JUNGLE TALES
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
“Mrs. Croker has already achieved a secure foothold in that temple of Anglo-Indianfiction whereof Mr. Rudyard Kipling is the high-priest. Her tales havea freshness and piquancy that are all their own.... So long as the author of‘Diana Barrington’ can produce works of the quality of ‘Village Tales andJungle Tragedies,’ she will assuredly not lack an audience.”—Athenæum.
“These tales are really original and excellent work. Mrs. Croker knows herIndia minutely, and proves her knowledge by a thousand delicate touches.”—Woman.
“Mrs. Croker writes of India as one knowing it well, and with deep sympathyfor the people among whom her time was spent, for the village sorrows andtragedies she was able to share. And in a considerable measure she succeeds inbringing home to readers at home the daily life of the East.”—Glasgow Herald.
“The stories are all written from a peculiar knowledge of the life theydescribe, and with a lively eye directed to its picturesqueness. They make aninteresting and entertaining book, which will be heartily enjoyed by every onewho reads it.”—Scotsman.
“The magician’s car of fiction next transports us to India, the magicianbeing that very competent and attractive writer Mrs. B. M. Croker. Her‘Village Tales’ are so good that they bracket her, in our judgment, with Mrs.F. A. Steel in comprehension of native Indian life and character.”—Times.
“Mrs. Croker makes the tales interesting and attractive, and her readysympathy with the Indian people, whom we are gradually coming to knowthrough the interpretation of some of our very best writers, strikes the readerafresh in this volume.”—World.
“Mrs. Croker shows once more a pretty talent, and her volume is replete withsentiment and romance. Her animal stories are really touching.”—Globe.
“Mrs. Croker’s volume is bright and readable. She has done good workalready in other fields; one expects a story of hers to be at any rate pleasantreading. These Indian tales are no exception.”—North British Mail.
“Mrs. Croker’s stories show her grasp of Indian character, and her realisationof the nameless charm which casts its glamour over the East and its peoples....‘Two Little Travellers,’ the last story, is exquisitely pathetic.”—Star.
“The stories are among the best of their kind. The author knows equallywell how to write of Anglo-Indian or purely native life.”—Morning Post.
“Mrs. Croker, who knows India exceptionally well, and is a practised writer,has handled this variety of subjects in a spirited and entertaining style.”—LiteraryWorld.
“A prettily got-up book containing seven Indian tales, well told, withabundant evidence of a thorough knowledge of the country and its people....There is not a dull line in the book, and in its perusal the desire for more keepsgrowing, even to the end of the last beautiful tale of Indian life.”—AsiaticQuarterly Review.
“Mrs. Croker’s seven little tales of native India are such very quick and easyreading that many persons will probably overlook the skill to which the result isdue. The authoress evidently knows both what a short story ought to be, andhow to make one.”—Graphic.
“Brilliant pictures of Indian life and manners. Mrs. Croker possesses thepen of a ready writer united to the imagination of a true ar