[3] 47:1 Hussars. Light-horse troopers armed with sabre and carbine. [4] 47:1 Peshawur. City in British India. [5] 47:7 Tyrones. From a county in Ireland by this name. [6] 47:26 Burmah. In southeastern Asia. Part of the British Empire. [7] 47:27 Irrawaddy. Chief river of Burma. [8] 48:27 Sotnia. Company of the Cossacks. [9] 50:14 rupee. Indian coin worth about forty-eight cents. [10] 50:21 vendettas. Private blood-feuds. [11] 51:14 Punjab. Country of five rivers, tributaries of the Indus. [12] 81:26 Sambhur. A rusine deer found in India. [13] 51:26 nilghai. Antelope with hind legs shorter than its fore-legs. [14] 54:9 expurgated. Purified. [15] 57:23 renegade. One who deserts his faith. [16] 58:26 candelabrum. Stand supporting several lamps. [17] 61:3 urbanely. Politely. [18] 63:2 Chepany. Town in Siberia. [19] 63:4 Zhigansk. Town in Siberia. [20] 63:4 Irkutsk. Province and city in Siberia. [21] 63:17 Sebastopol. Seaport in Russia. [22] 65:26 Au revoir. Till we meet again. [23] 66:6 unmitigated. As bad as can be. BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES _Essays on Modern Novelists_, William Lyon Phelps. _A Kipling Primer_, Knowles. _Rudyard Kipling_, Richard Le Galliene. "Kipling to French Eyes," _Bookman_, 26: 584. "Life of Kipling," _Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Life of Kipling," _The Universal Encyclopedia_. BIOGRAPHY Rudyard Kipling, the most vigorous, versatile, and highly endowed of the present-day writers of fiction, was born in Bombay, India, December 30, 1865. His place of birth and extensive travelling make him more Anglo-Saxon than British. His father was for many years connected with the schools of art at Bombay and Lahore in India. His mother, Alice MacDonald, was the daughter of a Methodist clergyman. Kipling was brought to England when he was five years old to be educated. While in college at Westward Ho he edited the _College Chronicle_. For this paper he contributed regularly, poetry and stories. After his school days and on his return to India, he served on the editorial staff of the Lahore _Civil and Military Gazette_ from 1882 to 1887, and was assistant editor of the _Pioneer_ at Allahabad from 1887 to 1889. Kipling has travelled extensively. He is at home in India, China, Japan, Africa, Australia, England, and America. The odd part about his realistic observations, however, is that his notes, whether written about California or India, are often repudiated by the people whom he has visited. After visiting England and the United States in a vain effort to find a publisher for his writings, he returned to India and published in the _Pioneer_ his _American Notes_, which were immediately reproduced in book form in New York in 1891.