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Show Why Kipling Resigned. j Mr. Rudynrd Kipling's resignation from the Society of Authors (not to say his parting gift of $500 to the pension pen-sion fund) raises a question In which the rending public Is bound to find ' Interest. The society, by a very largo vote, has decided that the production i of so many chnrlty gift-books has trcs-1 passed !bn the nlways-great-to-n-fault generosity of authors; nnd that In fu-J tnro the society, so as to fulfill Its office of-fice of defending tho rights of writers, shall have a sny In tho matter when further gift-books nre proposed. Mr. Kipling's nttltudo Is that, while ho i himself holds no brief for charity gift-books, gift-books, he declines to hand over to n ' committee hla own right as to what ho shall or shall not do with his own work. London Chronicle. |
