Excerpt from Transvaal Problems: Some Notes on Current Politics
When I went on a visit to South Africa recently, it was with no intention of writing a book. Experience has taught me that there are more pleasant ways of spending the homeward voyage than that of sitting day after day in a hot cabin studying reports, analysing speeches, digesting statistics, and recording, even through the medium of a shorthand writer, the reflections inspired and the conclusions arrived at.
My object is to present in a consecutive shape information, much of which has already been published in a fragmentary way, and to consider, in the light of the most recent knowledge, a number of important questions, affecting in some instances the Transvaal alone, and in others the whole of South Africa. In the retrospect I was tempted to drift into reminiscences of the early days, as the reader will see, and had to check the impulse ruthlessly, passing to a short historical review from 1881 to the termination of the late war. The chapters upon the work of reconstruction and upon the industrial and labour questions do not call for preliminary remarks.
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