The New South Africa. (Signed & inscribed copy)

An up to date description of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies at the time when the gold industry was being restarted on the Rand although war was still raging. The chapters on " Witwatersrand Goldfields," " The Greater Rand," "The Quartz Reef Districts," and " The Monopoly of the Gold," present gold-mining in the Transvaal at this period: while other chapters afford valuable information respecting other minerals found in the country, together with a list of diamond mines discovered up to date, which does not, however, include the great "Premier" mine, discovered about this time.

The author was a resident of Johannesburg, and appears to have been fully conversant with the burning question which agitated the community before the outbreak of war. He remarks that the modern Boer "has shown his ready adaptation to a new environment, his capacity for vigorous growth and increase, etc," ; on the other hand, "he seems to have a gift of twisting everything to his own particular way of vision... His patriotism is stronger than his oath, and although he has a certain sense of honour, the code is peculiar. He is a very sophist in arguing to his own advantage, and convinces even himself in the face of of the most contrary evidence."

Other chapters deal with the railways. industries, and commerce of the country, the administration, the fiscal policy, and the war debt, etc, etc.

SOURCE: Mendelssohn. Volume I Pages 135-136.

New grained green boards, with light brown label, with black lettering.New endpapers. Inscribed and signed-Pretoria, February 24th 1902. Light spots to prelims.xvi plus 435 pages plus 34 pages publishers advertisements. Halftitle. Frontispiece. Title. Note. Contents. Eleven photographs. 8 maps & diagrams(5 folding).

Very clean copy.