Great Britain and the Dutch Republics (Times Office, 3d.) is
a reprint of four articles that appeared in the Times in February on the history of the relations between this country. and the Boer States. The contention of these three pamphlets is oppor- tunely reinforced by a new cheaper edition of The Transvaal from Within, by J. P. FitzPatrick (W. Heinemann, 2s. Gd. net). In his new introduction Mr. FitzPatrick insists again on the fact of which every day is bringing to the light fresh proofs, that a non-British dominion in South Africa was the ideal even of statesmen who were not unfriendly to England, and those "who knew" have always seen it. Fifteen years ago Mr. Merriman
said :--`. From the very first I felt it must come to this, —was England or the Transvaal to be the paramount force in South Africa ? " Yet we " invented " this last October !
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