On Circuit in Kafirland, and Other Sketches and Studies

Crown 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. vi + (ii) + 335 + (v). Cloth a little rubbed and sunned on spine; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown and ownership stamp to front free endpaper; lower hinge starting; moderate foxing throughout. Good condition. (Mendelssohn I, p. 868) 'The article entitled "A Great Adventurer" affords a most interesting sketch of Mr. Rhodes, but the story of Barnato and the bucket of diamonds is incorrectly narrated; Rhodes was not a buyer of diamonds, and it was Rhodes who sold and Barnato who bought the famous bucket. "How we went on Circuit in a sort of war," is an account of an assize held "towards the end of 1901, in a somewhat disturbed portion of the Cape Colony." There is an interesting monograph called "From the Hague to the Cape, the Peace Conference and the South African War," which gives many particulars with reference to the Hague Conference, and an account of its provisions. Of the latter the author remarks, "It is a melancholy reflection that there is probably not one of the acts here solemnly reprobated as offences against humanity which, during the prolonged conflict between civilised belligerents in South Africa, has not been imputed, in some cases officially, in others by assertions in the public press, to one or other, and in several instances to both the combatants engaged."' - Mendelssohn.