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HALLIWELL'S ILLUMINATED STAR MAP, with clockwork attachment, giving apparent motion of heavens, boxed, complete with clamps for binnacle, 36 inch size, only £2. 2. 0. (Invaluable for night work.) With A.B.0. certificate, £3. 10s. Od. Zalinski's Standard Works: PASSES OF THE HIMALAYAS, 55. The four boxed, limp cloth, with GRAY'S AIR CURRENTS IN MOUN- MR. KIPLING AS A WRITER OF ADVERTISEMENTS Judged along purely commercial lines. the Kipling popularity in this country was at its ebb about two years ago. During the last twelve or eighteen months there has been a marked revival of interest in his work-an appreciable demand for his books old and new. It is in the nature of irony that of all his books, Stalky and Company, which Kipling himself likes least of all, and which he believes to be his poorest work, is among all the old books the one which enjoys the steadiest sale. A peculiarity of Mr. Kipling as a selling author is that no edition of his books seems to interfere with the prosperity of any other edition. The latest work of Mr. Kipling to appear in book form is With the Night Mail, which was first printed three or four years ago as a magazine story. It is a tale of aerial navigation in the year of grace two thousand and twenty-five, and is marked by remarkable imagination and colouring. Perhaps Kipling has nowhere ever surpassed the paragraph in this story in which he describes how the passengers on the Night Mail see, far below, the outlines of the hospitable airship, carrying its load of tuberculosis patients northward to a sanitarium near the Pole, and hear, borne to their ears by the wind, the quavering voices uplifted in the morning hymn. She was cloaked by a skein of ravelled fluff beneath us, and we caught the chant before she rose into the sunlight. "Oh, ye Winds of God," sang the unseen voices: "Bless ye the Lord! Praise Him and magnify Him for ever." We slid off our caps and joined in. When our shadow fell across her great open platforms they looked up and stretched out their hands neighbourly while they sang. We could see the doctors and the nurses and the whitebutton-like faces of the cot-patients. She passed slowly beneath us, heading northward, her hull, wet with the dews of the night, all ablaze in the sunshine. So took she the shadow of a cloud and vanished, her song continuing up. Oh, ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord! Praise Him and magnify Him for ever. When it became a matter of preparing With the Night Mail for publication in book form Mr. Kipling was not content to let it appear in its original form. Years ago there was a story to the effect that Kipling asked his American publisher to forward to him a batch of the American magazines. The publisher complied, but for the purpose of decreasing the bulk, had the magazines stripped of their advertising pages. Kipling acknowledged the receipt of the magazines, but remonstrated against the mutilation on the AN ITALIAN IMPRESSION OF H. E. KREHBIEL, AUTHOR OF "CHAPTERS OF OPERA" ground that the advertising pages made by far the most interesting reading. In much the same spirit Kipling claimed that With the Night Mail, as a magazine story of the year two thousand and twenty-five, should have the atmosphere of that period. So as a kind of appendix to the story he has written the Notes, Letters to the Editor, Answers to Correspondents, and Advertising Pages such as he believes will be found at the end of the magazines of that day. In the Answers to Correspondents, Planiston, who is evidently of a sporting turn of mind, is informed that the Five was Thousand Kilometer (overland) won last year "By G. V. Hayden, R. M. Hayden, his brother, in the same week pulling off the Ten Thousand (oversea). R. M.'s average worked out at a fraction over 500 kilometer P. H., thus constituting a record." A correspondent who signs himself Paterfamilias has evidently been writing in a state of considerable exasperation. He is informed by the editor that a certain offender "is liable for direct damage both to your chimneys and any collateral damage caused by fall of bricks into garden, etc., etc. Bodily inconvenience and mental anguish may be included, but the average jury are not, as a rule, men of sentiment. If you can |