_BLACK AND WHITE._--"An admirable specimen of the genus 'light story.' Miss Eleanor C. Price tells her story with a gay good humour which is infectious. We are not asked to think, only to allow ourselves to be interested and amused.... We feel grateful to Miss Price for her bright well-written book. The girl of the mysterious advertisement is a charming character." _MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"A decidedly attractive little book, with a pleasing atmosphere of green fields, orchards, and wild-rose hedges." Crown 8vo. 6s. _Forty-third Thousand_ THE DAY'S WORK By RUDYARD KIPLING CONTENTS THE BRIDGEBUILDERS--A WALKING DELEGATE--THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF--THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS---THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA--WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR--007--THE MALTESE CAT--BREAD UPON THE WATERS--AN ERROR OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION--MY SUNDAY AT HOME--THE BRUSHWOOD BOY _ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE._--"This new batch of Mr. Kipling's short stories is splendid work. Among the thirteen there are included at least five of his very finest.... Speaking for ourselves, we have read _The Day's Work_ with more pleasure than we have derived from anything of Mr. Kipling's since the _Jungle Book_.... It is in the Findlaysons, and the Scotts, and the Cottars, and the 'Williams,' that Mr. Kipling's true greatness lies. These are creations that make one feel pleased and proud that we are also English. What greater honour could there be to an English writer?" _TIMES._--"The book, take it altogether, will add to Mr. Kipling's high reputation both on land and by sea." _DAILY NEWS._--"They have all his strength." _DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"If _The Day's Work_ will not add to the author's reputation in this kind of work, which, indeed, might be difficult, it at all events will not detract from it. There is no lack of spirit and power; the same easy mastery of technical details; the same broad sympathy with the English-speaking race, wherever their life-tasks may lie. The style is throughout Kipling's own--terse, nervous, often rugged, always direct and workmanlike, the true reflection of Mr. Kipling's own genius." _MORNING POST._--"The book is so varied, so full of colour and life from end to end, that few who read the first two or three stories will lay it down till they have read the last." _PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"There are the same masterful grip and wielding of words that are almost surprised to find themselves meaning so much; the same buoyant joy in men who 'do' things." _ACADEMY._--"With sure instinct he labels the volume _The Day's Work_. That is just what these tales are--the day's work of a great imaginative and observant writer, of a master craftsman who, when he has no _magnum opus_ on hand, rummages in drawers, peers into cupboards, for notions noted and not forgotten, for beginnings laid aside to be finished in their proper season."