'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pay tribute to the man who made it possible... Scott, Thackeray, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Rudyard Kipling were but a few authors we had at our fingertips. How he made the people live again for us!".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Clark Print: Book
In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bourget having failed to translate Kipling's "McAndrew's Hymn" into French, Henry James 'straight away put it into "vigorous idiomatic French" ...'
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James
'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
'[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it through a second time.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Besant Print: Book
'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Hazlitt's Essays and Ruskin's The Crown of Wild Olives. Later... he joined the library committee of the Miners' Institute in Maesteg, made friends with the librarian, and advised him on acquisitions. Thus he could read all the books he wanted: Marx, Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Marshall, economic and trade union history, Fabian Essays, Thomas Hardy, Meredith, Kipling and Dickens'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies Print: Book
'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and "the Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Cole and brothers Print: Serial / periodical
[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I overflow, I beg you to believe, with "Kim", and I rejoice in such a saturation, such a splendid dose of you.[goes on to praise novel further]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
[List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
'I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes of my first pipe of shag tobacco... My first book had just been published. I was going courting. My book had earned ten pounds. I desired to be a subaltern in H. B. M's army. The story was Mr Kipling's "Only a subaltern". The next station would be Winchelsea, where I was to descend.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of imperial derring-do to tell theimpressionable young colonial'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book
'Saturday, 2nd January,
Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother.
Read: ?Plain Tales from the Hills? (R.Kipling)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
[List of books read in 1926]
'"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes),
"Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling),
"History of Florence" (Machiavelli),
"Essays in Socialism" (Belfort Bax),
"Socialism: Critical and Constructive" (J.R. Macdonald),
"Trimblerigg" (L. Houseman),
"Peer Gynt" (Ibsen),
"A Chair on the Boulevard" (L. Merrick),
"Brand" (Ibsen),
"The Long Roll" (M. Johnston),
"Compleat Angler" (I. Walton),
"Omoo" (H. Melville),
"Shorter Poems" (M. Prior),
"Notre Coeur" (G. de Maupassant),
"Barry Lindon" (Thackeray),
"Path to Rome" (Belloc),
"The Americans" (Henry James),
"Four Georges" (Thackeray),
"Memoirs of the Crusades" (Villehardouin & de Joinville),
"Journal to Stella" (Swift),
"Hamlet" (Temple Shakespeare),
"The Eye Witness" (Belloc),
"Almayer's Folly" (Conrad),
"Tartarin sur les Alpes" (Daudet),
"The Tragedy of Education" (Edmond Holmes),
"La Peur de Chagrin" etc (Balzac),
"Life of Nelson" (Southey),
"Les Fr?quentations de Maurice" (Sidney Place),
"Journal of the Plague Year" (Defoe),
"Figures in Modern Literature" (J.B. Priestley),
"English Humourists" (Thackeray),
"Frank Mildmay" (Marryat),
"Polar Exploration" (Buck),
"Cricket and Cricketers" (Philip [illegible]),
"The Sowers" ([illegible]),
"Our Mr Wrenn" (Sinclair Lewis),
"Martin Arrowsmith" (ditto),
"Short History of the World" (H.G. Wells),
"Jack Hamlin's Mediation" etc (Bret Harte),
"At the Sign of the Blue Boar" (Wyndham Lewis),
"Orphan Island" (Rose Macaulay),
"The Spanish Farm" (R.H. Mottram),
"Mr Prohack" (Arnold Bennett),
"Told by an Idiot" (Rose Macaulay),
"Mr Waddington of Wyck" (May Sinclair),
"English Comic Characters" (J.B. Priestley),
"Henry IV" (Temple Shakespeare),
"Lolly Willowes" ( ? ) [Sylvia Townsend Warner]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
'22nd September 1928 (Saturday).
I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this book although the slabs of jaunty, impatient, imperialism become rather monotonous. Still, the splendid descriptive power that the book betokens, make it excellent reading. The ?sentiments? are too well known, and too familiar to jar now to any appreciable degree. It is a curious contrast that in a book very slight in itself, with little thread or cohesion, the phrasing should be so powerful. I suppose Kipling?s long experience in ballad-mongering stands him in good stead.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
'3rd October 1928 (Wednesday).
Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned home hungry as a hunter. Finished ?Letters of Travel? which has been hanging fire. To bed early.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
'15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?Phiz? illustrations to ?Sketches by Boz? and she talked of Wilhelm Busch as the greatest of German pencil artists.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
'I have never (in his prose work) found a trace of the artist?s passion for words & loving care over them; & in his poetry I am convinced that the extraordinarily vivid images & similes that he gets hold of (?the thresh of the deep sea rain?, for instance,) are used in the rough just as they come to him. . . . I fancy he would rather scorn mere artistry, & when it was mentioned begin to talk about fighting or famine or fakirs.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh is it necessary to build character on a psychological untruth? In other words to teach the young citizen that he is absolutely unlike the young German or the young Bashahari -- that foreigners are envious and treacherous, Englishmen, through some freak of God, never --? Kipling and all that school know it's an untruth at the bottom of their hearts -- as untrue as it is unloveable. But, for the sake of patriotism, they lie. It is despairing [...]
'I couldn't on the other hand read the New Machiavelli, finding it too fretful and bumptious, and very inartistic, but must try again -- the more so as Wells, in an article in Le Temps has mentioned me among the authors qui meritent etre mieux connus en France [...] The best novels I have come across in the past year are Rosalind Murray's The Leading Note [...] and Wedgwood's Shadow of a Titan -- unfortunately written in an affected and unreadable style.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff Print: Book
'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she could not enjoy herself, which cut out all the poor quality writing which every right-minded child loves when he can get it. Her only concession was one weekly comic, "Rainbow". But apart from that, I was reared on a fine mixed diet of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Dickens, Stevenson, Hans Andersen, Kenneth Grahame and Kipling – especially Puck of Pook’s Hill whose three magnificent stories of Roman Britain were the beginning of my own passion for the subject, and resulted in the fullness of time in The Eagle of the Ninth. Hero myths of Greece and Rome I had, in an unexpurgated edition which my mother edited herself as she went along, and Norse and Saxon and Celtic legends. There were Whyte Melville’s The Gladiators and Bulwer Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii and Weigal’s Egyptian Princess; for my mother loved historical novels – history of any kind, though her view of it was always the minstrel’s rather than the historian’s.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff Print: Book
'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordsworth's Grave" pleased him [...] He praised too Mr Rudyard Kipling's "English Flag," and Kipling's answer to his letter of commendation gave him pleasure: "When the private in the ranks is praised by the general, he cannot presume to thank him, but he fights the better next day."'
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson
'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of which she read them a great deal of Stevenson and Kipling'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Rawlings Print: Book
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Stubington Print: Book
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: T.T. Stubington Print: Book
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stubington Print: Book
'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wallis, by the Chairman followed by an interesting discussion. Readings were then given by Mr Goadby, Mr Cass, Mr Stubington, Mr Stansfield & A Rawlings'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Allan Goadby Print: Book
'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "Cavalcade". It is very inspiring; it ends with "God Save The King".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war Print: Book
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire:
The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth)
The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge)
Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard)
The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?)
The Talisman (Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale)
The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake)
The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge)
The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge)
The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling)
The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling)
Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling)
Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling)
The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge)
and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Print: Book
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire:
The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth)
The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge)
Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard)
The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?)
The Talisman (Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale)
The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake)
The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge)
The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge)
The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling)
The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling)
Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling)
Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling)
The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge)
and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Print: Book
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire:
The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth)
The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge)
Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard)
The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?)
The Talisman (Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale)
The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake)
The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge)
The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge)
The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling)
The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling)
Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling)
Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling)
The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge)
and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Print: Book
Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire:
The Tapestry Room (Mrs Molesworth)
The Pigeon Pie (Charlotte M. Yonge)
Lilian’s Golden Hours (Eliza Meteyard)
The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
Wandering Willie (from Scott’s Redgauntlet?)
The Talisman (Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
St Ives (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Theodora Phranza (J. M. Neale)
The House of Walderne (A. D. Crake)
The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Caged Lion (Charlotte M. Yonge)
The Little Duke (Charlotte M. Yonge)
The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling)
The Maltese Cat (Rudyard Kipling)
Boscobel (William Harrison Ainsworth)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling)
Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling)
The Armourer’s Apprentice (Charlotte M. Yonge)
and some poetry.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Print: Book
'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts.
1. Pianoforte solo. Selection from Debusy [sic] Miss Bowman Smith
2. Reading. Modern Froissart Chronicles Mrs W.H. Smith
3. Reading. Migrations. Anon. Contrib. from Punch by Alfred Rawlings
4. Recitation. In a Gondola (Browning) Miss Cole
5. Song. 2 French Bergerettes. Mrs Unwin
6. Essay. 'The Pious Atrocity' R.B. Graham
7. Reading. Wedding Presents (Punch) Mrs Reynolds
8. Song. My dear Soul. Mrs Robson
9. Reading 'How the Camel got his Hump' W.H. Smith
10. Song. The Camel's hump. E.E. Unwin
11. Reading. The Man of the Evening (A.A. Milne Punch) Miss R. Wallis
12. Song. Hebrides Galley Song. Miss Bowman Smith
13. Reading. Arms of Wipplecrack S.A. Reynolds
14. Reading. Joints in the Armour. E.V. Lucas. H.M. Wallis
15. Song-Chant Folk Song [ditto]
16. Essay. 'Bad morality & bad art' R.H. Robson
17. Song. Winter. Miss Bowman Smith
18. Essay 'Etaples & the air raids' H.R. Smith
19. Recitation. These new fangled ways. E.E. Unwin
20. Song. Goodnight. Mrs Robson.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Smith Print: Book
'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions.
C.E. Stansfield a reading from 'Paradise Lost' followed by a short essay entitled "The Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life"
Mary Hayward. Song "Now sleeps the crimson petals"
C.I. Evans. Two Readings. Of an Orchard. Higson. The Apple. John Burrough.
Mrs Robson. Song. "Thank God for a Garden"
Miss Cole. Recitation. 'The Flower's Name'. Browning.
E.E. Unwin. Song. "Come into the Garden Maud"
Mrs Evans. Reading from "The Small Garden Useful" dealing with the Cooking of Vegetables.
C.I. Evans. Reading. "My Garden"
interval for supper
Miss Wallis. Reading by Request 'My Garden' - a parody
Miss Cole. Recitation. Gardens. by Kipling
Miss Hayward. Song.
R.H. Robson Violin Solo
C.I. Evans. Reading. A ballad of trees & the master
Mrs Robson. Song.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Cole Print: Book
'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fairies. "Cold Iron"
F. E. Pollard sang "Do you wonder where the Fairies are?"
C. I. Evans read "True Thomas"
& H. M. Wallis contributed an original Phantasia [?] on Rigmarole
After Refreshments Muriel B. Smith played two passages from Pier Gynt. This was followed by a somewhat desultory & inconclusive discussion on Fairies & Fairy Stories & in conclusion Miss Brain read a Swedish Tale & Mrs Rawlings told the story of Puss in Boots.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Print: Book
Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]
7. Schoolmasters in Literature were portrayed by a series of readings from biography and
fiction. There were ten in all and they reflected the various estimation in which these beings
are held, and were held generations ago. In spite of the dullness, the jealousy and the morbid
introspection that characterize the assistant, the profession is in part redeemed by the haloes
that flicker around its heads - generally, it must be admitted, very much in retrospect.
After all, would other professions fare much better?
We are certainly indebted to the committee who prepared the readings, and regret that
Reginald Robson felt it necessary to omit the one he had allotted to himself.
The readings were given in this order.
1. From Roger Ascham V. W. Alexander
2. [From] Westward Ho H. R. Smith
3. [From] Essays of Elia Janet Rawlings
4. [From] T. E. Brown's Clifton Celia Burrow
6. [From] Stalky & Co G. H. S. Burrow
5. [From] Life of Frederick Andrews Mary Robson
7. [From] Vanity Fair S. A. Reynolds
8. [From] Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill Dorothy Brain
9. [From] Jeremy at Crale E. B. Castle
10. [From] Rugby Chapel F. E. Pollard
'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow Print: Book
'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
[...]
5. H. M Wallis then gave the Club the story of Kipling’s life & some appreciation of him. These
notes were made of his paper, & will I hope recall it in greater detail: Story in Baa Baa Black
Sheep. Beetle of Stalky & Co., newspaper work in India, Kim. Some of best before 26, read
Puck’s song and others, & a True Tale.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis
'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
[...]
5. H. M Wallis then gave the Club the story of Kipling’s life & some appreciation of him. These
notes were made of his paper, & will I hope recall it in greater detail: Story in Baa Baa Black
Sheep. Beetle of Stalky & Co., newspaper work in India, Kim. Some of best before 26, read
Puck’s song and others, & a True Tale.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis
'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
[...]
5. H. M Wallis then gave the Club the story of Kipling’s life & some appreciation of him. These
notes were made of his paper, & will I hope recall it in greater detail: Story in Baa Baa Black
Sheep. Beetle of Stalky & Co., newspaper work in India, Kim. Some of best before 26, read
Puck’s song and others, & a True Tale.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis
'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
[...]
6. Celia Burrow read The Flowers.
7. H. R. Smith read a criticism from The Listener by Edwin Muir. [...]
8. R. H. Robson read “Tods’[sic] Amendment.”
9. Rosamund Wallis read “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat”, from The 2nd Jungle Book.
10. H. R. Smith read “My Sunday at Home” from The Day’s Work.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Celia Burrow
'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
[...]
6. Celia Burrow read The Flowers.
7. H. R. Smith read a criticism from The Listener by Edwin Muir. [...]
8. R. H. Robson read “Tods’[sic] Amendment.”
9. Rosamund Wallis read “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat”, from The 2nd Jungle Book.
10. H. R. Smith read “My Sunday at Home” from The Day’s Work.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson
'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
[...]
6. Celia Burrow read The Flowers.
7. H. R. Smith read a criticism from The Listener by Edwin Muir. [...]
8. R. H. Robson read “Tods’[sic] Amendment.”
9. Rosamund Wallis read “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat”, from The 2nd Jungle Book.
10. H. R. Smith read “My Sunday at Home” from The Day’s Work.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis
'Meeting held at Hillsborough, 4 Glebe Road: 3.3.36
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
[...]
6. Celia Burrow read The Flowers.
7. H. R. Smith read a criticism from The Listener by Edwin Muir. [...]
8. R. H. Robson read “Tods’[sic] Amendment.”
9. Rosamund Wallis read “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat”, from The 2nd Jungle Book.
10. H. R. Smith read “My Sunday at Home” from The Day’s Work.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith
'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevans "India" Wells "War [of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs Print: Book
'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kipling's stories in which [italics]"Belait"[end italics] occurs as a Hindustanee word for Europe. I suppose they brought it from India.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Book
'I then read a book of Kipling's, "Under the Derdens [sic] ", which I had brought home with me and will send to you as soon as Grandmamma [Lady Olliffe] has read it. It is nothing like so good as the military stories, but it was the only one which was in. The last story in it is the best but it seems to me needlessly pathetic and without the power of the "Soldiers Three".
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: Book
'I then read a book of Kipling's, "Under the Derdens [sic] ", which I had brought home with me and will send to you as soon as Grandmamma [Lady Olliffe] has read it. It is nothing like so good as the military stories, but it was the only one which was in. The last story in it is the best but it seems to me needlessly pathetic and without the power of the "Soldiers Three".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: Book
'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only tolerably good.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: Book
'In bed all day. Bob Craig and Janie Clark in afternoon. Bob gave me "Traffics and Discoveries". Leg much better. Bailleul has fallen. Damn and Blast it!'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker Print: Book
'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41
F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clough read an exceedingly interesting paper on “Children’s Literature”
showing the was it has developed from the “Moral Tales” of Maria Edgeworth
published at the beginning of the 19th. Century, to the delightful tales by Beatrix
Potter & A. A. Milne which are read today. The one retrogressive step she thought
was in the binding of the books, which today seem to come to pieces almost at
once. All the mothers present agreed with this, so it is no reflection on the Clough
children in particular although it may be on the modern child in general.
4. Readings from children’s literature were then given as follows:
Labour Lost from the Rollo Books. Selected by S. A. Reynolds & read by A. B.
Dilks.
“The Fairchild Family” by Mrs. Sherwood read by Mrs. Pollard – this was
particularly gruesome.
“Little Women” by Louisa Alcott read by Mary Stansfield.
Divers examples of children[’]s poetry read by Rosamund Wallis, which included
an impromptu recitation by Howard Smith of one of Hillair[e] Belloc’s Cautionary
Tales.
“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carrol[l] read by F. E. Pollard.
“Samuel Whiskers” by Beatrix Potter read by Muriel Stevens.
“The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo” a Just So Story by Rudyard Kipling, read by
Howard Smith.
“The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame read by Margaret Dilks.
“The House at Pooh Corner” by A. A. Milne, read by A. B. Dilks.
5. Bruce Dilks sang two of Fraser-Simsons settings of A. A. Milne’s Poems.
“Christopher Robin Alone in the Dark” and “Happiness”.
[Signed as a true record of the meeting by] S. A. Reynolds
April 7th / 41'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith Print: Book
'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R. H. Robson told of The Stately Homes of Thames, + we heard of Bisham
Abbey, Mapledurham, Ufton Court, of Jesuits hunted by Walsingham, of the
incident of The Rape of the Lock, of Lovelace, Lady Place, Hurley, and Soames
Forsyte.
6. H. R. Smith, dealing with the Story of the River, + passing lightly over the
Danish incursions upstream, spoke of the thousand years in which the Thames had
been in bounds. Weirs had been made by millers, navigation had been slow and
perilous, the modern lock was a matter of the last hundred + fifty years. Twenty-
six mills were named in Domesday Book[.] The Thames Conservancy had brought
order out of chaos.
[...]
8. S. A. Reynolds read from Mortimer Menpes of warehouses + houseboats, the
boat race + Henley Regatta, Kingfishers + quick backwaters, fishing + the
vagaries of the towpath.
9. R. D. L. Moore gave us Literary Gleanings, touching on Spenser and Shelley,
quoting from The Scholar Gypsy + Thyrsis, + reading Soames Forsyte’s thoughts
in the early morning on the river, Kipling’s The River’s Tale, + Virginia Woolf’s
astonishing account in Orlando of the great frost, when a girl dissolved into
powder + fish were frozen twenty fathoms deep!
[...]
11. Muriel Stevens read a friend’s notes on Deptford + its river scenes.
12. A. B. Dilkes from Three Men in a Boat.
[Signed] S A Reynolds
27/3/93 [i.e. 27/3/39]'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Moore
'Thursday. Lovely day. Walked about good deal. Pollard arrived. Fr. Read A Fleet in Being by Kipling. All well.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Thomas Print: Book
'...Mother reads all the new French novels and Rudyard Kipling ... and though she
says they are so horrible she can hardly get through them, she will go on reading
them ... But how if you cannot read Dickens because of the vulgarity you can enjoy
Rudyard Kipling is more than I can understand.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Lytton Print: Book
'Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book,”The Day’s
Work”, a novel[sic]). J.M. Barrie—a Scotsman. His last book “Sentimental Tommy” (last year).
[...] George Moore has published the novel “Evelyn Innes”—un success d’estime. He is supposed
to belong to the naturalistic school and Zola is his prophet. Tout ça, c’est très vieux jeu. A
certain Mr. T Watts-Dunton published the novel “Aylwin” a curiosity success, as this Watts-
Dunton( who is also a barrister) is apparently a friend of different celebrities in the world of Fine
Arts (especially in the pre-Raphaelite School). He has crammed them all into his book. H.G.
Wells published this year “The War of the Worlds” and “The Invisible Man”. He is a very original
writer, romancier du fantastique, with a very individualist judgement in all things and an
astonishing imagination.’
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'Nevertheless, there is nothing that I should prize more than a nice edition of Kipling, whose
poems I am just beginning to read and to wonder why I never read them before.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
'I've read the "Seven Seas" and Jessie has used the scent (after heroic struggles with Kipling's
diction and the glass stopper)and we are full of gratitude. Both things are excellent--the scent in
its way better than the poems. But this we can discuss.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'Talking of Kipling it is time you began him: try "Rewards & Fairies" and if the first story in it
"Cold Iron" doesn't knock you head over heels, I don't know what will.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
(1) 'We have all been plunged in misery here for the last week because no one can remember
the context or the author of a quotation that we all know as well as our own names. It started
by Mrs. K. seeing it in the "In Memoriam" part of the paper and asking casually what it was
from: since then we have ransacked our memories and books of reference in vain. You will
laugh us to scorn when I tell you that it is the familiar,
"E'en as he trod that day to God
So walked he from his birth,
In simpleness and gentleness
In honour and clean mirth."
but I am dashed if I can remember where it comes from. Some time I am sure it is Kipling,
and again in other moods it seems impossible. Try and enlighten us.' (2) 'Yes! That was a bad
lapse of memory, and now that the mystery is solved, I wonder how I could possibly have
forgotten it. Perhaps the fact of its being printed as 3 lines (the "God" and "trod" rhymes
having lines to themselves) had something to do with it. Still, ... I thought I knew my Kipling
better than that. Like all quotations from good authors, it is much finer in its setting than when
we read it alone: that whole poem ought to settle for good and all K's question as to whether
Kipling is a poet.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Newspaper
'I have … changed billet, and the chaps here are very nice indeed. Good men,
which is a great point. But in this new democracy almost everyone is jolly, or
tries to be. Kipling’s little 6d book on the new Armies [The New Army in
Training] is very good. Hast seen it?’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Book
‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of
which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s
confession of Faith … My leave starts on Thursday—5 whole days … Do you
not like Laurence Binyon’s verses in the Times Supplement? Those and
Hardy’s and Kipling’s are the best of the bunch. Though I like Watson
Grenfell and Noyes. Hardy’s grows on one. Did you ever read his last book
of Short Stories—"The Changed Man"? … Have you read any of D F
Lawrence? I have just finished an extraordinary book called "The White
Peacock", full of arresting studies of character and most essentially
breathing of earth and clouds and flowers—though not a pleasant book …
we had Zeps here about a fortnight ago. Two bombs were dropped on
Chelmsford itself, both on or near the Glosters billeting area. The damage
was perhaps 5£ worth. It cured an old lady of muscular rheumatism, indeed
it made an athlete, a sprinter of her—she went down the street in her
nightgown like a comet or some gravity-defying ghost.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Newspaper
‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with
an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with
whom I usually spent the best of it—with Will Harvey … Yesterday, some
misbegotten fool took all my books and burned them. They were in a sack
and too near other rubbish sacks for safety as it seems. This includes the
French war songs I had promised … We are just going up again and will be
on business for a little while now. Old Pepys is a great man, really a great
man to be so absolutely interested in everything interesting. Of course he
is funny, but that is not the final impression left by the book … The article in
the Times Literary on the Navy was very good [“The Tradition of the Navy,”
31 August 1916, p.1] … I read a great deal of Kipling’s "Fringes of the Fleet"
in a shell hole, during one of the most annoying times we have had. It was
during heavy fatigue, and the Bosches spotted us and let fly with heavy
shrapnel and 5.9s … In books, after a careful survey, I find myself reduced
to Wordsworth’s "Excursion", and a few blitherings from the “Pastor” have
reduced me to a state of “wet” melancholy. (“Wet” is B.E.F. for half-witted.)
I bought that book from a 2d box in Putney, and the excruciatingly mild
engraving at the beginning alone is worth the money; but not to me. It is
lucky that some of my books were distributed, and can be begged back. But
alas! Walt Whitman and Browning are na poo.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Book
'Read "Kim". Heard from S by last post.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Verena Vera Pennefather Print: Book
'Walked Marshy Meadows by myself. Read "Kim".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Verena Vera Pennefather Print: Book
'Walked Marshy Meadows. Read "Light that Failed."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Verena Vera Pennefather Print: Book
'Wrote to Maysie. Read Jungle Book.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Verena Vera Pennefather Print: Book
'The priest brother would give us English songs on
his Gramophone ... They were v. decent & I should
have liked to partake the funny dinner but we
returned to Vaton Is. [Nisyros] with regrets &
finished building the bridge shelter. Played Poker
Patience with Blair, but got a hiding. Reading
Kipling's Departmental _____ [sic]. Another game of
chess & gave Blair hell.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cecil Vincent Connolly Print: Book
'Have just finished some recollections of Kipling called Something of Myself. I am horrified at his
sufferings as a child. When not with the Burne-Jones family he was boarded out with some terrible
people . . .and he never complained.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vere Hodgson Print: Book
'I have been longing to be back among you all, and
feeling very lonely this afternoon. Since then I
have been reading Tennyson's splendid "Ode to the
Duke of Wellington," and his "Revenge," and
"Riflemen Form," and Kipling's "Children's Song,"
and Newbolt's "Clifton Chapel," "He Fell Among
Thieves," "Vitae Lampada," and "The Vigil." These
splendid poems have roused me and brought back my
work and my duty, and I am glad, yes very glad,
that I have chosen this life—and am living
out here on our frontier.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Dunlop Smith
'Life's Handicap'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good Print: Book
