Forty thousand (six shilling) copies of Kipling's 'The Day's Work' were sold in Great Brijain alone in ten days. This, of course, is a record, and a big enough one to make even Dickens and Thackeray turn' in their graves. Furthermore, it has pleased the 'alumni' of letters to get up a squabble over the book. Some.of the veteran reviewers profess themselves disappointed in seven out of the thirteen tales, and deplore Kipling's growing craze for superabundant technical detail. This criticism has brought out. the 'Kiplingomaniacs' in wrath, prominent amongst, them being Mr George Wyndham and Mr W. E. Henley. The latter devotes a flamboyant column in his paper to 'enthusing' over 'The Brushwood Boy." As no one has had anything but praise for this tale and 'The Bridge Builders,' Mr Henley's attitude is somewhat absurd. The stories attacked were, of course, the steamer and railroad series, and even he can't gush over them, clever as they admittedly are.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 5, 7 January 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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