The Truth about the Jameson Raid. By J. Hays Hammond
as related to Alleyne Ireland. (Boston: Marshall Jones. 61.) —To recall the story of the Jameson Raid is not exactly intendant renorare dolorem—to revive an unspeakable sorrow— as ihe tale of Troy was for Aeneas, but the episode was not a pleasant one. However, in the interests of historic truth, Mr. liammond's recollections deserved placing on record. Mr. Hammond insists that "Dr. Jim" acted ecntrary to his in- structions in crossing the Transvaal border, and that his preme, tare action upset the plans of the Reformers at Johannesburg. The full story, he says, was never told because he and his three fellow-leaders, after their death sentences were commuted, pledged themselves to keep silence for three years on all Transvaal political questions ; before the pledge expired, the war broke out and the raid wee forgotten. Mr.lfammond, se on American, pets the case against President Kruger's corrupt dictatorship very Weedy and forcibly. If the Boer War had been delayed
till 1914, we might, as he says, have been confronted by a very grave danger in South Africa. On the other hand, President Kruger's system might not have lasted so long.
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