New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-06

that they dimly detected the presence of
essential sympathy. which revealed him at heart
their friend and demonstrated that such emnity
as there might be was purely accidental. And
verify Mr.. Rhodes has much more in common
with the sons of the soil than with the camor-
ous gold seeking Uitlander. whom he only began
to when the farmer became ntrsctable. In
his strange, complex character that deep seated
sentiment OF the earth, that love of the land.
will never be quenched by the Moloch of I'm
peria expansion. Thus, on that still night in
vryburgL watched that phenomenon take place
which is the last reward of the orator-the
triumph OF the communicate BILE unsaid. Into the
dull wits of the Bechuanaland farmers there
filtered the conviction that the speaker and they
And they one-with a difference.
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes is an elemental, with passion
for power. while the Dutch farmer is an ele-
mental with passion for peace
This shows that Mrs. Devereux sees. and
thinks for herself. Her book is a collection OF
brief sketches; it is light and not OF much con-
sequence But It is book for the moment, just
the kind of popular survey of existing condi-
tions which deserves a welcome. since it pre-
sents useful information in terse agreeable form.
THE History of the Great Boer Trek" consists
of five lectures delivered before the Literary So
cety of Pietermaritzburg in 1852 30 by the late
Hon. Henry Cloete, who Her Majesty's
High Commissioner for Natal in the early for
ties. when that region in course of transit
ton into a British colony. 1t is a scholarly
study of the origin of the South African repub-
lies, couched in impartial language and giving
a comprehensive statement of those earlier
events with which students Of the present situa-
ton would do we'll to make themselves &C
quainted. The work has a certain gravity Of
tone, but It is enriched by some picturesque
passages devoted to notable episodes, and, final
ly. it has the virtue of brevity. THE Key to
South Africa: Delagoa Bay" by Montague
George Jessett F. r. G. s., is also short and
handy. It is, perhaps, the most pertinent of
all the South African publications lately issued
We wish we might describe it one of the
best of them, but although a good deal of Apo
site data about Lourenco Marques and Delagoa
Bay, about the natives, fauna, flora, etc, about
the Deagoa Bay and Netherlands railways
and about the trade and political history of the
region, is brought within the covers of the book
it is all rather scrappily handled This is
piece of occasional literature" instructive and
convenient, but hurried and superficial. War
in South Africa" more voluminous production.
has the same qualities and the same defects.
1t is bulky scrapbook. a mass of information
and polemical deliverances too well d.
gested. The papers gathered together under
the general title of 'Briton and Boer'' have al
ready been illustrated in The Tribune by copi-
Gus citations made at the time they first
published in THE North American Review"
These pages written by Mr.. Bryce, Mr. Sydney
Brooks, Dr. Engelenburg, Karl Blind Mr.. Car
negie Max Nordau and others, frankly
gumentative. The book deals with both sides
Of the South African question. Its contents are
worth having in permanent FORM and they are
enhanced in interest by numerous illustrations
and good map