Front matter

Photo: E. H. Mills

THE RT. HON. CECIL RHODES

CECIL RHODES

MAN AND EMPIRE-MAKER

BY

Princess Catherine Radziwill

(CATHERINE KOLB-DANVIN)

With Eight Photogravure Plates

CASSELL & COMPANY, LTD

London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne

1918

CONTENTS

1. CECIL RHODES AND SIR ALFRED MILNER 1

2. THE FOUNDATIONS OF FORTUNE 17

3. A COMPLEX PERSONALITY 28

4. MRS. VAN KOOPMAN 40

5. RHODES AND THE RAID 50

6. THE AFTERMATH OF THE RAID 69

7. RHODES AND THE AFRIKANDER BOND 82

8. THE INFLUENCE OF SIR ALFRED MILNER 104

9. THE OPENING OF THE NEW CENTURY 120

10. AN ESTIMATE OF SIR ALFRED MILNER 130

11. CROSS CURRENTS 144

12. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS 157

13. THE PRISONERS' CAMPS 170

14. IN FLIGHT FROM THE RAND 191

15. DEALING WITH THE REFUGEES 202

16. UNDER MARTIAL LAW 214

CONCLUSION

INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE RT. HON. CECIL RHODES Frontispiece

THE RT. HON. W.P. SCHREINER 32

PRESIDENT KRUGER 68

THE HON. J.H. HOFMEYR 86

THE RT. HON. SIR W.F. HELY-HUTCHINSON 98

VISCOUNT MILNER 132

THE RT. HON. SIR LEANDER STARR JAMESON 148

THE RT. HON. SIR JOHN GORDON SPRIGG 224