possessing something more than mere charm. Stories made rich with beauty
and colour, strong with the strength of truth, and pathetic with the intimate
pathos which grows only from the heart. All the mystery and the frankness
the simplicity and the complexity of Indian life are here in a glowing setting
of brilliant Oriental hues. A book to read and a book to buy. A book which
no one but Mrs. Steel could have given us, a book which all persons of leisure
should read, and for which all persons of taste will be grateful.”
FROM THE FIVE RIVERS
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
IMia IS thoroughly alive, and writers, great and small, vie in ministering to it.
They are the more notable as being the work of a woman. Mrs. Steel has
widently 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 Athenffium.— “They possess this great merit, that they reflect the
habits, modes of life, and ideas of the middle and lower classes of the popula-
tion of Northern India better than do systematic and more pretentious works.”
The Globe.— “She puts before us the natives of our Empire in the East
they live and move and speak, with their pitiful superstitions, their strange
fancies, their melancholy ignorance of what poses with us for knowledge and
f *^^o*-'bt of the new ways, the new laws, the new people.
Shah Sujah’s Mouse,’ the gem of the collection— a touching tale of un-
reasoning fidelity towards an English ‘ Sinny Baba ’—is a tiny bit of perfect
writing.” ‘
London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 Bedford Street, W.C.
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possessing something more than mere charm. Stories made rich with beauty and colour, strong with the strength of truth, and pathetic with the intimate pathos which grows only from the heart. All the mystery and the frankness the simplicity and the complexity of Indian life are here in a glowing setting of brilliant Oriental hues. A book to read and a book to buy. A book which no one but Mrs. Steel could have given us, a book which all persons of leisure should read, and for which all persons of taste will be grateful.”
FROM THE FIVE RIVERS
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 IMia IS thoroughly alive, and writers, great and small, vie in ministering to it. They are the more notable as being the work of a woman. Mrs. Steel has widently 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 Athenaeum.— “They possess this great merit, that they reflect the habits, modes of life, and ideas of the middle and lower classes of the population of Northern India better than do systematic and more pretentious works.” The Globe.— “She puts before us the natives of our Empire in the East they live and move and speak, with their pitiful superstitions, their strange fancies, their melancholy ignorance of what poses with us for knowledge and f *^^o*-'bt of the new ways, the new laws, the new people.
"Shah Sujah's Mouse," the gem of the collection— a touching tale of unreasoning fidelity towards an English "Sinny Baba"—is a tiny bit of perfect writing." ‘
London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 Bedford Street, W.C.
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r