GENERAL SMUTS; 2 Volumes

Boston: Little Brown, 1936. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8 vo,. brown cloth, dust jackets, gilt spines, green spine labels, pp., vol.1; viii, 366: vol. 2,viii,460. illustrated, frontis. (both vols.), 7 full page plates (both vols.)both vols. indexed, Bibliography:"Published sources": [v. 1] p. 361-363; "References": [v. 1] p. 364-375., books and d.j's in FINE condition,, in protective mylar. CONTENTS: Boers and Britons -- Smuts wants a friend -- He says he has no taste -- He discovers Shelley -- He goes to Cambridge -- He analyses Whitman -- He praises Rhodes -- Kruger and Milner -- Smuts: Second-Class Burgher: State Attorney -- The Uitlanders appeal to Her Majesty -- Who made the Boer War? -- 'Flying Fox won the derby' -- Smuts tries to prevent war -- 'A century of wrong' -- Life's greatest satisfaction -- Boer dream -- Boer despair -- Guerrilla -- Commandant-General Smuts -- 'My duty' -- Peace -- 'My soul is weary of my life' -- Celestial messengers -- Smuts and Campbell-Bannerman -- Smuts and Botha -- Smuts and Gandhi -- A union of brothers -- That three hundred pounds -- Merely Jan Christian Smuts -- The dissatisfaction of General Hertzog -- Smuts versus strikers -- German administration in Africa -- German ambition in Africa -- Number fifteen on a dark cloud -- The five shilling rebellion -- The first allied success: German south-west Africa -- 'The hell into which I have wandered' -- Lieutenant-General Smuts -- The conquest of German East Africa -- The British War Cabinet..