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No. 1883 Mayfair. November, 19 10. 



Mr. Edward Arnold's 



LIST OF NEW BOOKS, 



1910. 



THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. 

 CECIL JOHN RHODES, 



1853^1902. 



By the Hon. Sir LEWIS MICHELL, 



Me.mbei.: ok the Execuii\e Council, Cai-e Colony. 



Two Volumes. With Illustratious. Demy 8vo., 30s. net. 



This important work will take rank as the standard bio<(raphy 

 of one of the greatest of modern Englishmen. Sir Lewis Michell, 

 who has been engaged on the work for five years, is an executor of 

 Mr. Rhodes's will and a Trustee of the Rhodes Estate. He was 

 an intimate personal friend of Mr. Rhodes for many years, and has 

 had access to all the papers at Groote Schuur. Hitherto, although 

 many partial appreciations of the great man have been published in 

 the Press or in small volumes, no complete and well-informed life of 

 him has appeared. The gap has now been filled by Sir Lewis 

 Michell so thoroughly that we have in these two volumes what will 

 undoubtedly be the final estimate of Mr. Rhodes's career for many 

 years to come. The author, although naturally in sympathy with 

 his subject, writes with independence and discernment on the many 

 critical questions of the tiine ; his narrative is very lucid and very 

 interesting, and the reader is made to feel the dominating personality 

 of Mr. Rhodes in every phase of South African history and develop- 

 ment. It is no small tribute to the book to say that, after reading 

 it, even those who never met Mr. Rhodes can well understand the 

 magic influence he seemed to e.xert upon all who came in contact 

 with him in his life-time. 



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