South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8)

INTRODUCTION

The Transvaal War--like a gigantic picture--cannot be considered at close quarters. To fully appreciate the situation, and all that it embraces, the critic must stand at a suitable distance. He must gaze not merely with the eye of to-day, or even of the whole nineteenth century, but with his mind educated to the strange conditions of earlier civilisation. For in these c...