Rudyard Kipling
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Excerpt from Thro' the Year With Kipling: Being a Year-Book of Selections From the Earlier Works of Mr. Rudyard Kipling; With Introduction and Bibliog
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raphy Robinson, formerly editor of the Gazette, wrote re garding him in meclure' s Magazine for July, 1896 My experience of him as a newspaper hack suggests, however, that if you want to find a man who will cheerqy do the ofice work of three men, you should catch a young genius. Like a blood horse between the shafts of a coal wagon, he may go near to bursting his heart in the effort, but he '11 drag that wagon along as it ought to go. The amount of 'stufi that Kipling got through in the day was indeed wonderful: and though I had more or less satisfactory assistants after he left, and the stafi' grew with the paper's prosperity, I am sure that more solid work was done in that office when Kipling and I worked together than ever before or after. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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