GORDON and the MAHDI,

AN

Illustrator ftarratib* 0s % Wiux m % Stoufrau;

INCLUDING THE STORY OF ITS ORIGINAL CONQUEST BY MEHEMET ALI, AND

ITS PROGRESS UNDER GENERAL GORDON'S ENERGETIC RULE.

OORDOn'S BIDE ACROSS THE DESERT TO BERBER.

" 0 awfulPresence of the lovely Nile,

0 awful Presence of the starry sky, Lo, in this little while

Unto the mind's true-seeing inward eye There hatharisen there

Another hauntingPresence, as sublime, As great, as sternly fair—

Yea, rather,fairer far Than stream,or sky,or star,—

To live while star shall bumor river roll, Unmarredby marring Time,

The erownof Being, aheroic soul." "InMemoriam," by Ernest Myers.

THIRTIETH THOUSAND.

LONDON: VIZETELLY & CO., 42, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.

1885.