Cottage Folk

								

stand beside the really great women of fiction. The whole book has the
high seriousness which, until quite recently, few people dreamed of as
possible in an Anglo-Indian novel.”
=The Saturday Review.=—“Many novelists and spinners of tales have made
use of the Indian Mutiny, but Mrs. Steel leaves them all a long way
behind. Major Erlton and Alice Gissing challenge comparison with Rawdon
Crawley and Becky Sharp. ‘On the Face of the Waters’ is the best novel
of the Great Mutiny, and we are not likely to see its rival in our
time.”
=The St. James’s Gazette.=—“Of the familiar incidents of the early
Mutiny, how vivid and full of dramatic effect are the scenes as she
paints them! The tale has been often told, but never quite with Mrs.
Steel’s catholic sympathy with the native point of view. Her position is
now established as a writer of the truth and romance of India. She is a
fine writer, and she has written a fine novel about an epoch in our
history which Englishmen can never cease to weep over and to glory in.”



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                       LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
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                      Novels of Native Indian Life



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                       In One Volume, 6s. each



                          From the Five Rivers



                          BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
=The Times.=—“Time was when these sketches of native Punjabi society
would have been considered a curiosity in literature. They are
sufficiently remarkable, even in these days, when interest in the ‘dumb
millions’ of India is thoroughly alive, and writers, great and small,
vie in ministering to it. Mrs. Steel has evidently been brought into
close contact with the domestic life of all classes, Hindu and
Mahomedan, in city and village, and has steeped herself in their customs
and superstitions.... Mrs. Steel’s book is of exceptional merit and
freshness.”

                           The Potter’s Thumb



                          BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
=The Pall Mall Budget.=—“For this week the only novel worth mentioning
is Mrs. Steel’s ‘The Potter’s Thumb.’ Her admirable ‘From the Five
Rivers,’ since it dealt with native Indian life, was naturally compared
with Mr. Kipling’s stories. In ‘The Potter’s Thumb,’ the charm which
came from the freshness of them still remains. Almost every character is
convincing, and some of them excellent to a degree.”

                              The Naulahka



                BY RUDYARD KIPLING AND WOLCOTT BALESTIER
=The Athenæum.=—“There is no one but Mr. Kipling who can make his
readers taste and smell, as well as see and hear, the East; and in this
book (if we except the description of Tarvin’s adventures in the
deserted city of Gunvaur, which is perhaps less clear-cut than usual) he