To, the Editor of the Norrm-Cuixa Dairy News." do not agree with in his contention with regard to the Carlton Theatre's advertising rick for "Splinters the Navy."
The only other rhyme to Slavey y Navy being, gravy, which the ingenuity of "Boge!" might manage to work in but which was apparently beyond the scope of the Jcomposer, he obviously adopted the very common expedient of rhyming the two halves of his first line—an standard. 1 do not know of any Light literature of outstanding meric. by writers of either sex on "Annam, [Siam, Malaya, the Straits Settle: ments, Java, ete,, and I will admit that rise Tennycon Jessen's "La quer Lady" gives an excellent pi fare of Burma, but can it be com pared with Mr. Forster's "A Passage fo India"? T'eannot help thinking that Forster, as a keen observer of actualities, towers above Kipling, in Spite of your writer's stalement that "Kipling in India stands com pletely alone, if a qualitative exiter-fon be applied, "The only quality: tive criterion that 1 Know capable Jot rendering the above. statement frac would be the mattiness of binding, suitability as a gift to a person who rarely 1o0ks inside the cover, I'fear that half our troubles ju India to-day are due to the fact that the Kipling-fed British public regards all Indians either as woolly [Afghans or jungle-born Tarzans, diversified by faithful servants and Jcomic-relief Babus. Kipling may be ferent as a story-teller, but as an Jobserver he seems to me to reflect very exactly the spirit of his times, Tt is for that very reason he is s0 highly praised by old Anglo-Indians. They are not so pleased with Katherine Mayo or E. M. Forster, You can "end Kipling: from end to end with: lout' finding any explanation ofthe Present, unrest, but you need not read more than the tst chapter of Annie Steel's "On the Face of the Waters," to understand which way be universally admitted, that it is the existence of War Debts that prevent the return to normal not only of the Debtor Nation but of their solitary creditor and that the whole world is being adversely afwaste more discussions. The remedy is simple tg thine eye offend thee pluck it lout" Let the Debtor Nations get foxether: and inform America that they ae "Gnanimouny "agreed to Postpone, payment sive ies In doing s0 they would be only follow. ing the excellent precedent. esta:
ished first by certain of the Southern States and" apparently eventually tacitly approved of by the United States.
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