PREFACE 9
PREFACE TO THE PELICAN EDITION 11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 13
CHRONOLOGY 15
A Fragment 17
PROLOGUE 19
GENEALOGY-KIPLINGS AND MACDONALDS 27
The Puzzler 29
1 KIPLINGS AND MACDONALDS 31
From The City of Sleep 39
2 CHILDHOOD：BOMBAY AND SOUTHSEA (1865-77) 41
From A School Song 53
3 PUBLIC SCHOOL (1878-82) 55
From The New Knighthood 77
4 LAHORE AND SIMLA (1882-7) 79
From Jobson＇s Amen 125
5 SIMLA AND ALLAHABAD (1887-9) 127
From The Song of the Banjo 161
6 A RETURN TO LONDON (1889) 163
From In the Neolithic Age 195
7 KIPLING IN LONDON (1890-91) 197
From The Miracles 219
8 KIPLING AND THE BALESTIERS (1891-2) 221
From The Fires 247
9 A HOME IN VERMONT (1892-6) 249
From The Second Voyage 295
10 AT TORQUAY (1896-7) 297
From A Song of the English 311
11 THE WHITE MAN＇S BURDEN (1897-8) 313
From Merrow Down 341
12 LAST VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES (1898-9) 343
From The Settler 357
13 THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR (1899-1902) 359
＇When ＇Omer smote ＇is blooming lyre＇ 391
14 KIPLING AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 393
From Sir Richard＇s Song 429
15 A HOME IN SUSSEX (1902-8) 431
From The Fabulists 457
16 AT ＇BATEMAN＇S＇(1908-14) 459
My Boy Jack 495
17 THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-18) 497
A Charm 521
18 AFTER THE WAR (1919-24) 523
The Storm Cone 537
19 THE LAST PHASE OF HIS WORK 539
Non Nobis Domine 557
20 THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE (1924-36) 559
EPILOGUE：Memoir by Mrs George Bambridge 587
SOURCES 598
NOTES 601
GENERAL INDEX 607
INDEX OF KIPLING＇S WORKS 629