Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII

'Professor Stiebel has presented Rider Haggard admirers with a valued gift, a Solomon's treasure chest filled with a well-chosen collection of sparkling bits and pieces about his life and works.' Rider Haggard Society Journal 'a very useful and well-done addition to Conrad studies. The notes and introductions by themselves make the volume worthwhile, and the selections themselves bring together in a single volume numerous commentaries, both more and less well known, that make for an easy reference for those researching Conrad in the context of his time and in the eyes of those who knew him.' The Conradian

• 1. Early Responses 2. Peer Reviews: Barrie, James and Gosse on Kipling 3. Kipling and the French 4. A Study and a Sketch 5. Th e Verse and the Stories 6. A Parody 7. Willa Cather 8. Joel Chandler Harris 9. A Testimonial from a Former Employer 10. Kipling and Technical Knowledge 11. From California and the Cape 12. Various European and American Perspectives 13. Kipling and Zangwill 14. Kipling and Omar Khayyam 15. Kipling in South Africa 16. Kim 17. William Archer on the Verse 18. 'I Know a Trick Worth Two of That' 19. The Political Kipling 20. Arnold Bennett on Actions and Reactions 21. 'A. E.' on Kipling and Ulster 22. Swinging Nervous English 23. Kipling as a Figure of the Nineties 24. The 'English' Kipling - 1: The New York Times on A Diversity of Creatures 25. Irish and Irish-American Accounts 26. 'A Keen Cosmopolitan' 27. The 'English' Kipling - 2; the Last Books 28. Kipling on Conrad