The child Kunwar, his mother, the forsaken Zulu queen, the gipsy with her wicked arts, are pictures of Indian life, which even Mr. The Bookman.-‘The real interest of the book is in the life behind the curtains of the Maharajah’s palace. It is enough to say that the plotting of that most beautiful and most wicked gipsy, Sitabhai is interesting that Sitabhai is well created and that the chapter which describes her secret meeting with Tarvin is probably the finest and the most impressive in the book.’

Kipling that one must go for the strange people and incidents of the royal household at Rhatore.

The Speaker.-‘In the presentation of Rhatore there is something of the old Kiplingesque glamour it is to the pages of Mr. Kipling’s own, and some of the Indian chapters are in his best style.’ The Maharajah, the rival queens, the pomp and peril of Rhatore, are clearly Mr. The interest is not only sustained throughout, it is at times breathless. The design is a bold one, and it has been boldly carried out. Wonderful freshness and realism to the story. The design is admirable-to bring into violent contrast and opposition the widely differing forces of the Old World and the New-and while, of course, it could have been done without the use of Americanese, yet that gives a The Glasgow Herald.-‘An entrancing story beyond doubt. The dramatic train of incident, the climax of which is certainly the interview between Sitabhai and Tarvin, the alternate crudeness and ferocity of the girl-queen, the susceptibility of the full-blooded American, hardly kept in subjection by his alertness and keen eye to business, the anxious eunuch waiting in the distance with the horses, and fretting as the stars grow paler and paler, the cough of the tiger slinking home at the dawn after a fruitless night’s hunt-the whole forms a scene not easily effaced from the memory.’ The Times.-‘A happy idea, well adapted to utilize the respective experience of the joint authors. and the story of the exodus from the hospital will rank among the best passages in modern fiction.’ Whoever reads this novel will find much of it hard to forget. There are descriptions scattered through its pages which no one but Mr. The Academy.-‘ The Naulahka contains passages of great merit. In his faculty for getting inside the Eastern mind and showing its queer workings Mr. Kipling who can make his readers taste and smell, as well as see and hear, the East and in this book (if we except the description of Tarvin’s adventures in the deserted city of Gunvaur, which is perhaps less clear-cut than usual) he has surely surpassed himself.

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