BOER POLITICS


BY YVES GUYOT

_Translated from the French_


LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1900




INTRODUCTION.


A word in explanation of this English edition is perhaps not
unnecessary.

It will be remembered that the arguments in the following pages appeared
originally in the columns of _Le Siècle_, and from the correspondence
between M. Yves Guyot and Dr. Kuyper and M. Brunetière (Appendix B), the
reader will understand how the publication of _Le Siècle_ articles in
pamphlet form arose.

In the month of May when M. Yves Guyot's _La Politique Boer_ made its
appearance, the supply of literature by more or less competent judges on
South African affairs was already so formidable in this country, that an