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CAMPAIGN PICTURES
OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA
(1899—1900)
Letters from the Front
A. G. HALES
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE
Dedication.
This book, such as it is, is dedicated to the man whose kindliness of heart and generous journalistic instincts lifted me from the unknown, and placed me where I had a chance to battle with the best men in my profession. He was the man who found Archibald Forbes, the most brilliant, accurate, and entertaining of all war correspondents. What he did for that splendid genius let Forbes' memoirs tell; what he did for me I will tell myself. He gave me the chance I had looked for for twenty years, and the dearest name in my memory to-day is the name of