Excerpt from Savindroog, or the Queen of the Jungle, Vol. 1 of 3: By Captain Rafter Of the very few other adventurers in the field of Oriental fiction it may be sufficient to say that, in spite of occasional talent, their attempts to incorporate the deep interest of Asiatic romance with the common place frivolity of the mere English novel have only produced an incongruous medley; which, like the mixture of oil paintings and water-colour drawings in an exhibition, 'must inevitably result in failure more especially when it displays the jaundiced colouring of European prejudices, or the still more objectionable ignorance of correct costume and dis tinctive character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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