An American With Lord Roberts (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from An American With Lord Roberts These records of the South African war, in continuation of my former volume, "Towards Pretoria," are practically fresh, and are mainly on subjects of wide interest. They include material which has never been published anywhere, as well as much that has not before been presented to the American public. Even those chapters which originally appeared in the "Daily Mail" as letters from the front have, in many cases, been recast and extended. I desire here to thank Mr. Alfred Harmsworth for his generous permission to make this new use of the material. One chapter appeared in "Harper's Magazine," and another in "The Century Magazine," and these, also, have been subjected to material changes. The fault of delay in the publication of the book is thus, I hope, atoned for by the careful revision of that which was not new, and the liberal addition of material especially prepared for this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.