PREFACE

PREFACE TO THE PELICAN EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CHRONOLOGY

A Fragment

PROLOGUE

GENEALOGY-KIPLINGS AND MACDONALDS

The Puzzler

1 KIPLINGS AND MACDONALDS

From The City of Sleep

2 CHILDHOOD：BOMBAY AND SOUTHSEA (1865-77)

From A School Song

3 PUBLIC SCHOOL (1878-82)

From The New Knighthood

4 LAHORE AND SIMLA (1882-7)

From Jobson＇s Amen

5 SIMLA AND ALLAHABAD (1887-9)

From The Song of the Banjo

6 A RETURN TO LONDON (1889)

From In the Neolithic Age

7 KIPLING IN LONDON (1890-91)

From The Miracles

8 KIPLING AND THE BALESTIERS (1891-2)

From The Fires

9 A HOME IN VERMONT (1892-6)

From The Second Voyage

10 AT TORQUAY (1896-7)

From A Song of the English

11 THE WHITE MAN＇S BURDEN (1897-8)

From Merrow Down

12 LAST VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES (1898-9)

From The Settler

13 THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR (1899-1902)

＇When ＇Omer smote ＇is blooming lyre＇

14 KIPLING AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

From Sir Richard＇s Song

15 A HOME IN SUSSEX (1902-8)

From The Fabulists

16 AT ＇BATEMAN＇S＇(1908-14)

My Boy Jack

17 THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-18)

A Charm

18 AFTER THE WAR (1919-24)

The Storm Cone

19 THE LAST PHASE OF HIS WORK

Non Nobis Domine

20 THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE (1924-36)

EPILOGUE：Memoir by Mrs George Bambridge

SOURCES

NOTES

GENERAL INDEX

INDEX OF KIPLING＇S WORKS