DR. JAMESON.
Dr. Jameson. By G. Seymour Fort. (Hurst and Blackett. 103. 6d. net.)—We should have thought that the biography of Dr. Jameson was one of those for which it is well to wait., It is probable, indeed, that some of the difficulties which surround the critical periods will never be cleared away. Meanwhile we may be sure that, South African politics being what they are, the last word cannot be said now. On the story of the early life, as Mr. Fort tells it, we have no criticism to offer. We see a very strenuous person who know that he had his own way to make, and made it. He was a highly successful student of medicine at University College, London. He had not wasted any time in what Mr. Fort is pleased to, call the ," semi-scenic world of Oxford and Cambridge," a world which, we may remind him, Mr. Rhodos, who was certainly Dr. Jameson's leader, did his best to enlarge. Then came eleven years of practice at Kimberley, and then an active share in South African affairs, resulting in first the occupation and then the administration of Mashonaland. After this we have the "Raid." Mr: Fort is not able to throw any ,light upon this strange event. That Dr. Jameson believed absolutely in himself and in his "luck" is all that he can say. The imprisonment, the trial, the House of Commons' Committee, and finally the Premiership, succeed. These we may pass over without comment. Mr. Fort is, of course, a partisan, but reasonably fair.
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