Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . aspects of Jewish life andhis sympathy with his race, as well as his literaryskill and power. Aiitlioiiy Hope Hawkins, born in 1863, theson of a London head-master and clerg)man, waseducated at Marlborough and Balliol College, andcalled to the Bar in 1887. The Prisoner of Zenda(1894) was not his first book, but it was that whichmade his pen-name of Anthony Hope familiar;and, compounded of romanticism,
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . aspects of Jewish life andhis sympathy with his race, as well as his literaryskill and power. Aiitlioiiy Hope Hawkins, born in 1863, theson of a London head-master and clerg)man, waseducated at Marlborough and Balliol College, andcalled to the Bar in 1887. The Prisoner of Zenda(1894) was not his first book, but it was that whichmade his pen-name of Anthony Hope familiar;and, compounded of romanticism, satire, modernity, yio Rudyard Kipling and burlesque, has served as a model to manyattempts in the same genre. The amusing DollyDiah^ues belong to the same year ; and othernotable works are Rupert of Hentzau, The KingsMirror, Quisanie, Tristram of Blent, and TheIntrusions of Pegsy. Kudyard Kipling, journalist, writer of shortstories, poet and novelist, was born at Bombayon 30th December 1865. His father, Mr JohnLockwood Kipling, CLE., is an artist of con-siderable knowledge and skill ; his mother {neeAlice Macdonald) has, in conjunction with herdaughter, published a volume of poems {Hand. RUDYARD KIPLING. From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry. in Hand, 1902; showing no small literary powercombined with rare delicacy and refinement offeeling. Mr Rudyard Kipling was educated atthe United Services College, Westward Ho, NorthDevon. Afterwards returning to India, he becamea journalist and acted at Allahabad as assistant-editor on the Civil and Military Gazette and thePioneer, in which were printed the stories which,when collected and republished in book form, firstdrew the attention of the reading public to hismerits. Mr Kipling has travelled in China, Japan,Africa, Australia, and America. It was during hisseven years residence in the United States thathe all but succumbed to an attack of pneumonia,which called forth an extraordinary manifestationof sympathy on the part of the America
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