These books are in the form of PDFs. They are printable and searchable. They have been digitised by scanning nineteenth century or early twentieth century copies of the books. These original scans are also available in the Internet Archive. To make them more readable we have omitted the images, which can be seen, if desired, with the original scans in the Internet Archive. Books dated later than 1922 may not be viewed from within the USA.

Many books of the period up to 1922 were originally published in serial form, usually in weekly instalments. Such books might be put into book form for the first time several years after the author's death.

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, phonographybetter known today as Pitman shorthand. He wrote a number of stories in that script which were printed as exercises for students. 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.