Abaft the Funnel

The measure of a man's popularity is not always or indeed seldom the measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in more enduring form, catering to the enthusiasm of his readers in his maturer years, there is always a suspicion that his venture is purely a commercial one, without literary justification.

Fortunately these thirty-one stories of Mr. Kipling's form their own best excuse for this, their first appearance together in book form. Not ...