WAR STORIES BY KIPLING.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10707, 13 July 1900, Page 5

WAR STORIES BY KIPLING.

To-morrow's issue of "The Press" will contain the first of a series of stories of the war in South Africa., written by Rudyard Kipling. Mr Kipling has already contributed some articles and sketches, hissed on his experiences at the Cape and Bloemfontein. to a number of jwpers in various parts of the world, and these show that his style I has lost nothing of the vigour and picturesquensss which has made him the most popular writer of the day. In tho series which will appear in our columns, and of which we have secured the copyright from the author, he deals brilliantly with various phases of the war. and places some of its features be/ore us in a manner unequalled by any of the war correspondents. The first story of the series, "The Way that He Took," tells of how a British officer picked up, from an African-born nurse, knowledge which stood him in good stead when subsequently he was in a position of-great pflril. The second, "Folly Bridge," gives a .sight of congested traffic on a railway line at a station beyond which no one is permitted to travel without a | pass; and the third, "The Outsider," depicts a young officer with an exaggerated idea of his own importance, who fails time -after time, until he finds himself ordered back to a sinecure in Capetown.