SIR JOSEPH ROBINSON'S STATEMENT ON THE DIS- CUSSIONS CONCERNING HIM
IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS has been issued in pamphlet form (St. Clement's Press), and rambles over a good deal of ground. He is unfortu- nately precluded from dealing with the Randfontein judgment by the fact that he " has not yet done with " it, but he tells us that he will have more to say at the proper time about the " conspiracy, corruption and perjured evidence which succeeded in imposing upon the court." He makes the interesting statement that he spent something like £200,000 in his " endeavours to bring about conciliation " between the Boers and the Rhodes group after the Jameson Raid ; but he declares that the baronetcy which General Botha insisted on his accepting in 1908 " did not cost him a single farthing." He has much to say about " the mushroom Pecksniff lords " (as they are called by a South Africa,' supporter) who had the temerity to attack him. But he throws no light on the offer of the peerage which the discussion in the Lords led him respectfully to decline.
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