[Jan 1st 2013] Publication history The story was first published in Nash's Magazine, Pall Mall and Metropolitan Magazine in April 1917, and subsequently collected in A Diversity of Creatures (1917). It was later included in The Complete Stalky & Co. (1929). In the Sussex Edition it is collected in volume XVII with the other 'Stalky' stories, and not in volume IX with A Diversity of Creatures. Similarly, in the Burwash Edition it is with the other 'Stalky' stories in volume XIV. The story ![]() At the end of the tale Stalky calls Winton 'Regulus', after the Roman general who, in the ode, went bravely to his death at the hands of his enemies. As King observes, some of Horace's message seemed to have gone home. See also "Kipling, Horace, and literary parenthood" by Harry Ricketts. Also an article by Dr T J Leary in the journal Greece & Rome (Vol. 55, No. 2, published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association) entitled "Kipling, Stalky, Regulus & Co.: A Reading of Horace Odes 3.5." |