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Title: For Fortune and Glory
A Story of the Soudan War

Author: Lewis Hough

Illustrator: Walter Paget

Release Date: April 18, 2007 [EBook #21136]

Language: English

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For Fortune and Glory
A Story of the Soudan War

By Lewis Hough
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We were a little nervous to know how Lewis Hough got on writing a book
with such a very different setting to his masterly "Doctor Jolliffe's
Boys." In fact the story opens in a boarding school (the British Public
School) called Harton. This is probably meant to be a word based on
"Eton" and another school that has an annual cricket match with Eton,
called "Harrow". In fact there is plenty of internal evidence that it
really is Eton, with the dropping of local slang terms only in use at
that school.

Before I knew the story I was also nervous about the title. What could
Fortune possibly have to do with the Soudan War? What actually happened
was that a certain Will had been stolen by a former employe, an
Egyptian, of a Dublin solicitor, together with a previous version of the
Will. This had resulted in a family losing all their money, since the
father had been a Partner in an Eastern Bank that foundered in the
events leading up to the Soudan War.

Eventually the two Wills are tracked down, and justice done as regards
the estate.

But all this is a parallel story to the description of events in the
Soudan War. This is well worth reading for its own sake, especially in
this day and age, when certain events seem about to repeat themselves.
NH
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FOR FORTUNE AND GLORY
A STORY OF THE SOUDAN WAR

BY LEWIS HOUGH
A STORY OF THE SOUDAN WAR.

CHAPTER ONE.

A MYSTERIOUS RELATIVE.

It is nice to go home, even from Harton, though we may be leaving all
our sports behind us. It used to be specially nice in winter; but you
young fellows are made so co