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NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

... Sons. This is the first volume of the nmemorial edition of the works of the late Mr. G. W. Steevens, a-rho went to South Africa as war correspondent, and died during the siege of Ladysmith. The sub- title of this work is inpressions of :slen, Cities, and ...

THE STORY OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

... i THE STORY OF THE W AR IN SOUTH AFR ICA,I Br CArT-ATN A~. T. XL' cxAs,USN. Theoe is Lo n Cj to books cc., th~e wa~r, and thereI ino fi- 0a c1:Maiihndaun calca Iic nra~c! echrrhutor to da1is litoeacdur is, Captir n Mahban. arnd it tied sca:rcely be sza ...

A PRACTICALLY UNITED PEOPLE

... of the Dutch !eumblic refused to give Way, and a point &t which we could not and would not give way. The interests of South Africa, be added, the interests of civilisation, the in- terests of national honour, all made such a curae impossible, and however ...

LITERATURE

... they do expect, to see the relations of the two races placed on a better footing by a bitter war between them, a war 'which has many of the .incidents of a civil war, and is waged on one side by citizen soldiers. To most observers it seems more likely to ...

LITERARY GOSSIP

... last weak. It is a record of aoturil ex:periences in South Africa, and deals with Boer characteristics, his life, an( the circumnstv`ces wrhiclh have monuded him t!le Boer war ned the Kacffir wars: and the inevi- table details concerning sport, adventure ...

ALL THE WORLD AROUND!

... the prettiest town in South Africa. After -seven years' w ence, a renewed acquaintance tells me I was not mistaken in this estimate. If I were _ Paris, and the golden 'apple were mine to hand to the fairest among South Africa's towns, it is more y; than ...

NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

... Siecs: *-The war in the Soudan, I the Ph.llipines. and South Africa, die Peace Con- fsrence at The H~ague, the Vrenezuelan arbitration, the Angfllo-French agreement ina North Central Africa. mnd the agreement. with Gerany in the Pacific. West Africa. the c ...

MR. DU VAL'S BOOK OF TRAVELS

... ago, and now we have Mr. Du Vat's South Africa. Mr. Du Val's work is not quite ready yet, but it is announced for an early date, and from notices of the author's tour, With a Show through Southern Africa, which appeared in the colonial papers at ...

PATRIOTIC CONCERT IN ULSTER HALL

... the justice of Britain's position- 'The war is in Africa now,' said the speaker, 'where may it be twelve months hence?' In 1895 Cleveland had given the British 'Government sufficient cause for war. What if war had broken out then? Perhaps some other colony ...

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

... 1899; the war broke out on the 11th 3 October following. He states that during that month he had exceptional opportunities of gain- J ing an insight into the difficulties of the problem. He was in Ladysmnith or the day of the declara- tion of war, and in ...

MUSICAL PITCH

... Curragh, has become vacant, Col..nel Viscount Downse having gone to South Africa with Lord Roberts. Viscount Downe has had experience of South Africa, having served in the Zulu war, when he was mentioned in despatches, and promoted brevet-major. Colonel ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... HORLICK'S MALTED MILK, which ka3 proved its value to the sick I and wounded, asi is in lrge demand in Snith Africa. Fjpi all 'ybo suffer, Wneaer in peace or war, there is no better diet. The seat of most disorders is in the stomach, and Horlick'e Mal- ted Mile ...