Research Catalog

Title

A book of words : selections from speeches and addresses delivered between 1906 and 1927 / by Rudyard Kipling.

Author

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Publication

Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1928.

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Details

Description

vii, 279 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Selections from speeches and addresses delivered between 1906 and 1927

Subject

Speeches, addresses, etc., English

Genre/Form

Speeches

Note

• "First edition."

Indexed In (note)

• Stewart, J.M. Kipling

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Literature -- The claims of art -- Values in life -- Imperial relations -- Growth and responsibility -- The handicaps of letters -- A doctor's work -- The spirit of the navy -- The ritual of government -- The verdict of equals -- The uses of reading -- Some aspects of travel -- The war and the schools -- The magic square -- The first sailor -- England and the English -- The Scot and the war -- The virtue of France -- A thesis -- A return to civilisation -- The trees and the wall -- Waking from dreams -- Surgeons and the soul -- Independence -- The classics and the science -- Work in the future -- Shipping -- Stationery -- Fiction -- The spirit of the Latin -- Our Indian troops in France.

ISBN

• 0836918843
• 836918843

LCCN

^^^28018134^

OCLC

• 634439
• SCSB-13381047

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library