The Transvaal Under the Queen. By Lieutenant-Colonel N. Newnham-Davis. (Sands
and Co. 6s.)—The author of this volume was in the Transvaal more than twenty years ago, and saw many persons and things there which it is now interesting to read about. What chiefly concerns us now is what this observer thought of the Boers, and it is not out of harmony with conclu- sions that present events seem to justify. The Boer is not exceptionally brave. He will stand behind fortifications—for a time. But he will not stand, as a rule, till it comes to close quarters ; and what our soldiers have been doing since the begin- ning of the campaign, storming entrenched positions, is wholly beyond him.—A more elaborate book on the same subject is The Transvaal and the Boers, by W. E. Garrett Fisher, M.A. (Chapman and Hall, 10s. 6d.) It is partly a republication of a volume which
appeared in 1896, but the author hats added an account of the struggle for power which has been carried on between the B. era and the Outlanders. Mr. Fisher is Boeranis pariibus non inigues.
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