MAUGHAM’S CHOICE OF KIPLING’S BEST (324 pp.)—Doubleday ($3.95). “The star of the hour,” said Henry James in 1890, when Rudyard Kipling was only 24. “Too clever to live,” said Robert Louis Stevenson.
How fortunate we are! After eighty-five years of assorted errors and miseries, the human race has emerged into sunlit uplands. There is no major war, nor any visible prospect of any. Utopian socialism ...