DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. (Published, Lahore, 1886; second and third editions, Lahore; fourth edition, Calcutta ; subsequent editions, Calcutta and London; pirated editions, New York and elsewhere. See Bibliography.) A volume of local satires, parodies, and society verse.

Since

Mr. Kipling has not included the book among his collected works, the poems are not in this primer given separate consideration under their titles.' As a matter of fact, they are hardly worth it. The best of them, in our judgment, are entitled, The Story of Uriah, The Galley Slave, and What the People Said. The full list of poems in the first Calcutta edition (1890) follows: Departmental Ditties. Prelude ("I have eaten your bread and salt'); General Summary; Army Headquarters; Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink; A Legend of the Foreign Office; The Story of Uriah; The Post that Fitted; Public Waste; Delilah; What Happened; Pink Dominoes; The Man who could Write; Municipal; A Code of Morals; The Last Department. Other Verses. To the Unknown Goddess; The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin; La Nuit Blanche; My Rival; The Lovers' Litany; A Ballad of Burial; Divided Destinies; The Masque of Plenty; The Mare's Nest; Possibilities; Christmas in India; Pagett, M.P.; The Song of the Women; A Ballade of Jakko Hill; The Plea of the Simla Dancers; The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House; As the Bell Clinks ; Certain Maxims of Hafiz; The Grave of the Hundred Head; The

'As the Kipling Primer goes to press we learn that an authorized edition of the Ditties is just issued by Mr. Kipling's New York publishers. This fact does not, however, alter our conviction that these juvenile verses hardly deserve separate consideration.

Moon of Other Days; The Overland Mail ; What the People Said; The Undertaker's Horse; The Fall of Jock Gillespie; An Old Song; Arithmetic on the Frontier ; One Viceroy Resigns; The Betrothed; A Tale of Two Cities; Griffin's Debt; In Spring Time; Two Months: (1) In June, (2) In September; The Galley Slave; L'Envoi.

DERELICT, THE. (The Seven Seas.) — The song of ship, wrecked and abandoned at sea, mourning her lost estate.

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DESTROYERS, THE. A poem of nine double quatrains contributed to McClure's for May, 1898. This spirited description of torpedoes as used in modern warfare opens: "The strength of twice three thousand horse That seek the single goal."

Possibly the most striking lines are :

"The brides of death that wait the groom
The choosers of the slain."

DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA, THE. (Day's Work.) – A British whaling-steamer, the “ Haliotis," won a bad reputation by piratical and poaching expeditions, and was finally captured in tropical waters, her holds filled with stolen pearls. A foreign man-of-war signalled her to "heave to." Its order being disobeyed, it fired a shot which disabled her engines. The "Haliotis towed to the nearest port, and the crew, forbidden access to their consul, were marched into the back country and there impressed into the army. The British Government demanded apologies and reparation. The men were grudgingly released and supplied with provisions, but were at last removed to the " Haliotis," which rode at anchor in

was then

the harbor, stripped of everything except its wrecked engines. Wardrop, the Scotch engineer, was equal to the exigency. How he patched up the machinery with the aid of his naked, half-starved associates, how the boat made her escape under her own steam, and how she met her final fate these facts are related with great skill.

DISTURBER OF TRAFFIC, THE. (Many Inventions.) – A powerful study of the growth of madness in the brain of one Dowse, a lonely lighthouse keeper, stationed at Flores Strait in the Java seas. Hardly less remarkable is the rapidly-sketched portrait of Challong, the "sea-gypsy Caliban with “ webby-foot-hands," Dowse's sole companion. The story is concerned with the wild conduct into which Dowse was led by his insanity, with his rescue, and with his subsequent cure.

"In The Disturber of Traffic' Mr. Kipling gives us one of those inimitable sketches of blended farce and pathos that he alone seems able to contrive. Academy.

DOVE OF DACCA, THE. (Ballads.) An Indian Rajah, on setting forth to battle, left word that if a

"dove

of flight" he took with him should return, it might be taken as a sign that he was defeated, and thereupon his palace should be burned, lest his foemen take it as a spoil of war. He was victorious, but the homesick dove, escaping, flew home before he could overtake it. He found his orders carried out. His palace was in ashes.

DRAY WARA Yow DEE. (In Black and White.) ·· A native, having found his wife unfaithful, has killed her, and is devoting the rest of his life to the capture and punishment of the guilty lover. The man is a devout Mussul

man, but regards the fulfilment of his vengeance as a religious duty. "When I have accomplished the matter and my honor is made clean I shall return thanks unto God, the Holder of the Scale of the Law, and I shall sleep."

DREAM OF DUNCAN PARRENNESS, THE. (Life's Handicap.)—A dissolute youth dreams that a man enters his chamber and replies, when ordered angrily to leave, that a youth of the other's kidney need fear neither man nor devil, and that as brave a fellow was like enough to become Governor-General. But for all this, he adds, the young man must pay the price. As he turns his eyes on Duncan, the lad is horrified to discover that this man of the evil face is The tormentor then demands in turn the youth's trust in man, faith in woman, and boy's soul and conscience. In return he leaves something in Duncan's hand. At dawn the boy looks at the gift. It is a morsel of dry bread.

himself grown older.

DRUMS OF THE FORE AND AFT, THE. (Wee Willie Winkie.) — A story of the heroism of two fourteenyear-old boys. One was a London gutter-snipe, neither could give much account of his parentage, both fought each other and all comers, swore, smoked, and drank. But when their regiment, made up of raw recruits, were for the first time in action, and had broken and fled before the longknifed Afghans, it was the two drummer-boys who marched side by side straight into the enemy's front, urging forward their cowardly comrades to the tune of the " British Grenadier."

The boys dropped at the first volley, but the English rallied and carried the day.

"The Drums of the Fore and Aft' is one of those performances which are apt to reduce criticism to the

mere tribute of a respectful admiration. It is absolutely and thoroughly well done." Francis Adams in Fortnightly.

By far the most powerful and ingenious story which Mr. Kipling has yet dedicated to a study of childhood.” Edmund Gosse, Century, 1891.

"The Drums of the Fore and Aft' is an epic which has seized upon every man from the age of ten upwards.” Blackwoods.

'EATHEN, THE. (The Seven Seas.) - A barrack-room ballad.

EDUCATION OF OTIS YEERE, THE. (Under the Deodars.) This tale has for its motive the failure of a platonic friendship. Mrs. Hauksbee attempts to act the rôle of "guide, philosopher, and friend" toward Otis Yeere, a thoroughly honest but commonplace and discouraged man. Her purpose is only half selfish. She desires to draw the man out of himself, to inspire in him new confiIdence in his abilities and new interest in life. He repays her by falling madly in love. When she repulses his advances angrily, he is completely crushed.

"Mrs. Hauksbee and Mrs. Mallowe are neither edifying nor - shall we venture to breathe the heresy ? amusing companions. Their cynicism palls upon us, and their occasional lapses into womanliness fail to be convincing. The Education of Otis Yeere' and 'A Second Rate Woman' are clever and caustic enough, no doubt, but they leave a disagreeable taste in the mouth." Athenæum.

ENGLISH FLAG, The. (Ballads.)

In reply to the

question, "What is the Flag of England?

Winds of the

World, declare!". - the North, South, East, and West