Letters to the family (notes on a recent trip to Canada)
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
issued: 2020-02-04
issued: 1908
description: "p[3]: "These letters appeared in newspapers during the spring of the present year... and are now reprinted." Journey was made in 1907, and includes the often quoted description of Victoria which compares the city with beauty spots around the world."-- Edwards, M. H., Lort, J. C. R., & Carmichael, W. J. (1975). A bibliography of British Columbia: Years of growth, 1900-1950. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 161.
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extent: 72 pages ; 18 cm
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note: Letters to the Family BY RUDYARD KIPLING Toronto The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited Letters to the Family (Notes on a recent trip to Canada) BY RUDYARD KIPLING TORONTO The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited A Copyright, Canada, 1907, by Rudyard Kipling. PREFACE These letters appeared in newspapers during the spring of the present year after a trip to Canada undertaken in the autumn of 1907. They are now reprinted without alteration in book form. September, 1908. LETTERS TO THE FAMILY By RUDYARD KIPLING W I HERE'S the lamp that Hero lit Once to call Leander home? Equal Time hath shoveled it 'Neath the wrack of Greece and Rome. Neither wait we any more That tall glass which Argo bore. Dust and dust of ashes close All the Vestal Virgins' care; And the oldest altar shows But an older darkness there. Age-encamped Oblivion Tenteth every light that shone! Yet shall we, for Suns that die, Wall our wanderings from desire ? Or, because the Moon is high Scorn to use a nearer fire ? Lest some envious Pharaoh stir, Make our lives our sepulchre? Nay! Though Time with petty Fate Prison us and Emperors, By our Arts do we create That which Time himself devours— Such machines as well may run 'Gainst the horses of the Sun. When we would a new abode Space, our tyrant King no more Lays the long lance of the road At our feet and flees before, Breathless, ere we overwhelm, To submit a further realm! J 6 LETTERS TO THE FAMILY IT MUST be hard for.those who do not live there to realize the cross between canker and blight that has settled on England for the last couple of years. The effects of it are felt throughout the Empire, but at headquarters we taste the stuff in the very air, just as one tastes iodoform in the cups and bread-and-butter of a hospital tea. So far as one can come at things in the present fog, every form of unfitness, general or specialized, born or created, during the last generation has combined in one big trust—a majority of all the minorities—to play the game o…
note: Other copies : http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/561619387
has type: Books
identifier: PR4856 A52 1907
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0388800
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Toronto : The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. PR4856 A52 1907
subject: Canada--Description and travel
subject: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936--Correspondence
type: Text