In Defense of Kipling

In Defense of Kipling

Harold Orel, in The South Atlantic Quarterly (Spring 1982), Duke University Press, P.O. Box 6697, College Station, Durham, N.C. 27708.
More than 200 Kiplingisms pepper the third edition of the Oxford Dic- tionary of Quotations ("the white man's burden"; "I've taken my fun where I found it"; "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke"). And Rudyard Kipling's fiction-The Light That Failed, Cap- tains Courageous, Kim, and much more-still sells briskly in America,...

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