A Subaltern's Letters to His Wife (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A gifted war-correspondent once wrote, at Bloemfon tein, a long article in the Friend newspaper on 'the Inexpressible Veldt.' I thought at the time, after a cur sory consideration both of the internal and external evidence afforded by the length of the said article and the general physical features of South Africa, that the writer ought to have headed his screed The Expressionless Veldt. A thing about which a correspondent, busied with other matters, and feeling the effects of the heat, can dash of four columns between sunset and sunrise, is hardly to be termed inexpressible. And yet one could sympathise with that author there is a fine flavour of the oxymoron about his title which whets the literary appetite, as though a man should say This is not for mortals to express, and lo here are four columns.' But I have corrected my first impressions.

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