THE VICTORIAN ERA IN SOUTH AFRICA (1897)

Publisher's red cloth binding with gilt titles on the front panel and gilt page edges.

viii + 102pp. With portraits and maps. A good copy with no inscriptions.

An account of South Africa during the first sixty years of Queen Victoria's reign. The history embraces all the salient occurrences of this period including the subjects of dispute between the Dutch and British systems of government, which ultimately culminated in the South African War of 1899-1902.          

Of Mr. Rhodes it is remarked that he ""is a man of vast ambitions and of very strongly developed will power,"" and Paul Kruger is characterised as being, ""within his somewhat narrow limits, an extremely able man."" It is stated that one of the effects of the Raid was that ""A great wave of Afrikander resentment swept over Africa""       but the opinion is expressed that ""President Kruger and his advisers, in spite of recent armaments, are not likely to push matters to the arbitrament of war.""

There are two maps, one showing the British possessions in South Africa in 1837 and the other in 1897.