Lewis Hough, an Englishman who was probably born in the third or fourth decade of the nineteenth century, became an expert in Sir Isaac Pitman's new invention, phonography—better known today as Pitman shorthand. He wrote a number of stories in that script which were printed as exercises for students. As you can see from the booklist below, they were printed by lithography. He also wrote a number of boys’ books which enjoyed success. Of them, most interest today is in “For Fortune and Glory: A Story of the Soudan War”, whose one edition was illustrated by Walter Paget, the younger brother of Sidney Paget, the creator of the original illustrations of Sherlock Holmes for the Strand Magazine.
Since his time, he has been confused frequently with Lewis Sylvester Hough (“Paulus”), an American essayist on economics and politics, who was his contemporary.
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e-Texts constructed from nineteenth and early twentieth century books by Athelstane. Copyright 2003,2004