Mrs. Oliphant

“ Altogether it is a capital story, full of wild adventure and startling incidents, and told with a genuine simplicity and quiet appearance of truth, as if the writer were really drawing upon his memory rather than his imagination. ”

“ 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.
PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. Forty-fifth Thousand.
SATURDAY REVIEW.—"Mr. Kipling knows and appreciates the English in India, and is a born story-teller and a man of humour into the bargain.... It would be hard to find better reading."
LIFE'S HANDICAP. Being Stories of Mine Own People. ”

“ DAILY CHRONICLE.—"We do not forget Robbery under Arms or any of its various successors, when we say that Rolf Boldrewood has never done anything so good as A Modern Buccaneer. It is good, too, in a manner which is for the author a new one."
THE MINER'S RIGHT. (Also 8vo. Sewed, 6d.)
A TALE OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD-FIELDS.
WORLD.—"Full of good passages, passages abounding in vivacity, in the colour and play of life.... ”