Personal sketches of recent authors . and, in the highest sense, not poetryat all. They are rough descriptive sketches, marredby the coarseness of the life they depicted, and toomuch sprinkled with profanity; but they have thetrue poetic quality, spite of all defects, and theirswing and verve haunt the reader, and he puts manyof them to tunes of his own making, and hums them 280 PERSONAL SKETCHES OF RECEXT AUTHORS. as he rides or walks. Indeed, Kipling wrote many ofthem to music of his own, - - first caught the melodyand fitted the poem to it. But the vividness, thepower, the strength of the s
Personal sketches of recent authors . and, in the highest sense, not poetryat all. They are rough descriptive sketches, marredby the coarseness of the life they depicted, and toomuch sprinkled with profanity; but they have thetrue poetic quality, spite of all defects, and theirswing and verve haunt the reader, and he puts manyof them to tunes of his own making, and hums them 280 PERSONAL SKETCHES OF RECEXT AUTHORS. as he rides or walks. Indeed, Kipling wrote many ofthem to music of his own, - - first caught the melodyand fitted the poem to it. But the vividness, thepower, the strength of the stories are a higher test ofhis genius. Some enthusiasts call them the bestshort stories in the English language. However thismay be, they are probably the best now being pro-duced ; and if pitched in a little lower key, andpruned of some hysterical tendency to be what thenew novelists call relentless or unflinching, theywould come near to being what his admirers and strength, however, may be bought attoo high a THE NEW YC PUBLIC LIBRARY STOR, LENOX ANDJ3EN FOUNDATIONS.
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