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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20587, 28 November 1936, Page 12 (Supplement)

Replies from all over the Empire have been received in response to the appeal issued by the Imperial Service College, Windsor, for funds for a memorial to Rudyard Kipling. Kipling was at the United Services College. Westward Ho, Devon, from 1878 to 1882. It was this school which he so vividly pictured in “Stalky and C 0.,” and in a letter which he wrote not long before his death Kipling expressed his pleasure that the traditions of his old school were being so well maintained by the college at Windsor. It is hoped to perpetuate his memory by erecting a library or group of buildings containing a library, at the college, and the appeal was Issued over signatures of the Earl of Athlone (chairman of governors), the Prime Minister, General Godley (a member of the board), Lieutenant-general A. Hepworth (president of O.UH.C. Society), and Major-General L. C. Dunsterville (president of the Kipling Society). The appeal has created great interest in India, (where the Civil and Military Gazette’ is raising contributions. The head master. Mr L. deO. Tollemache, has also received many contributions from New Zealand. Canada, and other parts of the Empire as well as from the United States.

The following is from the prospectus issued by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, publisher of a new qarterly, of which the first number was to appear this month: “Germany,” Holderlin wrote, “is the heart of the nations,” and what was true 100 years ago holds good to-day. In recent years interest in Germany, whether friendly or hostile, has been unbounded, and the time seems ripe for a journal which will seek to keep in touch with the spiritual, intellectual, and artistic ideals of a people so obviously destined by character, numbers, and situation to take a leading part in the affairs of the world. To meet this need it has been decided to publish a journal entitled “German Life and Letters.” designed to appeal to the educated general public as well as the scholar by presenting the varied aspects of German life as reflected in history, literature, music, and art. both in Germany itself and in .the other countries where German is spoken. “German Life and Letters” will endeavour dispassionately and objectively to describe and interpret the changing phases of modem Germany, while at the same time exploring the past from which it has grown. It will present Germany as a vital centre of European culture, with special reference to the last 150 years, strictly avoiding all propaganda, but frankly attempting through greater knowledge to reach a better understanding.