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About The Book : The history of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's reputation, in this spring of 1899, lies between two phrases. In 1890 we were saying to each other, with a sense of free- masonry in a new cult: "But that is another story." Today we are exhorting each other to: "Take up the white man's burden."The value of each phrase is about the value of Mr. Kipling's reputation in 1890 and 1899, respectively. He was breaking me into harness, and I owe him a deep debt of gratitude, which I did not discharge at the time. The path of virtue was very steep, whereas the writing of verses allowed a certain play to the mind, and, unlike the filling in of reading matter, could be done as the spirit served. Now, a subeditor is not hired to write verses: he is paid to subedit. About The Author : Richard Le Gallienne (20 January 1866–15 September 1947) was an English author and poet. The British-American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter by his second marriage to Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard (1863–1942). He was born Richard Thomas Gallienne in Liverpool, England, to a middle-class family. He attended the (then) all boys public school Liverpool College. After leaving school he changed his name to Le Gallienne and started work in an accountant's office in London. In 1883, his father took him to a lecture by Oscar Wilde in Birkenhead. He soon abandoned this job to become a professional writer with ambitions of being a poet. His book My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in 1887, and in 1889 he became, for a brief time, literary secretary to Wilson Barrett. In the summer of 1888 he met Wilde, and the two had a brief affair. Le Gallienne and Wilde continued an intimate correspondence after the end of the affair. Works: If I Were God (1897); The Romance of Zion Chapel (1898); In Praise of Bishop Valentine (1898); Young Lives (1899); Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies (1900); The Worshipper of the Image (1900); Travels in England (1900); The Love Letters of the King, or The Life Romantic (1901); An Old Country House (1902); Rudyard Kipling; a criticism, (1900).