Author: William Gifford

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9781390899344

Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 192: July and October, 1900 We shall by and by-ihave occasion to note some striking examples of omission, which render the Digest' nearly value leas to the historical student. We can only conjecture that the editor's original intention was to expand the Tables of Contents which he has prefixed to these volumes of London Records' by incorporating with them a catalogue of the principal documents to he found at Cape Town. We venture to wish, for more than one mason, that thin course had been adopted. For one thing, we should have been s the uncomfortable impression that this epitome of the is little more than a 'digest' of Dr. Theal' it own 'history, without any correction 0 tion of facts or statements which, as we shall presently see, are not wholly warranted by these authentic documents. In almost ph we are able to recognise the actual words of Md and everywhere the conclusions of the History' have been closely followed, without any indication whatever that the purely personal opinions expressed in that 'history' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.