I have found a copy of Robert Escarpit's Rudyard Kipling
Servitude et grandeur (not "grandes" as Seymour Smith, who quotes him p 236
repeatedly miswrites) impériales [RK : imperial servitude and greatness , a copy
of Vigny's well known title]. Escarpit was professor of Engllish litterature at
the University of Bordeaux. The book is not without merit, including several
pages on the Kipling Society.
The purpose of my present message is to request assistance
from members : on p 63 and 64, Escarpit quotes, in translation, 12 lines of a
tale that he locates in Plain Tales from the Hills, the title of which is : The
Last Relief ; this is the list of all the civil service men who were posted in
succession at "Myndonie" died or fell ill and were replaced. Now The Last Relief
is NOT to be found in recent editions of PTFTP, neither in Mason's list. Has
someone an explanation ?
Max Rives
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