"Such examples are fruitful in the future," said Mr Gladstone in the House of Commons; and it is as a perfect model of all that was good, brave, and true that Gordon will be enshrined in the memory of the great English nation which he really died for, and whose honour was dearer to him than his life. England may well feel proud of having produced so noble and so unapproachable a hero. She has had, and she will have again, soldiers as brave, as thoughtful, as prudent, and as successful as Gordon. She has had, and she will have again, servants of the same public spirit, with the same intense desire that not a spot should sully the national honour. But although this breed is not extinct, there will never be another Gordon. The circumstances that produced him were exceptional; the opportunities that offered themselves for the demonstration of his greatness can never fall to the lot of another; and even if by some miraculous combination the man and the occasions arose, the hero, unlike Gordon, would be spoilt by his own success and public applause. But the qualities which made Gordon superior not only to all his contemporaries, but to all the temptations and weaknesses of success, are attainable; and the student of his life will find that the guiding star he always kept before him was the duty he owed his country. In that respect, above all others, he has left future generations of his countrymen a great example. THE END. INDEX. _Abbas_, steamer, ii. 144; loss of, 145-6. Abd-el-Kader, ii. 100, 102, 119. Abdulgassin, ii. 32. Abdullah, the present Khalifa, ii. 98, 102. Abdurrahman, ii. 45, 68. Abou Hamid, ii. 144. Abou Klea, ii. 163; battle of, 164; loss at, _ibid._, 166. Abouna, an, ii. 33. Abou Kru, ii. 164; battle of, 165, 169. Abou Sammat, ii. 29. Abou Saoud, i. 149. Abyssinia, the expedition to, i. 131-2; ii. 5, 32, 35, 70 _passim_. Academy, Royal Military, i. 5, 6, 7. Adye, Sir John, i. 137. Afghanistan, ii. 45, 68, 69, 70. Alagos, i. 40. Albert Lake, i. 155, 156. Alexandropol, i. 35. Alla-ed-Din, ii. 102. Alma, i. 8, 16. Amoy, i. 72. Anderson, W. C., i. 41. Anfina, i. 158. Ani, i. 37, 38. Arabi Pasha, ii. 97. Arabs as soldiers, i. 150. Ararat, Mount, i. 38, 39. Aras, i. 33. Arendrup, ii. 5. Arokol Bey, ii. 5. _Army and Navy Gazette_, ii. 70. Ashantee Expedition, i. 138. Assiout, ii. 133. Assouan, ii. 153. Athens, i. 15. Ayoob, ii. 68.