1910 - Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. "A Diversity of Creatures" intersperses poetry with short stories. The Contents include: As Easy as A.B.C.; MacDonough's Song; Friendly Brook; The Land; In the Same Boat; 'Helen all Alone'; The Honors of War; The Children; The Dog Hervey; The Comforters; The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat; The Press; In the Presence; Jobson's Amen; Regulus; A Translation; The Edge of the Evening; Rebirth; The Horse Marines; The Legend of Mirth; My Son's Wife; The Floods; The Fabulists; The Vortex; The Song of Seven Cities; 'Swept and Garnished'; Mary Postgate; and The Beginnings. "Letters of Travel" contains: From Tideway to Tideway (1892)- In Sight of Monadnock; Across a Continent; The Edge of the East; Our Overseas Men; Some Earthquakes; Half-a-Dozen Pictures; Captains Courageous; On One Side Only; Leaves from a Winter Note-Book; Letters to the Family (1908)-The Road to Quebec; A People at Home; Cities and Spaces; Newspapers and Democracy; Labor; The Fortunate Towns; Mountains and the Pacific; A Conclusion; Egypt of the Magicians (1914)-Sea Travel; A Return to the East; A Serpent of Old Nile; Up the River; Dead Kings; The Face of the Desert; and The Riddle of the Empire.