. Review of reviews and world's work. Its hardy stock is needed inthe work of developing the Dark Continent. Weall know well that the English in the course of a few more weeks or months can hammer andblunder their way through to Pretoria, for thesimple reason that they have money, ships, andguns without limit. They can, if need be, trans-port a million fighting men to Natal and CapeColony, while the whole Boer nation is already inthe field, so far as the two republics are con-cerned, and the prospect of assistance from anyoutside quarter is too remote to be seriously con-sidered. The war again
. Review of reviews and world's work. Its hardy stock is needed inthe work of developing the Dark Continent. Weall know well that the English in the course of a few more weeks or months can hammer andblunder their way through to Pretoria, for thesimple reason that they have money, ships, andguns without limit. They can, if need be, trans-port a million fighting men to Natal and CapeColony, while the whole Boer nation is already inthe field, so far as the two republics are con-cerned, and the prospect of assistance from anyoutside quarter is too remote to be seriously con-sidered. The war against the American colonieswas a shameful thing for England, and about theonly Englishmen who have come out of it de-cently on the page of history are the Chathams,Foxes, and Burkes, who saw the truth and spokeit with courage. England lost in that war, andher Burgoynes, Howes, and Cornwallises won noglory for themselves or their country. Englandwill win in the present war, but it will be Com-mandants Joubert, Cronje, and the other Boer. t .cneral JOUBERT AND SOME OF HIS MILITARY ASSOCIATES. leaders who will come out with military renown,rather than the BuUers, Methuens, Gatacres, orWhites. And there are Boer statesmen, too. Disasters ^^^® extreme dismay of England overto the Armies the disaster to Bullers armv at theen and Tugela River was due chiefly to theGatacre. f^gt that it Came as a climax, havingbeen preceded only a few days before by disas-ters of considerable magnitude to the army that 18 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REl^IEiVS.
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