Whatever may be the final judgment of the world concerning Kipling's claim to literary genius, the young student may rest assured that there is no one in England who can compare with this strenuous and versatile writer. He is original and powerful, interesting and realistic. He is a lover of the men who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces and a despiser of "flannelled fools." He lacks the day-dreams of Stevenson and preaches from every housetop the gospel of virile, acting morality. Many of his readers have criticised adversely his spiritual teachings, because of the furious energy with which he denounces an apathetic religion and eulogizes the person who works with all his might, day after day, for the highest he knows and never fears the day of death and judgment. GENERAL REFERENCES _The Book of the Short Story_, Alexander Jessup. _The Short Story in English_, Henry Seidel Canby. _Bibliography of Kipling's Works_, Eugene P, Saxton. "Contradictory Elements in Rudyard Kipling," _Current Literature_, 44: 274. "Where Kipling Stands," _Bookman_, 29: 120-122. "Are there two Kiplings?" _Cosmopolitan_, 31: 653-660. "Literary Style of Kipling," _Lippincott_, 73: 99-103. COLLATERAL READINGS _The Man Who Would be King_, Rudyard Kipling. _William the Conqueror_, Rudyard Kipling. _Phantom Rickshaw_, Rudyard Kipling. _The Finest Story in the World_, Rudyard Kipling. _Under the Deodars_, Rudyard Kipling. _An Habitation Enforced_, Rudyard Kipling. _Plain Tales from the Hills_, Rudyard Kipling. _The Light that Failed_, Rudyard Kipling. _Wee Willie Winkie_, Rudyard Kipling. _Baa Baa Black Sheep_, Rudyard Kipling. _Captains Courageous_, Rudyard Kipling. _The Jungle Books_, Rudyard Kipling. _They_, Rudyard Kipling. _The Brushwood Boy_, Rudyard Kipling. _Christ in Flanders_, Honoré de Balzac. _The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock_, Thomas Nelson Page. _A New England Nun_, Mary Wilkins Freeman. _Outcasts of Poker Flat_, Bret Harte. _The Siege of Berlin_, Alphonse Dadoed. _The Prisoner of Assiout_, Grant Allen. _A Terribly Strange Bed_, Wilkie Collins. _The Prisoners_, Guy de Maupassant. _Mr. Isaacs_, F. Marion Crawford. _Where Love Is, There God Is Also_, Leo Tolstoi. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER [1] _By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)_ Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. —De Béranger.[2]