=Black and White.=--‘It reveals keen sympathy with nature and clever portraiture, and it possesses many passages both humorous and pathetic.’
=The Academy.=--‘Nothing here ought to be neglected, for there is in most places something profitable for not too obtrusive exhortation, and almost everywhere something for enjoyment.’
=The Glasgow Herald.=--‘A clever book which should tend to widen Mrs. Steel’s circle among the reading public.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘They have a rich imaginative colour always.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘Much sympathy with humanity however dark the skin, and a delicate touch in narrative, raise Mrs. F. A. Steel’s Indian Stories into a high rank. There is a pathos in them not common among Anglo-Indian story-tellers.’
=The Saturday Review.=--‘It throbs with the vigour of real creative power.’
=The Spectator.=--‘It is remarkably clever; it is written in a style which has ease, dignity, grace, and quick responsiveness to the demands of the theme; it has passages of arresting power and fine reticent pathos; and it displays a quick eye for character and a power of depicting it with both force and subtlety.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘A most faithful, vivid impression of Indian life.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘A singularly powerful and fascinating story.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
=The Morning Post.=--‘Mr. Crane never wrote anything more vivid than the story in which Maggie takes the heroine’s part. It is as admirable in its own field as _The Red Badge of Courage_ in another.’
=The Illustrated London News.=--‘Stephen Crane knew the Bowery very well, and in these two stories its characteristics come out with the realism of Mr. Arthur Morrison’s studies of the East End. Both are grim and powerful sketches.’
(The Red Badge of Courage, and The Little Regiment.)
=Truth.=--‘The pictures themselves are certainly wonderful.... So fine a book as Mr. Stephen Crane’s _Pictures of War_ is not to be judged pedantically.’
=The Daily Graphic.=--’ ... A second reading leaves one with no whit diminished opinion of their extraordinary power. Stories they are not really, but as vivid war pictures they have scarcely been equalled.... One cannot recall any book which conveys to the outsider more clearly what war means to the fighters than this collection of brilliant pictures.’