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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12551, 3 January 1903, Page 6

Special Advertisements, important Announcement. [All Eights Reserved.! MEMOIRS _______ 01' ' PRESIDENT PAUL KRUGER TOLD BY HIMSELF And Recorded by H. C. BEEDELL, his Private Secretary, and PETER GROBkER, Ex-Under-Sccrefary of State. Under Special Arrangement with the Publisher, Mr T. FISHER UNWIN, the Proprietors of the OTAGO DAILY TIMES have pleasure in announcing that they have secured the EIGHT-TO PUBLISH in that Journal, Commencing on New Yeae's Day, Copious Extracts, totalling between 30,000 and 40,000 words, of the MOST INTERESTING FEATURES of Ex-President PAUL' KRUGER'S \ ' MEMOIRS. The importance to the Literary World of Paul Kruger's Memoirs, about to be published by Mr Fisher Unwin, is not political in the sense of giving his adherents cause to triumph, or his enemies occasion to condemn. The world will read with keenest interest the Autobiography of perhaps the most astute diplomatist of the latter half of the lasi century. The Book will be one to which tho future historian must inevitably repair, as the leading essay on the other side of the story. These Memoirs, which were dictated by Paul Kruger to his Private Secretaries, give the whole story of his life from the earlier experiences of childhood, his boyhood, early treks, hunting exploits, and so. forth, right up to the present day, with its sterner record of controversy and' war, on which latter subject tho ex-President speaks, from the Boer point of view, with authority, and not, as all other writers have done, with conjecture and hearsay. There is much new light shed on the Jameson Raid and the beginning of the evils which befel the land, and incidentally the Author contributes important opinions on the burning South African questions of tho Food Tariff, , Native Labour in relation to the Mines, ' tho Dynamite Monopoly, and Too Railway Tariff. Tho whole narrative is practically a new and powerfullywritten History of the Transvaal. The Publication of the Extracts from this intensely interesting Work will be continued throughout January and February, and will probably finish, about the close of the latter month.