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Title: Cecil Rhodes
Man and Empire-Maker

Author: Princess Catherine Radziwill

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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

[Illustration: THE RT. HON. CECIL RHODES]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

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

Facing page

THE RT. HON. W.P. SCHREINER 32
PRESIDENT KRUGER