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This is the last of Kipling’s mock-diatribes against the Indian amateur (see 22 and 25 January 1887), written in response to a belated letter signed ‘Amateur’ in the CMG, 23 February. ‘Amateur’ complains of the ‘amateur critic’ — the ‘Lieutenant Quilldriver or Captain Steelslasher’ — as just as much a plague as the amateur singer. He then concedes that no amateur should ever sing ‘except for a charity’, giving Kipling his opportunity, and ends with a plea for simplicity and honesty — the part that Ananias says ‘I have forgotten’.
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Pinney, T. (1986). In Reply to the Amateur. In: Pinney, T. (eds) Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07710-6_39
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