The Daily Chronicle.— “A picture, glowing with colour, of the most
momentous and dramatic events in all our Empire’s later history. We have
read many stories having for their setting the lurid background of the Indian
Mutiny, but none that for fidelity to fact, for vivacity of imagination, for
masterly breadth of treatment, comes within half a dozen places of this.”
THE POTTER’S THUMB
The Globe. — “This is a brilliant story — a story that fascinates, tingling
with life, steeped in sympathy with all that is best and saddest.”
The Manchester Guardian. — “The impression left upon one after
reading ‘The Potter’s Thumb’ is that a new literary artist, of very great and
unusual gifts, has arisen. ... In short, Mrs. Steel must be congratulated upon
having achieved a very genuine and amply deserved success.”
The Glasgow Herald. — “A clever story which, in many respects,
brings India very near to its readers. The novel is certainly one interesting
alike to the Anglo-Indian and to those untravelled travellers who make their
only voyages in novelists’ romantic company.”
The Scotsman. — “It is a capital story, full of variety and movement,
which brings with great vividness before the reader one of the phases of
Anglo-Indian life. Mrs. Steel writes forcibly and sympathetically, and much
of the charm of the picture which she draws lies in the force with which she
brings out the contrast between the Asiatic and European world. ‘The
Potter’s Thumb ’ is very good reading, with its mingling of the tragedy and
comedy of life. Its evil woman par excellence ... is a finished study.”
London: WILLIAM IIEINEMANN, 21 Bedford Street, W.C.
NOVELS BY MRS. F. A. STEEL
In One Volume, price 6s. each
IN THE PERMANENT WAY
The Spectator.— “ While her only rival in this field of fiction is Mr.
Ippling, her work is marked by an even subtler appreciation of the Oriental
standpoint-both ethical and religious-a more exhaustive acquaintance with
native life m its domestic and indogr aspects, and a deeper sense of the moral
responsibih les attaching to our rule in the East. The book is profordlv
interesting from beginning to end.” ^ uuuiy
The World.-“ All Indian, all interesting, and all characteristic of the
writer s exceptional ability, knowledge d style. It is needless to say that
there is beauty in every one of these Uies. The author goes farther in the
interpretation to us of the mysterious East than any other uTiter.”
Literature.—" The tales of the fanaticism and humanity of Been Mahomed,
of the love and se^-sacrifice of Glory-of-Woman, of the superstition and self-
sacrifice of Ilajji-Raheen— are so many fragments of palpitating life taken
from the myriadfold existence of our Indian Empire,- to make us realise which
'/r / service to literature. Mrs. Steel’s sketches are founded, like
Mr. Kipling s, on the bed-rock of humani ' and they will live.”
The Pall Mall Gazette.-" A volume of charming stories and of stories
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The Daily Chronicle.— “A picture, glowing with colour, of the most momentous and dramatic events in all our Empire’s later history. We have read many stories having for their setting the lurid background of the Indian Mutiny, but none that for fidelity to fact, for vivacity of imagination, for masterly breadth of treatment, comes within half a dozen places of this.”
THE POTTER’S THUMB
The Globe. — “This is a brilliant story — a story that fascinates, tingling with life, steeped in sympathy with all that is best and saddest.”
The Manchester Guardian. — “The impression left upon one after reading ‘The Potter’s Thumb’ is that a new literary artist, of very great and unusual gifts, has arisen. ... In short, Mrs. Steel must be congratulated upon having achieved a very genuine and amply deserved success.”
The Glasgow Herald. — “A clever story which, in many respects, brings India very near to its readers. The novel is certainly one interesting alike to the Anglo-Indian and to those untravelled travellers who make their only voyages in novelists’ romantic company.”
The Scotsman. — “It is a capital story, full of variety and movement, which brings with great vividness before the reader one of the phases of Anglo-Indian life. Mrs. Steel writes forcibly and sympathetically, and much of the charm of the picture which she draws lies in the force with which she brings out the contrast between the Asiatic and European world. ‘The Potter’s Thumb ’ is very good reading, with its mingling of the tragedy and comedy of life. Its evil woman par excellence ... is a finished study.”
London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 Bedford Street, W.C.
NOVELS BY MRS. F. A. STEEL
In One Volume, price 6s. each
IN THE PERMANENT WAY
The Spectator.— " While her only rival in this field of fiction is Mr. Kipling, her work is marked by an even subtler appreciation of the Oriental standpoint-both ethical and religious-a more exhaustive acquaintance with native life m its domestic and indogr aspects, and a deeper sense of the moral responsibilities attaching to our rule in the East. The book is profoundly interesting from beginning to end."
The World.- " All Indian, all interesting, and all characteristic of the writer's exceptional ability, knowledge and style. It is needless to say that there is beauty in every one of these Uies. The author goes farther in the interpretation to us of the mysterious East than any other uTiter.”
Literature.—" The tales of the fanaticism and humanity of Been Mahomed, of the love and se^-sacrifice of Glory-of-Woman, of the superstition and selfsacrifice of Ilajji-Raheen— are so many fragments of palpitating life taken from the myriadfold existence of our Indian Empire,- to make us realise which '/r / service to literature. Mrs. Steel’s sketches are founded, like
Mr. Kipling s, on the bed-rock of humani ' and they will live.”
The Pall Mall Gazette.-" A volume of charming stories and of stories