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gimbleted black face, heads without facaa and faces
without anything below.. " and a couple of lines later
was delighting in tho steam rolloring war machine, "! Jot
a flaw, not a checks not a jolt; and not a fleck on its
Chinin; success. Once morel hurrah$ hurrah, hurrah 1" (1
This was the book of which a reviewer in the Plonconformict
British Wtookly, romarktd, ''Thin it, a book to buy and to
keep and to turn over if ever the flame of patriotism burns
low. lie should like our children to read it in the
schools, "
(2)
Bennett justified the use of explosive
bullets in wars against navagen, "The nervouE system of the
oavaCe in a far loon delicate organism# and nothing short
of a crushing blow will check his wild oncot, r''(3)
The cocrercial pracpectz of the Sudan were, in
1898v only a minor consideration and were often discounted,
"The Sudan is a do®ort and a dopopulated deoert... ßum
erabic and ostrich feathere and Dongola dated will hardly
buy cotton atuffe enough for Lancashire to feel the
(1) lbidg p. 151.
i rrýrir. u ý muýrrýrn... r
(2) British Wi ekly 13th October 1$9$,
(3) B. N. Beun©tt, 001!
it, p'229,