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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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reak. Lord Randolph, who, when the Liberal Govern- ■ment was thrown out in 1885, declared that he hadtried every sensation in life and found even tiger-shooting pall before the raptures of party strife whenan administration was overthrown, seems to havefound one excitement which he had not yet tasted.He could make haste to be rich by taking up a goldmine or two in the Tom Tiddlers ground of SouthAfrica. A sa3ing was attributed to him, when heleft England, to the effect that there was nothingelse left worth living for in the world except beinga millionaire. That proud position is not one, how-ever, that can be approached by a hop, skip, andjump, no, not even in South Africa. WHien LordRandolph discovered that even in the Land of Ophirfortunes were not to be picked up on every ant-hillhe seems to have experienced a bitter disillusion,and, as persons of his temperament are wont to do,he gave full and petulant expression to this in hi.s.letters home. Of these letters the charitable wilB
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IV/TH MR. RHODES THROUGH MASHONALAND. ;ui «ay as little as is compatible with a due observanceof the familiar precept, de mortuis nil nisi honum.They display conspicuous absence of the qualitieswhich should distinguish either a statesman or aspecial correspondent. The future of South Africa depends upon thehearty union between the European races. LordEaudolph contrived at an early stage to excite thealmost savage contempt of the Boers. The futureof British dominion in South Africa is bound upwith the development of the British South AfricanCompanys enterprise in Mashonaland. Lord Ran-dolph has done what in him lay to throw the futureinto the hands of the Transvaal Boers, to whom, ifhe had succeeded, would fall the reversion of Mr.Rhodes magnificent enterprise. With the excep-tion of those who have speculated for a fall in SouthAfrican shares, it would be difficult to name anysection of the community which Lord RandolphChurchills letters have benefited. As lettefs, theyhave been somew

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