THIS BOOK is written for all little lads and lasses, but especially for the former, since it is the true-quite true-story of a little lad who lived to be, perhaps, the greatest king this world has ever seen.  It is a strange, wild tale this of the adventures of Prince Akbar among the snowy mountains between Kandahar and Kabul, and though the names may be a bit of a puzzle at first, as they will have to be learned by and bye in geography and history lessons, it might be as well to get familiar with them in a story-book; though, indeed, as everybody in it except Roy the Rajput, Meroo the cook boy; Tumbu, the dog; and Down, the cat (and these four may have been true, you know, though they have not been remembered) really lived, I don't know whether this book oughtn't to be considered real history, and therefore    A LESSON BOOK:    "Anyhow, I hope you won't find it dull."    STORIES:  FAREWELL   THE FIRST VICTORY   THE ROYAL UMBRELLA   TUMBU-DOWN   ON THE ROAD   AT COURT   WINTER  DOWN'S STRATAGEM  SPRING   THE NIGHT OF RECORD   A WINTER MARCH  SNOW AND ICE   OVER THE PASS   IN THE VALLEY  DEAREST-LADY  CRUEL BROTHER KUMRAN  IMPRISONMENT  THE GARDEN OF GAMES  BETWIXT CUP AND LIP  ESCAPED  DAWN

Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 12 April 1929) was a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny.