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-third 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. Thirty-first Thousand.
BLACK AND WHITE.—“Life’s Handicap contains much of the best work hitherto accomplished by the author, and, taken as a whole, is a complete advance upon its predecessors.”
MANY INVENTIONS. Twenty-eighth Thousand.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—“The completest book that Mr. Kipling has yet given us in workmanship, the weightiest and most humane in breadth of view.... It can only be regarded as a fresh landmark in the progression of his genius.”
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. Rewritten and considerably enlarged. Thirty-third Thousand.
ACADEMY.—“Whatever else be true of Mr. Kipling, it is the first truth about him that he has power, real intrinsic power.... Mr. Kipling’s work has innumerable good qualities.”
WEE WILLIE WINKIE, and other Stories.