The Truth about the Transvaal. By Edward B. Rose. (Morning
Leader Office. 5s.)—Mr. Rose sets forth here the case for the Transvaal. His opinions, we need hardly say, are widely different from those of the Spectator. It is obviously impossible to discuss this difference in detail, but it is only fair to inform our readers of the fact that when they wish to study this side of the question, they will fmd it stated as fully as may be in this book. We remain firmly convinced that the action of this country was abso- lutely necessary ; that, as John Mackenzie saw more than twenty years ago, it was the cherished ambition of the Boer leaders to substitute the Dutch for the British power in South Africa; and further, that the success of this ambition would have meant the, hopeless enslavement of the native races. The one notice, as far as we can see, which Mr. Rose takes of Mackezizie is to speak of his "pampering" policy towards the natives.
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