the duke duko was no doubt In a bad temper when he delly ered this cynical epigram One thing thiN Is sure lure he never saw In all his cam campaigne greater heroism more unselfish more superb risking or of life lite amid showers hurricanes hurrIcane tornadoes of bullets than this present war has hns evinced The Tue sudden making or of splendid did names Is one ot of lines But Dut again and a we hear of British their lives away like the burned stump ot of a c cigarette and not only doln doing that but helping with glad hands 1 a fallen brother before their own doom sped through lung heart or brain Those who claim that list cause Is un unfair unfair fair must at mast grant that eer every everyman man ot of her troops Is today tOllay like one who ho loath his hta quarrel Just |