Kipling’s Cabled Poetry

Kipling’s Cabled Poetry
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Chicago Chronicle: If there is anything
in this world that is not worth cabling
from England to America it Is the
“poetry” of Rudyard Kipling By long ap-
plication one may learn that the subject
of his last effort is the Boer war, but not
what his opinion in regard to it is If
Kipling could write poetry at all he might
be called a poet of the unintelligible like
Browning, but as he is neither poetical nor
Intelligible the only single word in English
which exactly expresses the character of
his alleged verses is “dot” Why anybody
should go to the expense of cabling it
across the ocean-uniess Kipling himself hore the expense is a mystery