25 NOVEMBER 1899, Page 11

WILL THE BOERS HATE US AFTER THE WAR

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Those critical quidnuncs who prophesy that the Transvaal Boers will hate the English with an undying hatred after they have been overcome, have forgotten a case very much in point. The Boers of New Amsterdam do not nurse any special hatred for the English who conquered them, and renamed their town New York.—I am, Sir, &c.,