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A correspondent has written a 'Letter to the Editor' of the Daily Telegraph, quoting Kipling, in respect of the recent tragic bridge collapse at Genoa, in Italy, as follows: "The news of the shockig failure of the bridge in Genoa brings to mind the poem /Hymn of Breakin//g Strai//n/.composed by Rudyard Kipling in 1935, the first verse of which reads /THE careful text-books measure (Let all who build beware!) The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, 'The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. /Not on the Stuff—the Man! As so often, Kipling hits the nail on the head. /(signed) /George Lamb. See our notes by John Radcliffe and John McGivering in the New Reader's Guide. /Alastair Wilson/ // ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the RUDYARD-KIPLING list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=RUDYARD-KIPLING&A=1