. Review of reviews and world's work. GEN. PIET CRONJE. ¥Yom Black and White (London). of the achievement by which 40,000 or 50,000well equipped troops had secured tlie surrenderof 4,000 farmers. The average British jingo isprobably more deficient in the sense of humorthan any other contemporary type of man. It had now become the obvious partoflafusmfth ^^ wisdom for the Boers to withdraw from the neighborhood of they did with entire success, taking theirguns with them, although to cover their retreatthey kept up a show of steady resistance to Gen-eral Bullers fourth, or, as som
. Review of reviews and world's work. GEN. PIET CRONJE. ¥Yom Black and White (London). of the achievement by which 40,000 or 50,000well equipped troops had secured tlie surrenderof 4,000 farmers. The average British jingo isprobably more deficient in the sense of humorthan any other contemporary type of man. It had now become the obvious partoflafusmfth ^^ wisdom for the Boers to withdraw from the neighborhood of they did with entire success, taking theirguns with them, although to cover their retreatthey kept up a show of steady resistance to Gen-eral Bullers fourth, or, as some writers reckonit, his fifth attempt to reach the beleaguered siege of Ladysmith had lasted for 118 garrison had suffered from failing food sup-plies and the prevalence of disease. The tone ofthe jingo press in England in its exultation overthe relief of Ladysmith is well shown in the fol- 398 THEAMERICAN MONTHLY REFIEIV OF THE TOWN Of LAUYSMITH. lowing sentence, which appeared in the mostwidely circulated London newspaper : Tlie Al-mighty God, Whose arm is strengtli, has blessedthe efforts of General BuUers army in Natal withcomplete victory. The forces of Buller andWliite combined could not liave been less tlian40,000. Ladysmitli was entered on Marcli at any time since tlie beginning of Januarywas the Boer force in that neighborhood largerthan 7,000, and for some lime previous to theBoer withdrawal at the end of February the num-ber had been much smaller. Bullers completevictory, therefore, when stripped of the rhetoricof liritish jingoism, reduces itself to the simpleproposition that four or five thousand Boers pi-u-dently and safely marchetl away with all that wasvaluable of their belongings, and left ten times asmany Englishmen in unmolested possession ofthe British town of Ladysmitli. This, indeed,was a most substantial desideratum for the Eng-lish, but it was not exactly an exhibition ofsu
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