. Review of reviews and world's work. one. The Executive Mansion is the rendezvous ofevery Boer who visits Pretoria, and MadameKriiger shares equally with her husband tl:epleasant task of entertaining all who come in amanner which is highly gratifying to admirersof democratic institutions. There are no socialdistinctions among the Boers, and the country LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 79 girl who has never been outside the boundariesof her fathers farm is on the same social planeat the Executive Mansion as the city girl whohas just returned from a Parisian ladies semi-nary ; nor does the city g
. Review of reviews and world's work. one. The Executive Mansion is the rendezvous ofevery Boer who visits Pretoria, and MadameKriiger shares equally with her husband tl:epleasant task of entertaining all who come in amanner which is highly gratifying to admirersof democratic institutions. There are no socialdistinctions among the Boers, and the country LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 79 girl who has never been outside the boundariesof her fathers farm is on the same social planeat the Executive Mansion as the city girl whohas just returned from a Parisian ladies semi-nary ; nor does the city girl pretend to besocially superior. Vanity is not a characteristicof the Boer girl ; on the contrary, it is her loveof others that gives her a high place in the opin-ions of those who have seen her. THE BOER AS A CAMPAIGNER. A MILITARY writer in Blackwoods for De-cember gives some personal observations,made in the former British campaign against theBoers, which throw light on the methods of Boerwarfare followed in the present war. .. BUKK ( AVALRY SCOUTSS. This writer, while not an admirer of the Boer,concedes to him the quality of pluck. He is figliting for all he holds most dear,and he is fighting on his own dunghill. He isas hard as nuts, lias lived in the open air in themost healthy of climates, and can subsist on verylittle. Strips of meat dried in the sun are veryportable and do him very well : if a cup of coffeeis thrown in he has luxuries. He can ride well,and his pony is his own, who knows him and the country .as well as his master. He has a knowl-edge of the country and the ability to ride overit as our hunting men have at home. Marksmanship, mobility, little or no bag-gage or commissariat train, an excellent countryfor an out-of-door life—all good military condi-tions out of which he has evolved his are never to move in masses, to spreadover the country like a fan, always to make for abowlder, which is easy, as there are so many ofthem, to jump off hi
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