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tions are retained among the titles of this latest edition, and the author has in general followed the arrangement of the earlier volumes, on which this handbook is based, rather than the arrangement of the Outward Bound edition.

JULY 5, 1899.

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A Kipling Primer

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CHAPTER ONE

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

His

1. BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. Rudyard Kipling was born Dec. 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. father's ancestors were English and Dutch; his mother's English, Scotch, and Irish. Both his grandfathers were Wesleyan ministers.

Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling, was born in Yorkshire, and passed the early years of his manhood in the Burslem (Staffordshire) potteries as a modeller and designer. On leaving the potteries he worked for a time in a sculptor's studio, and finally received an appointment on the staff of the executive art department of the South Kensington Museum. In 1865 he was appointed Professor of Architectural Sculpture in the School of Art at Bombay. After having been engaged for several years in making casts of the mythological sculpture of the Rock Cut Temples in the central provinces,

he was appointed curator of the Government Museum at Lahore. Mr. Kipling is said to have done more than any other man toward preserving the native art of India.

The poet's father was more, however, than a mere artist, in the narrower sense. His scholarly and literary aptitudes are shown in Beast and Man in India, 1891, a book which brought him wide and well-deserved recognition. Regarding his personality, Mr. E. Kay Robinson, who knew the family intimately at Lahore, has this testimony: "John Lockwood Kipling, the father, a rare, genial soul, with happy artistic instincts, a polished literary style, and a generous, cynical sense of humor, was, without exception, the most delightful companion I had ever met."

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Rudyard's mother was a Miss Alice Macdonald, daughter of the Methodist preacher at Endon, Staffordshire, and a young woman of great beauty. She was one of three sisters who were noted for their exceptional culture and talents. Both of the others married distinguished English artists, one being the wife of Sir Edward J. Poynter, president of the Royal Academy, and the other the wife of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Mr. Robinson has written. also of Mrs. Kipling: "Mrs. Kipling, the mother, preserved all the graces of youth, and had a sprightly,

1 McClure's Magazine, July, 1896. See also Boston Transcript, March 2, 1899, and Congregationalist, March 16, 1899.

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