The next collection of stories, Many Inventions (1893), con tained the splendid Mulvaney extravaganza, "My Lord the Ele phant"; a vividly realized tale of metempsychosis, "The Finest Story in the World"; and in that fascinating tale "In the Rukh," the prelude to the next new exhibition of the author's genius. This came in 1894 with The Jungle Book, followed in 1895 by The Second Jungle Book. With these inspired beast-stories Kipling conquered a new world and a new audience, and produced what many critics regard as his most flawless work. His chief subse quent publications were The Seven Seas (poems), 1896; Captains Courageous (a yarn of deep-sea fishery), 1897 ; The Day's Work (collected stories), 1898; A Fleet in Being (an account of a cruise in a man-of-war), 1898; Stalky and Co. (mentioned above), 1899; From Sea to Sea (mentioned above), 1899; Kim, 1901 ; Just So Stories (for children), 1902; The Five Nations (poems, conclud ing with what proved Mr. Kipling's most universally known and popular poem, "Recessional," originally published in The Times on July 17, 1897, on the occasion of Queen Victoria's second jubilee), 1903; Traffics and Discoveries (collected stories), Puck of Pook's Hill (stories), 1906; Actions and Reactions (stories), 1909; Rewards and Fairies (1910, a companion volume to Puck of Pook's Hill) ; 24 poems contributed to a History of England (191I) for young people, in which he joined C. R. L.
Fletcher; The Irish Guards in the Great War (1925), the most notable of his war books; Debits and Credits (1926) ; and A Book of Words (1928), a collection of speeches and addresses delivered between 1906 and 1927. Of Kipling's longer narratives Kim is the most successful ; picaresque in design it gives a series of delight ful pictures of Indian life, and is a classic in its kind. In Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies Kipling sought to create for children a semi-historical mythology of the English country-side; this patriotism was to be rooted in the sense of the history of the land beneath their feet, in the "instinct of inherited continu ity," to use a phrase from one of his addresses. But everything he wrote, even to a farcical extravaganza inspired by his enthusi asm for the motor-car, breathed the meteoric energy that was the nature of the man. A vigorous and unconventional poet, a pioneer in the modern phase of literary Imperialism, and one of the rare masters in English prose of the art of the short story, Kipling had already by the opening of the 20th century won a conspicu ous place which was recognized by the award of the Nobel prize for literature in 1907. He died in London, Jan. 18, 1936.