Since the Nobel prize was received, Kipling has written with less frequency and more unevenness of form. Some of the prose and verse reflects the war, like “Fringes of the Fleet,” “Sea Warfare,” “France,” and the “History of the Irish Guards.” Not soon forgotten will be that tribute to Roosevelt, tender and virile, “Great-Heart” (1919). In the collected poems, _The Years Between_, there are challenging war poems, “For All We Have and Are,” an appeal to England, and “The Choice, or The American Spirit Speaks,” for the United States. The elegy to “Lord Roberts,” less militant in tone, is true poetry in emotion and measure. Some stanzas are touched by irony, and have the sermonic quality which is characteristic--“The Sons of Martha,” “En-Dor” and “Russia to the Pacifists.” The juvenile of 1923, _Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls_ (or _for Scouts and Scoutmasters_) is uneven in quality but it has two dramatic sketches. _Eyes of Asia_, portraits of Europeans as seen by Oriental eyes, is more comparable to mediocre pages in _Actions and Reactions_ than it is to the more vital stories in _Plain Tales_ and _The Day’s Work_. “Fumes of the Heart” is the best of these later tales. Mr. Kipling is reaping honors in educational and civic life. His reserve, which is sometimes rated as coldness, keeps him far from the limelight of publicity. He cannot be persuaded to “come to America” as lecturer or reader, in the train of many of his compatriots of far less worth or fame. In his Sussex home, with family and a few friends about him, he is a delightful _raconteur_ or conversationalist upon topics of world-wide politics. He is more amused than angered at some of the petty criticisms upon his writing, like the recent attack upon “Mandalay” for its anachronisms in geography, not unlike the charges against Shakespeare in _The Tempest_ and _The Winter’s Tale_. Arnold Bennett, in _Books and Persons_,[63] has some comments upon Kipling’s flaws in _Actions and Reactions_ and his “prejudices and clayey ideals,” but he ends with tribute to him as a painstaking artist, devoted to his craft.