Rudyard Kipling: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him

1. RUDYARD KIPLING AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ABOUT HlM Compilad and Edited by Helmut E. Gei*ber and Edward Lauterbach Annotated by Morton N. Cohen (City College of New York), Joseph R. Dunlap (Library, City College of New York), H.E. Gerber (Purdue University), Mrs. David Haft (Kipling Room, Dalhousie University), E.S. Lauterbach (Purdue University), Stanton Mil Vet (University of Illinois), Robert Peters (Wayne State University), Ann Weygandt (University of Delaware), A.W. Yeats (McMurry College). The persons listed above as annotators have done more than the usual allotment of work on this collaborative project. Many of them, with research projects of their own under way and some while on vacation, permitted us to trespass on time they could ill spare. We are very grateful to Charles Green, who helped us in the early stages of assembling our enormous file from inaccurate, incomplete, and sometimes incomprehensible indexes and bibliographies. We are also grateful to many persons who in various ways encouraged and advised us: Israel Kaplan, for allowing us to see the typescript bibliography of his dissertation; Mr. Carl Naumburg, for helpful suggestions; the officers of the British Kipling Society (Roger Lancelyn Green and Bagwell Purefoy), for making available a complete set of the KIPLING JOURNAL; to Mrs. Gerber, as usual, for preparing hundreds of pages of typescript and helping with the proofreading; and to Mrs. Nuss, for expertly and patiently typing the stencils while carrying on all her other duties as head secretary of the Purdue University English Department. Here we must also take note of several special features of our bibliography. First, we have made no attempt to list every item which contributes a bit of bibliographical information about Kipling's works; we have listed the major ones and a sampling of minor ones. In many instances these items required only slight comment and, often, no more than a reference to the description given in Stewart's BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE, edited and prepared for press by A.W. Yeats. We have also made no attempt to list all brief notes in the KIPLING JOURNAL, but we have tried to list all the most significant items—to do more would necessitate preparing an analytical index of this publication. Not included here are unpublished dissertations. Regretfully, because of difficulties in acquiring and reading dissertations available only on typescript or microfilm, we cannot annotate these. Since most European dissertations are published (i.e. printed), we have annotated all those we were able to see. Unpublished dissertations on Kipling will be listed tn our general bibliographies in future issues. We have also made no attempt to list every comment published in various local English, Indian, and American newspapers. To attempt such completeness would entail a lifetime of searching small-town and county newspaper files. Not even the smallest of English rural newspapers Seems wholly to have neglected Kipling, and even American newspapers of small circulation seem to have reported Kipling's whereabouts while he was in the United States. Many such items, however, are abstracted or listed in the KIPLING JOURNAL. In the present bibliography we have not systematically surveyed reviews; these we leave for the supplement planned for I96I. We have also not included many i terns in German, Italian, and a few other languages because of difficulties in gaining access to this material, but these are also being annotated for our supplement. We believe this bibliography includes the bulk of important commentaries on Kipling, but we are still searching hundreds of obscure and scarce items, we are still tracing items incorrectly listed or ambiguously listed in various bibliographies , and we plan to survey as thoroughly as possible the reviews of Kipling's works. Thus, the supplement planned for some time in 1961 will fill most of the gaps in the present list. In addition, we shall print in a future number a series of brief surveys of the Kipling material to be found in major private and public collections in America and England. 3. Abraham, Pierre. "Rudyard Kipling," LA NOUVELLE REVUE FRANÇAISE, XLVI (Feb 1936), 29I-35. A general appreciation interesting for the distinction drawn between "le roman d'aventures"· and "le roman exotique." The first, taking other...