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43 The bulk of the material for the really first-rate balanced study of Butler is now in print and much of the remaining unpublished important material is accessible to responsible scholars. The great work of synthesis, however, has not yet been written. One hopes that many fine Butler scholars we now have in American and England may be challenged. Purdue University H. E. Gerber 2. THE READERS' GUIDE TO KIPLING'S WORK. Edited by Roger Lancelyn Green and Brigadier Alec Mason, and Prepared for Mr. R. E. Harbord. . . . Privately printed in a limited edition of 100 copies. Canterbury, Kent, England: Messrs Glbbs & Sons Ltd., 1961. Part One. $15.00. This is the first part of the projected six sections of this major Kipling work. [For details on the origin and development ot this project and notes on various "Readers' Guides" that have appeared previously as separate pamphlets or as articles in the KIPLING JOURNAL, see EFT, III: 5 (I960), 171.] The first 636-page section has prefaces for and highly detailed notes on the following works: PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS, KlM, SOLDIERS THREE, WEE WILLIE WINKIE, the STALKY stories, some of the "Uncollected" stories. This project very nearly provides something like a concordance to the works of Kipling; because of the detail and fullness of many of the notes, it is certainly more than a glossary or a dictionary. This project, within its limits, nearly does for Kipling what the Variorum Edition does for Shakespeare. It is surely a labor of love and a reference work of enduring value. Page and line references in the notes are to the Macmillan Uniform and the Pocket editions, which may, for the moment, be a handicap to some users of the GUIDE. However, the editors promise to provide an index which will then make this work equally useful to those who have access only to other than the Macmillan editions. When the project is completed, probably some time after the Kipling centenary in 1965, we shall have the most thorough research tools on Kipling that have been provided for any writer in many years. With the Yeats-Stewart CATALOGUE, the EFT annotated bibliographies of writings about Kipling [ill: 3, 4, 5 (I960) and the supplement now in preparation], and the complete READERS' GUIDE, Kipling scholars will have the basic research material that could lead to a series of really superior critical studies, following, for example, the lead of Professor Tompkins, and a continuation of the trend to rediscover and revaluate Kipling which has been underway for several years. Purdue University H. E. Gerber MISCELLANEOUS BOOK NOTES 1. It is good to have reprinted an excellent selection of the essays of G. M. Young (VICTORIAN ESSAYS. Chosen and Introduced by W. D. Handcock. Lond: Oxford ...

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