Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt

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DONOVAN PASHA AND SOME PEOPLE OF EGYPT, Complete
By Gilbert Parker

CONTENTS
Volume 1. WHILE THE LAMP HOLDS OUT TO BURN THE PRICE
OF THE GRINDSTONE-AND THE DRUM THE DESERTION OF
MAHOMMED SELIMON THE REEF OF NORMAN'S WOE
Volume 2. FIELDING HAD AN ORDERLY THE EYE OF THE
NEEDLE A TREATY OF PEACE AT THE MERCY OF TIBERIUS
ALL THE WORLD'S MAD
Volume 3. THE MAN AT THE WHEEL A TYRANT AND A LADY
Volume 4. A YOUNG LION OF DEDAN HE WOULD NOT BE
DENIED THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK THE LIGHT OF OTHER
DAYS

INTRODUCTION
To the FOREWORD of this book I have practically nothing to add. It
describes how the book was planned, and how at last it came to be
written. The novel--'The Weavers'--of which it was the herald, as one
might say, was published in 1907. The reception of Donovan Pasha
convinced me beyond peradventure, that the step I took in enlarging my
field of work was as wise in relation to my art as in its effect upon my
mind, temperament and faculty for writing. I knew Egypt by study
quite as well as I knew the Dominion of Canada, the difference being,
of course, that the instinct for the life of Canada was part of my very
being itself; but there are great numbers of people who live their lives
for fifty or seventy or eighty years in a country, and have no real
instinct for understanding. There are numberless Canadians who do not
understand Canada, Englishmen who know nothing of England, and
Americans who do not understand the United States. If it is so that I
have some instinct for the life of Canada, and have expressed it to the
world with some accuracy and fidelity, it is apparent that the capacity
for understanding could not be limited absolutely to one environment.
That I understood Canada could not be established by the fact that I had
spent my boyhood there, but only by the fact that some inner vision
permitted me to see it as it really was. That inner vision, however, if it
was anything at all was not in blinders, seeing only one section of the
life of the world. Relatively it might see more deeply, more intimately
in that place where habit of life had made the man familiar with all its
detail, but the same vision turned elsewhere to fields where study and
sympathy played a devoted part, could not fail to see; though the
workman's craft, which made material the vision, might fail.
The reception given Donovan Pasha convinced me that neither the
vision nor the craftsmanship had wholly failed, whatever the degree of
success which had been reached. Anglo-Egyptians approved the book.
Its pages passed through the hands of an Englishman who had done
over twenty years' service in the British army in Egypt and in official
positions in the Egyptian administration, and I do not think that he
made six corrections in the whole three hundred pages. He had himself

a great gift for both music and painting; he was essentially exacting
where any literature touching Egypt was concerned; but I am glad to
think that, whatever he thought of the book as fiction, he did not find it
necessary to grant absolution as to the facts and the details of incidents
in character and life pourtrayed in Donovan Pasha.
Who the