First edition, ‘reprinted in chief from the Week’s News’. Under the Deodars, No. 4 in Wheeler’s Indian Railway Library, contains six stories from Kipling’s time as a journalist, dealing with ‘things that are not pretty and uglinesses that hurt’. Adultery is a common theme, though Kipling assures his readers that ‘India is not entirely inhabited by men and women playing tennis with the Seventh Commandment’.

Stewart 46; Livingston 37.

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