Rudyard Kipling, Author, Robert Andrew Parker, Illustrator Gulliver Books $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200456-9 Parker's paintings elegantly interpret the British Cockney soldier's eulogy to Gunga Din.

This splendid continuous fertility of English genius, this unbroken poetic expression of English character and life from Chaucer to Rudyard ... distinguished Mr. Kipling's stories were not lacking ...

Now no one—unless Rudyard Kipling himself—is less tempted than ... One is that he writes short stories, and short stories are not yet as dignified as novels—unless the writer be Maupassant.

Jan Montefiore, Jan Montefiore teaches English Literature at the University of Kent. This book argues that Kipling's writings, at once Victorian conservative and modernist subversive, preaching ...