Major Edwards High School - Mesa Yearbook (West Boylston, MA)

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THE MAN jMULVAMEY In a recent article in Haroer’s Magazine, the writer tells us that no English author of our time has been so widely known, or made more financial profit by the mere sale of his books to the public, than Rudyard Kipling, the man who nude ■ u : - ‘ A.nd yet, no English critic has ever said the rignt tamp shout him the greatest master of English prose oj. our ime, fen t-i ueople who presumably were best qualified to appreciate his merit, steadily failed to do so. Perhans the most original genius among English- ' ”rit ing novelists of the later nineteenth century, Kipling enjoyec extra- ordinary and world-wide popularity for years. Ho represented admirably certain phases of the spirit oJ his ago ana o.t -ne Anglo-Saxon race. ' Vigor , audacity, and efficiency are the virtues that most appealed to him, and tney char a c t orisec, ms own thought to a remarkable degree. A master of languors, ho ranges from the brutal speech of the barracks to a diction Uut is noble and majestic. Born in India, of English parentage, in 1865, at the age of five he was brought to England, nd, eight years later, entered college in Devonshire. While there, ho edited the Ccl...o; Chronicle for which he v r rote both pros .; and vorse. on ni.-. school life, he drew freely for the incidents related in his oo . entitled ” Stalky Co.”, which appeared in 189 Retur in oo India at- the age of seventeen, he was on the editorial otff of several par er s to which he contributed sketches and satiric- 1 verses . Mulvaney appears, was His book, ” Soldiers Three”, in which the character of v rit ten in 1889. Having now become well- Sown in India, he visited England and the United States in search of a publisher, but foiled at first. In 1890, on revumxng o London he suddenly found himself famous. While on a tour of the United States, he married a Vermont sirl, the sister of a literary friend, and, for the next i our years, their home was in this country. His two dam-brers wore