. Review of reviews and world's work. ex- pected by England to push straight into Kimber-ley without much further delay. Imagine, there-fore, the disappointment at the VVar Office inLondon when the news of Gatacres defeat onthe 9th was followed by a dispatch from LordMethuen, sent on the 12th, telling of a fearful andunsuccessful battle beginning on Sunday night,the 10th, and continuing well through Monday,the 11th, at Magersfontein, which lies near therailroad line, some four miles north of the ModderRiver, toward Kimberley. The Boers had care-fully intrenched themselves along one of those li
. Review of reviews and world's work. ex- pected by England to push straight into Kimber-ley without much further delay. Imagine, there-fore, the disappointment at the VVar Office inLondon when the news of Gatacres defeat onthe 9th was followed by a dispatch from LordMethuen, sent on the 12th, telling of a fearful andunsuccessful battle beginning on Sunday night,the 10th, and continuing well through Monday,the 11th, at Magersfontein, which lies near therailroad line, some four miles north of the ModderRiver, toward Kimberley. The Boers had care-fully intrenched themselves along one of those littleeminences known as a kopje. They were ex-traordinarily successful several times during Mon-day in drawing the British forces up to within afew hundred feet of the trench lines, covered withleaves or otherwise obscured, with the consequenceof an irresistibly deadly fire from the Boer day or two later it was reported that GeneralMethuens loss was 832 and that the Boer casual-ties were almost as great. The most notable per-. GENERAL LORD METHUEN. sonage who fell in that battle was Brigadier-Gen-eral Wauchope, who led the Highland commenting on this disastrous affair, which sodecisively checked Lord Methuen just as it wassupposed that he was about to relieve Kimberley,the sentiment of the London press was well ex-pressed by the Westminster Gazette, which de-clared : If England ever needed a victory, itis now ; and it is to BuUer, the soldier, strong, THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 19 cool headed, and reticent, that the country looksfor this victory. This expression of relianceupon Buller appeared on December 14. On thenext day General Bullers expected battle wasfought at the Tugela River, but, as we haveshown, it turned out a worse reverse than LordMethuens at Magersfontein. RedoublingBritish Efforts On Sunday evening, December 17, itwas announced in London that uponthe advice of the military authoritiesher majestys government had decided to call outall the rema
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