Kipling, RUDYARD

b. 1865. Anglo-Indian novelist and poet, now resident in the U. S. The Light that Failed, 1890; The Naulakha (with W. Bales tier), 1892. In his own peculiar field, short stories of life in India, as Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888, and Soldiers Three, 1889, he has won unparalleled succe . For delineations of animal life, The Jungle Book, 1894, stands alone in literature.-His father, JOHN LOCK WOOD, pub. Beast and Man in India, 1893.