Some South African Politicians

(Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1929). 8vo; original grey pictorial cloth; pictorial dustwrapper (torn, with loss); pp. (viii) + 195, incl. index; 16 cartoon plates by 'Quip'. Dustwrapper edgeworn and torn, with substantial loss to upper panel; endpapers, outer leaves and edges somewhat foxed, some spotting elsewhere. Very good condition, in a fair dustwrapper. (Hosken, p. 148) Lawrence Elwin Neame (1876-1964) "was a quiet, unassuming man whose forte was leader writing, which he developed into a fine art. He spent many years in the press gallery and had a wide knowledge of South African politics; one of his contemporaries, Scott Haigh, wrote of him: 'Few understand South African politics more deeply than this gentlest of kindly men with a delightful pen'." - DSAB IV, p. 400. The politicians profiled in this volume are the following: CABINET MINISTERS. General J. B. M. Hertzog, T. J. Roos, Dr. D. F. Malan, F. H. P. Creswell, N. C. Havenga, F. W. Beyers, C. W. Malan, P. G. W. Grobler, J. C. G. Kemp, T. Boydell, H. W. Sampson. EX-CABINET MINISTERS. General J. C. Smuts, Sir Thomas Smartt, F. S. Malan, J. W. Jagger, Patrick Duncan, N. J. de Wet, H. Burton, Sir Thomas Watt, Colonel Deneys Reitz, W. B. Madeley. M.L.A.'S AND EX-M.L.A.'S. E. G. Jansen, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, C. J. Krige, Sir David Harris, Sir Drummond Chaplin, Sir Abe Bailey, Leslie Blackwell, R. Stuttaford, Morris Alexander, J. S. Marwick, A. G. Barlow. .