Invaluable among other things for its comprehensive bibliography, this work deals with its subject forcefully, sympathetically and simply. The last chapters, covering Barnato\'s illness and suicide at sea at the age of 44, are particularly moving, with the writer reminding his readers that, unlike most of his competitors, Barnato, although claimng to be depressed by his work situation, ran his mining companies so soundly that they continued to prosper long after his death. Although the writer clearly enjoys his subject\'s exciting youth in the poorest Jewish area of London, he keeps an equal focus on Barnato\'s confrontation with Kruger after the Jameson Raid, his importance to Rhodes and his dream of a Union of South Africa under the British flag.
The blue cloth-boards are stained and rubbed, with the spine bumped head and foot, though with no loss of material. The binding is firm. There is a handsome bookplate on the front pastedown but no other marks. There is some early foxing. The book\'s vii + 271 pp of text, bibliography and index + frontispiece and 7 other pages of inserted photographs are all present and unmarked.
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