Essays which depict the fluctuations in Kipling's reputation.

Mr. Kipling's stories / Andrew Lang -- from The true function and value of criticism / Oscar Wilde -- The young Kipling / Henry James -- from The voice of the hooligan / Robert Buchanan -- P.C., X, 36 / Max Beerbohm -- Rudyard Kipling / Bonamy Dobrée -- A case for Kipling? / Boris Ford -- Rudyard Kipling / George Orwell -- Kipling / Lionel Trilling -- Kipling's world / C.S. Lewis -- The unfading genius of Rudyard Kipling / T.S. Eliot -- The structure and revenge in "Dayspring mishandled" -- / J.M.S. Thompkins -- On preparing to read Kipling / Randall Jarrell -- Stalky & Co. / Steven Marcus -- "Without the benefit of clergy" / Elliot L. Gilbert.