Show NOBEL PRIZE FOR KIPLING It Is a pleasure to know that Kipling Kipling Kip Kip- ling has bas received the tho Nobel prize for literature It fixes the recognition of or his generation It expresses the estimate estimate es es- es of or scholars and of readers It means vast vastly more than to bo be made I laureate for this of the tho poet for laureate wearer Nobel prize is Alfred Austins Austin's master and would be his teacher teacher could could that mild little man learn I Kipling has given plenty of ot reason for the recognition There is scarcely scarcely scarce scarce- i ly h an emotion of tho the human he heart rt ho hohas hohas has not expressed In our language nothing since the Psalms has so closely closely close close- ly 1 touched the universal And nothing nothing noth noth- ing In any tongue sweeps through all nIl climes and all enterprise and all aspiration aspiration as as- ns-I ns as does Kipling ringing Kipling ringing i true on every note You get the cold seas In Bolivar and the sultry sun In Young English I Soldier You get mechanism in The Da Days Day's s Work Wor Work and thrilling soul up lifting Inspiration In The Recession Recession- al There Is bare human Impulse in I Mandalay with its Ship me somewhere some somewhere some where east of or Suez Suez and there thero Is an ane anC e C everlasting gospel in I There Thero is all the Ole zest and spirit and mystery of a boy In The Jungle Book nook and there Is patriotic warning and political good counsel In The Truce of the Bear i iHo Ho who has bas not read Kipling 1 missed misses much of ot the rich treasure of his age He who has read It well Is a wiser man and a better informed and more safe citizen It is good to know they have bestowed bestowed bestowed be be- stowed the Nobel prize upon him bim |