We are glad to see that Messrs. Blackwood has issued
a translation (price 6d.) of the excellent pamphlet on the Trans- vaal Question written by M. Naville, the famous Swiss Egypt°. logist. We would especially call attention to the passages in which M. Neville dissects the conditions imposed by the Transvaal with a view to prevent England from controlling and superintending the carrying out of the proposals relative to the franchise. He admires the courage and heroism dis- played by the Boers in defending their independent political life, but finds that independent political life based upon two indefensible aims,—the oppression of the natives and the making of money out of foreigners. M. Neville most rightly refuses to compare the Transvaal with Switzerland, the dis- appearance of which country would be a real calamity to the civilised world.
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