Note: First published June 1904 in London daily The Morning Post. The 1904 collection Traffics and Discoveries contains this story in two chapters, so to speak, as Part I and Part II (UK and US 1st eds. viewed online) Presumably it was originally published thus. SFE3 reports "15-18 June 1904", which implies a serial in two to four issues of the newspaper.

Synopsis: 'Later tales include [... 2nd in a list of 6] "The Army of a Dream" (15-18 June 1904 Morning Post; in Traffics and Discoveries, coll 1904), a Utopian vision of Near-Future militarized England in which – prefiguring the society of Robert A Heinlein's Starship Troopers (October-November 1959 F&SF as "Starship Soldier"; 1959) – voting rights and other social privileges must be earned by volunteer service ...' (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute and David Langford In this fable, "Mr. Kipling rides his hobby of a citizen soldiery embracing potentially the entire male population of the British Islands." --The Critic, Nov 1904, p. 172, "The Same Old Kipling" by J.B.G.