Mr, Edward Arnold's List. 



II 



FO UR TH ED in ON, 



FIRE AND SWORD IN THE SUDAN. 



A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes, 



1879-1895. 



By SLATIN PASHA, Colonel in the Egyptian Army, formerly Governor 

 and Commandant of the Troops in Darfur. 



Translated and Edited by Major F. R. Wingate, R.A., D.S.O., 



Author of ' Mahdiism and the Egyptian Soudan,' etc. 



Fully Illustrated by R. Talbot Kelly. 

 Royal 8vo., One Guinea net. 



* Whether Slatin's work is more important and attractive as a powerful exhortation 

 on a subject of the greatest political importance and of special national significance 

 from the noble English blood spilt in the Sudan, or as a chapter of human experience 

 wherein truth far surpassed fiction in hair-breadth escapes and deeds of daring beyond 

 what seemed possible, it would be difficult to decide ; but the whole result is one that 

 places this volume on a shelf of its own, not merely as the book of the day, but as the 

 authority for all time on the great Mahommedan upheaval in the Sudan, which was 

 accompanied by an amount of human slaughter and suffering that defies calculation.' 

 — Times. 



' It would be hard to name a fictitious narrative of more thrilling interest than this 

 true story of Colonel Slatin Pasha's captivity in the Sudan and escape from the terrors 

 which have marked the rule of the atrocious Khalifa Abdullahi.'— 6"/<2;2^/^zrt/. 



* Here is a work on matters of contemporary fact, which for romance, colour, adven- 

 ture, and complexity and intensity of human feeling, outdoes many a novel by the 

 masters of the art of fiction.' — St. James's Gazette. 



* Absolutely unique. Were we to try to extract, or even notice, all the striking 

 things in this book, we should fill our paper.' — Spectator. 



' Told with a vividness and vigour that will carry you away.' — Truth. 



' The story told in this work is one of enthralling interest. In the whole modern 

 literature of travel and adventure we cannot call to mind a work so absorbing as this.' 

 — Manchester Guardian. 



* An exceedingly fascinating and engaging book, which is not surpassed in interest 

 by any other of the kind that has been published for many years. It is written with 

 rare ability and force. The narrative throughout is vivid, graphic, and picturesque, 

 abounding in dramatic incident and striking character.' — Leeds Mercury. 



* One of the most interesting books of the year, or, indeed, of the past decade.' — 

 Daily Telegraph. 



' The story of the experiences of Slatin Pasha as a ruler, a soldier, and a captive in 

 the Sudan is one of the most striking romances of modern times. The return of this 

 distinguished officer, after a disappearance of eleven years and more, from what 

 Father Ohrwalder with bitter recollections calls a " living grave," and the perilous 

 incidents of his escape and flight, form in themselves an extraordinary tale. But the 

 interest of the book is much increased by the importance which, in the minds of 

 English people, attaches to the melancholy events in which he bore a part, and by the 

 narrative in which this witness risen from the dead reopens the story of the great 

 tragedy of Khartoum.' — Speaker, 



