![]() Interpreting `relief’ in his own way, Kipling explained his position to an American friend, Charles Eliot Norton: These were, he said, exactly the qualities which he associated with the United States. There is an almost incredible lack of significance in parts of it, as if it were a steamer underengined for its length.’ Kipling was startled by the reviewer’s strictures. ![]() ![]() The Atlantic critic complained that, although the book achieved `relief from the go-fever and insistence of Kipling’s earlier work, `it is relief procured at the cost of life…. ![]() The weather was inclement, he had an atrocious cold, and a review of Captains Courageous in the Atlantic Monthly (LXXX Dec 1897, pp 856/7) had left him smarting. In December 1897 Rudyard Kipling was in low spirits. ![]()
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