The Settlement after the War in South Africa by M. J. Farrelly (1900)

First edition published by Macmillan, London, 1900.

Library binding with new endpapers.

xv + 321pp.

Good condition but a reading copy.

'The author states that he had sought information in South Africa to enable him to write an unbiassed book on the burning questions affecting the Sub-Continent, and that with this end in view he took, on a basis for his work, three propositions: -

1. That Europeans have a right to immigrate to South Africa.

2. That the British and Dutch are equally entitled to be there.

3. That a "general agreement among South Africans as to a particular policy, or as to a particular state of things, is more likely to be correct than conclusions arrived at by home-staying politicians . . . "

He was of opinion that the issue between British or Dutch supremacy meant life or death to the Empire, and he refers to the vacillation displayed by the Home Government for nearly 100 years (1800-1900) and to the effect it has had on the Boers and their aims. The policy of the Afrikander Bond is discussed, more especially as to the denial by its leaders that there was any design to oust British influence, but the author maintained that the Afrikanders were taught to "eliminate all that is British," out of which was evolved the resolve to "drive the British into the sea." ' - Mendelssohn Vol. I, page 535

Anglo-Boer War, Anglo-Boereoorlog, ABO, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog