He had already proved his ability to write for children and adolescents. Few books among juveniles surpass, in visualization and imaginative skill, _The Jungle Books_, _Just So Stories_, and that pioneer sea tale that has gained favor with the years, _Captains Courageous_. In the years that followed his serious illness, he wrote tales of clever inventiveness collected in _Puck of Pook’s Hill_, _Rewards and Fairies_, and _Kim_. To this period belong, also, many of the poems collected in the volume, _The Five Nations_. Who will say that there was decadence of literary power, any lapse of dramatic skill, in that story of _Kim_, or Kimball O’Hara, the orphan boy of Lahore? The boys of to-day--and normal girls--have wholesome “thrills” at this lad’s story, his pilgrimages over India with the Tibetan lama, and his final adoption by the regiment to which his father had belonged. Humor, adventure, vivid photographs of places and people--all are mingled in this tale. When it appeared in the London edition of 1901, the father of Kipling contributed some of the striking illustrations. _The Five Nations_ of this later period gave permanence in form to such vital poems as “White Horses,” “Our Lady of the Snows” (the beautiful ode to Canada), “The Dykes,” “The Feet of the Young Men,” “Boots,” “The Explorer,” and “The Recessional.” “Buddha at Kamakura,” which first appeared in _Kim_, should be listed in this collection. Are there here traces of lapse in form or spontaneity compared with the earlier, less restrained verses in _Departmental Ditties_ or _Barrack-Room Ballads_? In _Traffics and Discoveries_, published in 1904, are found such literary achievements as “Wireless,” “They,” and “The Army of a Dream.” Kipling had shown his keen observation, humor, and appreciation of varied beauties of Nature in his volumes of travel-sketches and letters, _From Sea to Sea_ and _Letters of Travel_. “In Sight of Monadnock” contains a brief, fine description of that distant New Hampshire peak. With his long experience in travel and adjustment to diverse conditions of life, Kipling has ever been a poet of home, national and domestic. His poem, “Sussex,” written in 1902, has deep feeling as well as notable lines of description and a rhythmic swing.