George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life

George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life
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Fenn George Manville. George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life

Preface

Chapter One. Early Days

Chapter Two. From Cambridge to the Crimea

Chapter Three. Invalided Home

Chapter Four. The First Glimpse of Italy

Chapter Five. The Italian War

Chapter Six. The Search for an Army and a Meal

Chapter Seven. The Battle of Lissa

Chapter Eight. The End of the War

Chapter Nine. Impressions of Italy

Chapter Ten. The Visit to San Marino

Chapter Eleven. A Land of Mystery

Chapter Twelve. A Subterranean Excursion

Chapter Thirteen. Mining for Mercury

Chapter Fourteen. The Abyssinian Campaign

Chapter Fifteen. Incidents of Transport

Chapter Sixteen. En Route for Magdala

Chapter Seventeen. Jottings by the Way

Chapter Eighteen. King Theodore at Bay

Chapter Nineteen. The Fall of the Curtain

Chapter Twenty. The Suez Canal

Chapter Twenty One. The Franco-German War

Chapter Twenty Two. The Commune

Chapter Twenty Three. The Vendôme Column

Chapter Twenty Four. The Days of Reprisal

Chapter Twenty Five. A Word about Politics

Chapter Twenty Six. On the Life of a War Correspondent

Chapter Twenty Seven. A Risky Cruise with H.M. Stanley

Chapter Twenty Eight. The “Weaker Sex” in Ashanti

Chapter Twenty Nine. Warfare in the Bush

Chapter Thirty. The March up Country

Chapter Thirty One. The Battle of Amoaful

Chapter Thirty Two. A Carlist War

Chapter Thirty Three. The Royal Tour in India

Chapter Thirty Four. Among the Turks

Chapter Thirty Five. Philosophy in Camp

Chapter Thirty Six. The Turkish Army

Chapter Thirty Seven. A Busy Convalescence

Chapter Thirty Eight. Concerning War Correspondents

Chapter Thirty Nine. Henty and his Books

Chapter Forty. An Appreciation

Chapter Forty One. Personal Notes

Chapter Forty Two. Club Life

Chapter Forty Three. His Great Hobby

Chapter Forty Four. A Final Word

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We might know very little of the life of the late George Alfred Henty – writer for and teacher of boys, novelist, and one of the most virile of our war correspondents – but for one fortunate fact. His busy pen soon made him popular, and in course of time this popularity was sufficient to make editors of journals for the young realise that their readers would gladly learn something of the early life of the man whose vivid tales of adventure were being read with avidity wherever the English language had spread. In these days few are content to know a man only by his work, and even boys like to know something about the personality and experiences of the writers who have given them keen pleasure. As a result the inevitable came to pass, and the modern chronicler of personal details sought out the author. To his interviewers Henty told fragments of his past life, and these reminiscences were taken down in short or long hand, and built up into articles, and have remained, to bring before us vividly what would otherwise never have been known save perhaps by tradition.

It is strange now to reflect that the big, robust, heavy, manly-looking Englishman of whom these lines are written, was once a puny, sickly boy who was looked upon by his relatives as one who could never by any possibility attain to man’s estate; but so it was. Here are his own words: “I spent my boyhood, to the best of my recollection, in bed.”

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He does not forget to credit his school with the education his Alma Mater afforded him. He says: “She did give me a good drilling in Latin. Perhaps not elegant classical Latin, but good, everyday, useful, colloquial stuff.” In his time the masters were great upon the old dramatic author whom so many of our modern dramatists have tapped right through Elizabethan, Restoration, and more modern times, down to the present. In Henty’s early days, just as is annually the custom now, one or other of Terence’s comedies was chosen for a performance by the Queen’s Scholars, while every other boy as a matter of course had to get up one play as the lesson of the year as well, and doubtless, as has been the case with many a schoolboy in turn, would fall a-wondering how it was that the great Latin poet possessed an Irish name.

Latin verses and Latin colloquial phrases were hard enough to pile up, while parents and guardians, ready enough to complain, found fault at so much time being devoted to the dead languages to the exclusion of those which are spoken now. Hear, ye grumblers, what George Henty says thereon to an interviewer: —

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