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this country are concerned ; but he is always anxious,

we take it, to do justice to all parties. It is needless to go into any details of the subject, except to notice what seems to be a well-informed enumeration of the forces engaged in the Transvaal War (pp. 288-89). He reckons that about twelve thousand of the Cape Colony Dutch were in arms against us ; that there were about three thousand miscellaneous foreigners ; and, from first to last, fifty-two thousand men from the Orange Free State and the Transvaal (forty-five thousand were, he calculates, under arms in December, 1899, the culminating point of the Boer fortunes). We, of course, were unprepared, partly because that is our way, partly because, Mr. Bryden thinks, we "wished, if possible, to avoid a war."