Excerpt from Things Seen: Impressions of Men, Cities, and Books Kimberley, Paardeberg, Pieter's Hill, Bloemfontein, Kroonstadt, with Mafeking rewarded for her bril liant and heroic feat of arms, with what was the Orange Free State British territory, and with Lord Roberts knocking dreadfully at the heart of the Transvaal Republic; and I cannot choose but reflect upon the fact that these victorious feats all come to me the less triumphingly for that his part in them is not. He had many friends, so that in this I am by no means singular; and our consolation is that he was so good an Englishman that, were it now possible, he would be the first to rebuke us for our cowardice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.