=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.” ----------------------- LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Novels of Native Indian Life ----------------------- _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 has surely surpassed himself. In his faculty for getting inside the Eastern mind and showing its queer workings Mr. Kipling stands alone.” ----------------------- An Anglo-Indian Novel by Alice M. Kipling