Achmed Abdullah

“ From the moment when the heroine leaps from the burning stage into the protection of a stranger's outstretched arms, to the time when the latter stands a bulwark between her and a remorseless pursuer bent on again enslaving her, love is the safety curtain that shuts out the perils that threaten to overwhelm. ”

“ He has given us its humor, its pathos, and its inimitable picturesqueness, without caricature, and without malice, and he has so admirably balanced matter and manner that the reader never thinks that he is telling the story for the sake of the dialect, or that he is using the dialect for the sake of the story. ”

“ The dialect would be perfect if there were no stories at all, and the stories would be irresistibly entertaining if there were no dialect at all."
G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York London
Blue Aloes
By
Cynthia Stockley
Author of "Poppy," "The Claw," "Wild Honey," etc.
No writer can so unfailingly summons and materialize the spirit of the weird, mysterious South Africa as can Cynthia Stockley. She is a favored medium through whom the great Dark Continent its tales unfolds. ”