What will happen? It would be foolhardy to prophesy. ’If in doubt, refrain,’ says the sage. I will take his advice, offering for the consideration of those who have followed me so far this melancholy sentence from the Westminster Gazette of last March: ’Each Boer will have cost us £2,000 to subdue, and no one can yet say what each will cost us to govern.’ October, 1900. BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD [Illustration: Map of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State (small version)] [Illustration: Map of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State (large version)] * * * * * * * * The Transvaal from Within BY J. P. FITZPATRICK Demy 8vo., cloth, 10s. net. Popular Edition, cloth, 2s. 6d. net. People’s Edition, paper, 6d. net Mr. Chamberlain, replying to a Westmoreland correspondent, who complained of the want of a printed defence of the Government’s policy in the Transvaal, wrote, ’I refer you to Mr. FitzPatrick’s book.’ Lord Rosebery at Bath: ’A book which seems to me to bear on every page and in every sentence the mark of truth, which gives you wholesale and in detail an extraordinary, and I think I may say an appalling, record of the way in which the Government of the Transvaal was carried on and the subjection to which it reduced our fellow-countrymen there.’ The Times: ’Mr. FitzPatrick’s book supplies a want which has been widely felt. For the first time, the information which everyone has been asking for, and which nobody has been able to obtain, with regard to the common facts of contemporary Transvaal history, is collected in a volume convenient for reference and easy to read. Nothing that has been written upon the Transvaal brings the conditions of life there so clearly before English readers. Mr. FitzPatrick lays his arguments boldly and simply before his readers, but it is in the facts of the book--facts never before brought together in so convenient a form--that the most powerful of all arguments will be found. Few readers will lay down the volume without feeling that they know more than they have ever known before of the real issues on trial in South Africa.’ Why Kruger Made War Or, Behind the Boer Scenes BY JOHN A. BUTTERY LATE OF THE ’STANDARD AND DIGGERS’ NEWS,’ JOHANNESBURG 1 vol., crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. Second Impression