In Praise of Kipling's County God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall prove Beloved over all.
Each to his choice, and I rejoice The lot has fallen to me a fair ground—in a fair ground—Yea, Sussex by the sea!
Ropyarp Kiptina.
Mr. R. Thurston Hopkins's Kipling's Sussex'? (Simpkin, Marshall, igs. Gd.) is a record of pious pilgrimage made to all the places in, perhaps, England's most wondrous county that have been mentioned by Rudyard Kipling. Sussex is a lucky as well as a delicious land. What other county has in ona generation found three lovers so gifted and so-articulate as Rudyard Kipling, Hilaire Belloc, and E. V. Lucas?
Kipling's Sussex is for the most. part East Sussex, a district that has been recently used with drama-tie effect by Miss Sheila Kaye—Smith in her novels. Mr. Hopkins. gossips pleasantly about Winchel—sea, where Ellen Terry lived for so many years; about Rye, where in days gone by stout ships were built. of stout Sussex oak; about the-Romney Marsh, about Pevensey, about Seaford, about Lewes.
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