"Burdens and Songs: The Anglo-American Rudyard Kipling" by
Christopher Kitchens, in Grand Street (Spring 1990), 50 River- side Dr., New York, N.Y. 10024.
Take up the White Man's burden- wrote his famous poem for an American Send forth the best ye breed- audience, and it was well received. As Go bind your sons to exile soon as the poem was finished he rushed it To serve your captives' need, off to his friend, Governor Theodore Roo- sevelt of New York, with the hope that it These opening...