With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State in 1880-1.

Second Edition, with new map of the South African Republic and text of the convention of 1884. Demy 8vo; original olive green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. xvi + 395; folding frontis. map; folding plan. Joints and edges rubbed; scuff to upper cover; binding slack, with some archival tape reinforcing. (Mendelssohn II, p. 98-9 [1st edition]; SABIB 3, p. 538) \'An account of the Boer War of 1880-1, together with some preliminary chapters referring to the history of the South African Colonies and Republics up to this period. The author expresses the hope that the publication of the volume will conduce \"to the development of a more liberal feeling towards our future colonists, the Boers - the early pioneers of civlisation, colonisation, and European domination in South Africa.\" He considered that the causes of the war were due partially \"to the peculiarities and untractableness of the Boers themselves; but, principally, to the undoubted mismanagement and willful blindness of the Imperial authorities both at home and out here, as evidenced by the various and contradictory policies pursued by successive governors.\' - Mendelssohn.