A SOLDIER'S DIARY IN SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902.

366 pages, frontispiece, numerous  sketches in the text, brown cloth gilt, foxing on the half title page, edges  uncut.

Jackson served in the Mounted Infantry  throughout the war in the Transvaal and the O.F.S. and gives a racy,  well-written account that offers an excellent view of the counter-guerrilla war  as experienced in ranks of a mounted unit. Greenwall, in 'Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War,' page 151, writes,  'Jackson's book was based on manuscript notes and illustrations which he had  sent back to his family in England. The publisher mentions in a preface that  the author was offered a commission twice but declined. He apologises for  Jackson's expressive illustrations: "If they should be subjected to an academic  criticism which they were not expected to face, it should be mentioned that he  has never had a drawing lesson in his life"'.