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The Daily Chronicle.—'Judge it by what canons of criticism you will the book is a work of art The story is simple enough, but it is as lifelike as anything in modern fiction. The people speak and act as people do act and speak. There is not a false note throughout. Mrs. Steel draws children as none but a master-hand can draw.'

The Westminster Gazette.—'Far and away above the average of novels, and one of those books which no reader should miss.'

The Daily News.—'The book is written with distinction. It is moving, picturesque, the character drawing is sensitive and strong.'

Black and White.—'It reveals keen sympathy with nature and clever portraiture, and it possesses many passages both humorous and pathetic.'

The Academy.—'Nothing here ought to be neglected, for there is in most places something profitable for not too obtrusive exhortation, and almost everywhere something for enjoyment.'

The Glasgow Herald.—'A clever book which should tend to widen Mrs. Steel's circle among the reading public.'

The Scotsman.—'They have a rich imaginative colour always.'

The Manchester Guardian.—'Much sympathy with humanity however dark the skin, and a delicate touch in narrative, raise Mrs. F. A. Steel's Indian Stories into a high rank. There is a pathos in them not common among Anglo-Indian story-tellers.'

The Saturday Review.—'It throbs with the vigour of real creative power.'

The Spectator.—'It is remarkably clever; it is written in a style which has ease, dignity, grace, and quick responsiveness to the demands of the theme; it has passages of arresting power and fine reticent pathos; and it displays a quick eye for character and a power of depicting it with both force and subtlety.'

The Westminster Gazette.—'A most faithful, vivid impression of Indian life.'

The Daily Telegraph.—' A singularly powerful and fascinating story.'