The Mercy of the Lord
- ISBN-10
- 1533397023
- ISBN-13
- 9781533397027
- Series
- The Mercy of the Lord
- Pages
- 338
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-05-22
- Author
- Flora Steel
Description
Mrs. Steel's ever-delightful pen is here employed in giving us pictures as it were from her experience - stories of India, stories of the Highlands, quick impressions of modern life - each a rounded, well-defined tale, written with so sane a touch, with so pleasant a mind behind them that she makes the strongest appeal to her public. "Not even Kipling makes so strong an appeal to those who regard the contact of Orient and Occident with an intense interest which veers between fascination and quaking. In this volume are brief love stories, old traditions and studies of unguessed phases of native and Eurasian life." -The Congregationalist and Christian World "For twenty years now Flora Annie Steel's 'On the Face of the Waters' has been popular as a great story of fighting and mystery in the great Indian Mutiny. Her recent visit to America, when she was held up at Ellis Island, brought her name again to the fore, and now a new volume of short stories, 'The Mercy of the Lord,' are rather timely, dealing as they do with the English army and the quiet heroism of the men who keep the Empire's frontier in India." -The Bookman "The author has a rare gift for descriptive romance and she knows the Orient from along years of personal associations. This is a tale of fighting men, the soldier, the engineer and the native, always with its colorful background." -The Bookseller
