Kipling, Rudyard

Dick Heldar, a young painter, goes to Soudan with an expedition and returns to London on the verge of blindness. He applies himself with zeal to the completion of 'Melancholia,' his masterpiece, and loses his sight and his beloved.

A collection of nine stories and nine songs about Mowgli the man cub and his beloved jungle brothers. Among them Akela, the wolf pack leader, Shere Khan, the tiger, Baloo the sleepy old brown bear, and Bagheera the panther.