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Collapse of a Dream. Rhodes had no doubts on this point. In an ill-starred moment he financed and supported the famed "Jameson Raid," in which a band of armed adventurers invaded the South African Republic. The Raid failed miserably. But it shocked the world. For Rhodes, the failure of Jameson's Raid was a catastrophe. The British Government repudiated him; he resigned from the Cape Parliament, of which he was Prime Minister. His dream of all Africa as a British colony collapsed, and along with it his plans for a "secret society" of wealth and brains that would...
...edition of letters (the most complete in 80 years) Felix' frivolity bubbles as brightly as it does in his music. In London the young man of fashion found "Such a whirl! It is mad! I am quite giddy and confused. . . . Lady Morgan was there, and Winterhalter, and Mrs. Jameson, and Duprez, who . . . sang a French romance. . . . Who can count them...
...JOURNAL OF MARY HERVEY RUSSELL-Storm Jameson-Macmillan...
Labeled fiction, this is an obviously auto biographical melange of English Novelist Jameson's reminiscences and reactions to the war. Intelligent, sensitive and read able despite its overelaborate style...
...Felt. The failure of communications could not dim the assault correspondents' heroism. The A.P.'s Henry B. Jameson was the first American newsman casualty. The craft he rode to France was offshore 14 hours, frequently under heavy fire. Hit in the shoulder and leg, Reporter Jameson was able to walk off smiling (see put). First killed: the British Exchange Telegraph's Arthur Thorpe, in a naval action...