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 " Only believe in your idea, and it will carry you 
 through every difficulty. If you live, you will do great 
 things; if you die — well! how can you die better? and 
 your idea will not die." — Hubert Hervey.
 
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 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 STUDENT AND IMPERIALIST 
 
 A MEMOIR 
 
 BY 
 
 EARL GREY 
 
 LATE ADMINISTRATOR OF RHODESIA 
 
 " // is a grand thing to die for the expansion of the Empire ' 
 
 Hubert Hervey 
 
 LONDON 
 
 EDWARD ARNOLD 
 
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 1899
 
 TO 
 THE CIVIL SERVANTS OF RHODESIA 
 
 THIS SHORT MEMOIR OF ONE WHO 
 
 SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THEIR RANKS 
 
 IS DEDICATED 
 
 WITH GRATITUDE AND RESPECT
 
 PREFACE 
 
 My knowledge of Hubert Hervey during the 
 last few years of his short career, when he was 
 serving the British South Africa Chartered Com- 
 pany, first in their London offices, and subsequently 
 in responsible administrative posts in Ehodesia, 
 led me to regard him as one of the most chivalrous 
 and high-minded men it has been my privilege 
 to meet ; and I have readily responded to a request 
 made to me by his sister, on the suggestion of 
 many of his friends, to write this short memoir. 
 The deep sympathy I felt for Miss Hervey in 
 the sudden termination of one of the most inspir- 
 ing relationships that ever bound brother and 
 sister together also made it difficult for me to 
 refuse a task which I was aware it was not easy 
 to perform in a manner worthy of the memory 
 of Hubert Hervey, or satisfactory to his family. 
 
 When the memoir, which originally was intended 
 for private circulation only, was nearing comple- 
 
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 vi PREFACE 
 
 tion, it was represented to me that the story of 
 Hervey's life might prove an encouragement to 
 others ; and, in deference to this suggestion, I have 
 given my consent to its publication. It contains, 
 on the one hand, much which might with advan- 
 tage be eliminated from a memoir intended for 
 the public ; on the other hand, it presents many 
 deficiencies, which his friends will easily fill up 
 from their recollections. For such was the wealth 
 of Hervey's individuality, that he left to all who 
 were acquainted with him an abundant store of 
 memories — varied, original, and characteristic. 
 
 But the attraction of his personality was rooted 
 in the yet deeper strata of great principles and 
 high ideals. 
 
 And it is with the desire that this brief record 
 may in some degree perpetuate the memory of 
 an Englishman, whose inspiring example has been 
 too soon removed from our midst, that I place 
 these pages before the public. 
 
 GREY.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preface v 
 
 Chap. I. Eton and Cambridge i 
 
 II. Dreams in London 19 
 
 III. In the Chartered Company's Office . . 41 
 
 IV. En Route for the Frontier .... 62 
 V. The Matabele War 80 
 
 VI. At Work under Jameson 96 
 
 VII. The Second Matabele War . . . .123 
 VIII. The Last Fight 133 
 
 Appendix 147 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Portrait of Hubert Hervey .... Frontispiece 
 Memorial Bronze in Bulawayo Hospital . To face page 1 
 
 Hubert Hervey's Grave 134 
 
 Brass Tablet in Sandringham Church .... 146

 
 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE 
 (1859-1881) 
 
 There is a tendency, in the present day, which 
 exhibits itself in literature, in conversation, and 
 even in thought, to assume that those finer feelings 
 which were once regarded as the heritage of our 
 race are becoming extinct, or, at most, are kept 
 alive by sordid motives. Chivalry is dubbed 
 Quixotism ; honour is sneered at as sentimentality ; 
 and patriotism is too often attributed to a mere 
 desire for personal aggrandizement. 
 
 Nevertheless, at home and abroad, we daily 
 receive proofs that there still exist, hi every part 
 of our vast empire, men who are inspired by those 
 sentiments and ambitions which have contributed 
 to make England what she is, and without which 
 no nation can become or can remain great. 
 
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 2 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 From time to time, there rises up a life in which 
 these nobler instincts seem gathered together and, 
 as it were, typified. The ideal which appeared 
 remote or unpractical is made real to us by a 
 living example. The mean and the transitory 
 fade away, and those larger issues of our national 
 existence, which may be obscured but cannot 
 be obliterated, resume their true proportions in 
 the presence of a life devoted to their service. 
 
 Hubert John Antony Hervey was a man of 
 this type. Born on May 19, 1859, at 47, Eaton 
 Place, he was the youngest son of Lord and Lady 
 Alfred Hervey ; grandson of Frederick William, 
 first Marquess of Bristol ; great-grandson of the 
 clever but eccentric Bishop of Derry (Lord Bristol) ; 
 and great-great-grandson of John Lord Hervey, the 
 memoir-writer. 
 
 From his mothers side he inherited military 
 proclivities. His grandfather, General Chester of 
 the Horse Artillery, served in the Peninsular War ; 
 his uncle, Colonel St. Leger (then Chester), was 
 dangerously wounded at Sobraon in the Sikh War 
 of 1846 \ 
 
 The earliest years of Hubert Hervey 's childhood 
 
 1 Mr. Charles Chester, grandfather of Lady Alfred Hervey, was 
 the second son of Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, and brother of the
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE 3 
 
 were spent in Ireland, at Castle Upton, the home 
 of his father's cousin, Lord Templetown. 
 
 In 1864, one of Hubert's elder brothers, a boy 
 of brilliant promise, who had passed into the Navy 
 at the head of all competitors, died of fever in 
 his sixteenth year whilst serving on the Mediter- 
 ranean station. 
 
 A year and a half later, Lord Alfred Hervey, 
 having lost his seat in Parliament in the General 
 Election of 1865, decided to abandon politics and 
 to spend some time abroad 1 . In the spring 
 of 1866 he took his family to France, paying 
 periodical visits to England for his waitings 
 on the Prince of Wales, or as other occasions 
 required. 
 
 During their stay in France, Lord and Lady 
 Alfred Hervey travelled with their two youngest 
 
 first Lord Bagot. Mr. Charles Chester changed his name from 
 Bagot to Chester on inheriting the estate of Chicheley, Bucks. 
 
 1 Lord Alfred Hervey represented in Parliament the borough of 
 Brighton from 1841 to 1857. He was a member of Lord Aberdeen's 
 Government, holding under it the offices of a Lord of the Treasury 
 and Keeper of the Privy Seal of the Duchy of Cornwall. From 1859 
 to 1865 he sat in Parliament for the borough of Bury St. Edmunds. 
 In 1852, on the formation of the Prince of Wales' household, he 
 was appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber, resigning this office in 
 1871, on being appointed by Mr. Gladstone, whom he had steadily 
 supported while in Parliament, Receiver-General of Inland Revenue. 
 Lord Alfred Hervey died in April, 1875. 
 
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 4 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 children, Hubert and his sister Mary, in a light 
 covered waggonette driven by Lord Alfred, through 
 Brittany and Normandy ; then down the west of 
 France by Angers, Saumur, Bordeaux and Bayonne 
 to Biarritz, where they wintered ; passing the 
 early half of 1867 in the Pyrenees at Bagneres-de- 
 Bigorre, the winter again at Biarritz, and returning 
 to England in the spring of 1868. 
 
 Although only eight years old, and at this time 
 small for his age, Hubert, who had fine, silky, 
 golden hair and a brilliant complexion, was remark- 
 able for his intelligent and serious appreciation of 
 the architectural beauties of the churches he visited ; 
 for his passionate love of wild flowers, and his 
 lynx-eyed detection of new specimens ; and also for 
 a certain sedateness of manner, which gave peculiar 
 distinction to his little personality. Beneath this 
 sedateness there was, however, a deep though care- 
 fully subdued enthusiasm. A spectator, of whom 
 he was unconscious, recollects to this day the rapt 
 gaze with which he stood before the statue of 
 the Chevalier Bayard, when passing through 
 Paris early in 1868. He was then in his ninth 
 year. 
 
 In January, 1870, Hubert was placed at Mr. 
 Darch's preparatory school at Brighton ; and in
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE 5 
 
 September, 1871, he went to Eton to Mr. Lux- 
 moore's house. A quick and continual succession 
 of new faces naturally tends to dull a tutor's 
 recollection of old pupils, but so marked was the 
 individuality of young Hervey, that Mr. Luxmoore 
 writes of him to-day, at a distance of over twenty- 
 five years, as if he were still at Eton. 
 
 ' Hubert Hervey came to me in September, 1871; 
 he was then twelve years and a few months old, 
 and would be by a year and a half younger than 
 most of our boys at entrance. . . . His room 
 was the third from that in which I am now writing, 
 and I can see him quite plainly, and hear the 
 tones of his voice. He was small and delicate- 
 looking when he came, and very attractive, partly 
 for that reason. You would know at once that 
 he had ability and a refined nature. He was 
 fair and light in colour, with rather bright hair ; 
 he spoke with a soft voice in rather a finished 
 manner. He had humour and something I might 
 call " style " or distinction. He had intelligent 
 interests too, and read more than other boys, not 
 spending perhaps more time on books, but reading 
 better literature than they. He was placed at 
 starting in Upper Middle Fourth, which was for 
 his age good, and was even further improved by
 
 6 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 a double remove, so that he was in Remove before 
 he was thirteen, and by fifteen and a half he was 
 in Upper Fifth. 
 
 ' He was certainly a boy of promise, and I can 
 recollect building many hopes on him and wishing 
 to do my very best for him. . . . Whatever draw- 
 backs there were, they never to my knowledge 
 harmed Hubert. He was a good and high-minded 
 boy, who seemed, I think, to carry his own atmo- 
 sphere with him. He may have distinguished 
 himself less in games than might have been the 
 case in maturer surroundings, or he may have 
 been less concentrated on his work ; but his name 
 comes in the list of those " sent up for good," 
 and his place in the school, and some of his 
 " collection " lists still preserved, show him among 
 the foremost in all his subjects. He worked well, 
 and he played with interest if not with distinction, 
 and he always had the character of a good and 
 able boy, with remarkable critical faculty, while 
 not without facility in original production. This 
 critical faculty was combined with humour, and 
 his rather finished grace of style made his talk 
 ready and his answers pointed. He was tenacious 
 of his opinions, and I can recollect once or twice 
 being a little disappointed at not finding him more
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE 7 
 
 willing to adopt my view. The disappointment 
 was not from his fault but from my strong wish 
 to be friends with, and to make the most of, the 
 few really promising boys that I then had. 
 
 ' He was specially good at French. In 1872 
 he got the Junior Prince Consort's Prize, being 
 in the same half "sent up" by so good a judge 
 as Mr. Thackeray ; while in 1874 he was, when 
 little over fifteen years of age, in the Senior Prince 
 Consort's Prize List, bracketed second with Lord 
 Curzon, the present Viceroy of India. 
 
 ' It was at the end of 1874 that he left. I 
 remember the announcement of this arrangement 
 was one of my great disappointments. Had he 
 stayed at Eton, he would have gained considerable 
 distinction. I had built hopes on him ; he was 
 doing well, and I very much doubted whether 
 any better training would be found for him. For 
 Woolwich, of course, German had to be mastered ; 
 and it was thought good to combine that with 
 other things by carrying on his classical work 
 through the medium of German ; but to me the 
 Army then did not seem his most suitable career. 
 I had looked on him as better suited to civil 
 employment : partly from the slightness of his 
 frame, and a certain want of robustness ; partly
 
 8 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 from his literary promise and intelligence. I had 
 not recognised the more spirited qualities which 
 his after-history showed that he possessed. I have 
 seen a note of my own written to his father in 
 that year, and am even now glad ... to see 
 with what . . . unqualified praise I was able to 
 speak of him.' 
 
 Mr. Luxmoore quotes, as the solitary scrape in 
 which Hervey was involved at Eton, an incident 
 which reveals his boyish audacity and humour. 'It 
 was on November 5, and an edict had been 
 specially issued against boys letting off fireworks. 
 In the course of the evening a squib issued from 
 a window in my house, and the law took its course.' 
 Hubert justified his conduct on the ground 
 that he did not wish to leave Eton without 
 completing the round of his experience ! 
 
 He left Eton, to Mr. Luxmoore's great regret, 
 at the end of 1874, and went to Dresden. After 
 six months' study with a tutor he had mastered 
 German so tho oughly as to enable him to enter 
 the Neustadt Gymnasium. 
 
 Shortly after he arrived at Dresden, he discovered 
 that the tutor with whom he had been placed was 
 given to habits of drinking. Greatly distressed 
 at this discovery, he solemnly told his tutor that,
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE 9 
 
 unless he mended his ways, he should be obliged 
 to part company with him. The tutor improved 
 for a short time, but, breaking out again, he was 
 promptly dismissed by young Hervey, who wrote 
 home to his parents to tell them what he had 
 done. At Dresden he worked hard for over a 
 year, with longer hours and less exercise than he 
 had been accustomed to ; but he held his own 
 against German boys of the same age, doing all 
 his work in German, and acquiring a reputation 
 for unusual capacity and finished scholarship. 
 
 While at Dresden his father died, and his 
 mother, influenced by the marked aptitude Hubert 
 had shown for scholarship, as much as by the 
 desire to keep him near her, decided to substitute 
 a University career for the plan of sending him 
 into the army. 
 
 Accordingly, he returned to England, and was 
 for some time with a private tutor, the Rev. John 
 Bond \ in Lincolnshire, before going to Trinity 
 College, Cambridge, in October, 1877. 
 
 His most intimate friend at this time was 
 Mr. Robert J. Parker 2 , whose acquaintance, begun 
 
 1 Now Archdeacon of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln. 
 
 2 Now a rising barrister, son of the late Rev. Richard Parker, 
 Vicar of Clanby, Lincolnshire.
 
 io HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 in Dresden, had been continued in Lincolnshire, 
 where the Parker family were neighbours of the 
 tutor, Mr. Bond, with whom Hervey was reading. 
 Mr. Parker writes of these days : — 
 
 1 It was while in Dresden that I first really 
 got to know Hubert. After he left Germany, he 
 went to a tutor in the Lincolnshire Marsh. We 
 lived about eight miles away, at Clanby, near 
 Alford ; and Hubert used to come over, and 
 frequently stayed with us in vacation time. He 
 was very fond of my father, and drove with him 
 about the country, discussing Church politics and 
 disestablishment. He was always a welcome guest, 
 and fell at once into our family habits, including 
 that of arguing on every conceivable subject. . . . 
 
 ' I don't remember that Hubert ever spoke at 
 the Union [at Cambridge], but he was often there. 
 His eyes gave him serious trouble while he was 
 at Cambridge, which much impeded his work, 
 though probably he got as much good from taking 
 more part in the social life of the place as he 
 would have done had he been able to devote 
 more time to reading. 
 
 ' . . . Gerald Balfour was a good deal senior 
 to either of us. He was in our time a lecturer ; 
 and Hubert and I both attended his lectures on
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE n 
 
 the early Greek philosophers, though not, I think, 
 the same course. I remember we both also 
 attended Dr. Jackson's lectures on the same subject, 
 and were much interested in comparing the methods 
 of the two men. . . .' 
 
 Speaking of Hervey's Cambridge friends, Mr. 
 Parker continues : ' He knew J. K. Stephen 1 and 
 John Mansfield 2 very well. He was also intimate 
 with Sir Laurence Jones '-\ Reginald St. John Parry 
 (now a tutor and dean of Trinity College), and 
 the late Professor Goodhart of Edinburgh. All 
 these, except J. K. Stephen, were of Trinity College ; 
 Stephen was a King's man. Hubert also knew 
 Karl Pearson of King's 4 . We used to meet in 
 the rooms of Professor Protheroe, of Bradshaw, 
 the late University Librarian, and J. E. Nixon, 
 all Fellows of King's.' 
 
 Other Cambridge friends were Atherton Byrom, 
 Frere, Macnamara, and Reade 5 . 
 
 1 The brilliant son of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. Mr. J. K. 
 Stephen, the author of Lapsus Calami, died Feb. 3, 1892. 
 
 2 The Hon. John Mansfield, brother of Lord Sandhurst, Governor 
 of Bombay. 
 
 3 Sir Laurence Jones, Bart., of Cranmer Hall. Norfolk. 
 
 4 Now Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College, 
 London ; author of The Ethics of Free Thought, The Chances of Death, 
 and other essays. 
 
 5 The two last-named died but a very few years later : Macnamara 
 in an accident on the Alps, Reade from heart disease.
 
 12 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 The boy who at Eton had impressed even his 
 elders with the distinction of his personality, 
 carrying as it seemed his ' own atmosphere ' with 
 him, was not less remarkable at Cambridge for 
 that originality of mind and character which 
 belongs to his race, and gave rise to Lady Mary 
 Wortley Montagu's famous division of the human 
 species into men, women, and Herveys. 
 
 One illustration is sufficient to show his almost 
 Quixotic sense of honour. 
 
 Just before the examination was held for a 
 Trinity Scholarship, young Hervey, whose success 
 was anticipated as certain, suddenly left Cam- 
 bridge, and only returned when the examination 
 was concluded. His disappearance on the eve of 
 the examination caused the greatest astonishment 
 in high quarters. Mr. Munro, the well-known 
 editor of Lucretius, on meeting Hubert's eldest 
 brother, the Rev. F. A. J. Hervey 1 , who happened 
 to be in Cambridge, rushed excitedly across the 
 street, exclaiming, 'What in the world can have 
 induced your brother to leave Cambridge just as 
 that examination was coming on? It was a dead 
 certainty for him. There was not another man 
 in, who could approach him.' 
 
 1 Rector of Sandringham and Canon of Norwich.
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE 13 
 
 On being pressed for an explanation of his con- 
 duct, Hubert admitted that some friend had given 
 him some trifling information, intending it to be 
 of use to him in the examination. Imagining this 
 might give him an unfair advantage over his rivals, 
 his chivalrous sense of honour forbade him to 
 compete, and he quietly went away. No wonder 
 that Mr. Oscar Browning, who was a lecturer at 
 King's during Hervey's residence at Cambridge, 
 writes of him that his chief characteristics were 
 directness, straightforwardness, and uprightness of 
 character, coupled with a moral courage winch 
 never flinched, and that his personality was one 
 which was not easily forgotten by those who knew 
 him. In the opinion of Mr. Oscar Browning, 
 Hervey's knowledge of modern languages, his 
 clear business habits, and his unfailing courtesy 
 qualified him in an exceptional degree for posts 
 of high responsibility and importance. 
 
 At one time Hervey hesitated whether to read 
 for the History Tripos or the Classical. He had 
 always taken a deep interest in history ; but 
 he chose the weightier task and determined to 
 seek Honours in Classics. The eye-trouble, how- 
 ever, winch had originated in the close work of 
 the Dresden Gymnasium, now seriously interfered
 
 i 4 HUBEET HERVEY 
 
 with his studies. The inflammatory tendency 
 troubled him increasingly ; and during the greater 
 part of his residence at Cambridge, including all 
 the latter terms, he could only work by being 
 read aloud to. The burden of reading only by 
 proxy, and the strain that the break-down of his 
 sight entailed on his whole nervous system, told 
 seriously on his health. For a time his eyes were 
 so troublesome that he had to abandon all study 
 and go abroad with his mother and sister. But, 
 with characteristic courage, he determined to per- 
 sist to the end ; and obtained a Second Class in 
 the Classical Tripos of 1881. That he should 
 have been able, working under these serious dis- 
 advantages, to obtain so good a degree, illustrates 
 alike his ability and his perseverance. 
 
 His early letters have not, of course, the maturity 
 of later ones, but are interesting illustrations of 
 his thoughts and occupations at nineteen years 
 of age. 
 
 Whiston, Sept. 8, 1878. 
 
 ' . . . I have been doing but little reading,' he 
 writes to Robert J. Parker ; * the only thing I have 
 read being the Lehrjalire, which I have just finished, 
 and begun the Wanderjahre. My impression of
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE 15 
 
 the former, as far as it is formed at all, is that it 
 is a story with total absence of art, but with some 
 well-drawn characters and some very fine passages 
 in it. The last especially I like . . . and I am 
 not at all disappointed with it on the whole : on 
 the contrary I have learnt an immense deal. 
 The " Bekenntnisse einer schonen Seele" is perhaps 
 the finest thing in the book ... I can't say I admire 
 Wilhelm, he seems a weak fickle sort of creature, 
 perhaps a little like Rousseau, only not so bad. 
 The "Leitmotiv" seems to have some connexion 
 with Faust ; Faust- Wilhelm, Werner- Wagner, the 
 moral in each being "Bildung" and "Thatigkeit" 
 and experience from life. Of course as the book 
 is written for instruction, the want of art is 
 pardonable. But the book gives one the impres- 
 sion of a disconnected whole, and one's interest 
 is drawn first to one side and then to another ; 
 first being fixed on Wilhelm, and then one gets 
 so interested in Lothario that one almost forgets 
 the hero. The introduction, too, of " Bekenntnisse 
 einer schonen Seele," though splendid in itself, 
 destroys the continuity of the story, and takes 
 away one's interest from the main points. It is 
 curious that Goethe, with all his love of art, should 
 so often have been deficient in it.'
 
 16 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 The Rectory, Sandringham, 
 Dec. 29, 1878. 
 
 ' For your scrap of a letter proportionate thanks. 
 Where are Virchow's and Hackel's speeches to be 
 found? As for "Evolution" ... it is at best 
 but a theory, though in some respects a plausible 
 one ; and Hackel is far more illogical than the 
 Pope, for the latter professes to be informed by 
 the Spirit of God, and, if one believes that, one 
 must also believe in the Pope ; whereas Hackel, 
 as an atheist, must ipso facto prove conclusively 
 before he can claim belief. Intolerance and bigotry 
 are not confined to the Church.' 
 
 Paris, Feb. 28, 1879. 
 
 '. . . I bought on my way here an ultra-Repub- 
 lican paper, La Bepublique (not of course La It. 
 Franpaise), which furiously attacked Waddington 
 for his foreign policy, saying it was "Anglaise"; 
 and also gave an amusing account of Lord Beacons- 
 field's policy. The Zulu disaster, it is said, was 
 trumped up for the purpose of destroying and 
 disarming the Opposition in England. It had not 
 really taken place, and would soon be contradicted. 
 The object was to gain a pretext for sending a 
 lirge number of troops to Africa, in order to do
 
 ETON AND CAMBRIDGE 17 
 
 there what we had done in India. We had, it 
 said, annexed Cyprus ; Midhat Pasha was preparing 
 Syria, Muktar (or whoever is Governor) Crete, for 
 England ; Egypt would soon be appropriated ; like- 
 wise (I think) Asia Minor ; we had our emissaries 
 in Abyssinia ; and soon the whole plot would be 
 revealed : namely the annexation of Syria, Crete, 
 Egypt, Suez, and Africa, more or less generally 
 to the destruction of French interests in those 
 countries.' 
 
 Mentone, March 12, 1879. 
 
 * . . . I am writing to you on a most splendid 
 day, hot sun, blue sky, with a freshness in the 
 air that makes walking delightful. In front of the 
 town the bluest Mediterranean stretches ; behind 
 rise in immediate vicinity the mountains, in which 
 the most charming walks abound in all directions. 
 One wanders through olives, citron and orange 
 trees laden with yellow and gold fruit, with a 
 carpet of flowers, violets, primroses, red anemones, 
 &c, under foot. Isn't that a " schwarmerisch " 
 description? But this place is really one of the 
 most lovely I have ever seen. It is almost worth 
 having bad eyes to have an excuse to come to it. 
 
 'Talking about religion (vide your letter), if you 
 
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 i8 HUBEET HEEVEY 
 
 were to come here, you would at once turn into 
 a Transcendentalist of the deepest dye. Material- 
 ism, London fog, indigestion, damp weather, and 
 weakness of the mucous membrane are all closely 
 connected. But when the moon rises over the 
 blue sea, casting a bright streak of light across it, 
 when the stars shine bright, and mountains catch 
 the moonbeams in the distance — then materialism 
 seems too cold and wretched. Everything here 
 is fragrant (even the streets, but these owing to 
 imperfect sewage). It is a very garden for aromatic 
 plants of all descriptions. . . . 
 
 ' I have read nothing lately, and seen very little 
 of the papers, except some of the French ones. . . . 
 If the Extreme Left get the upper hand, then 
 good-bye to the Eepublic. I was talking about 
 this to a " commercant " the other day in the 
 train, and he said, " Les Eadicaux vont fake de 
 telles betises qu'ils nous jetteront dans les bras 
 de l'Empire." He quite ridiculed the idea of the 
 Eepublic lasting. I am not so pessimistic, if only 
 the Moderates hold their own. . . . But they are 
 too undecided.'
 
 CHAPTEK II 
 
 DREAMS IN LONDON 
 (1882— 1892) 
 
 When his eyes had recovered sufficiently to 
 enable him to undertake consecutive work, his 
 age excluded him from an entrance to most pro- 
 fessions. He endeavoured to find some employment 
 which would enable him, if possible, to live with 
 his mother in London. 
 
 Accordingly, in 1884, he acted as Assistant 
 Secretary to the Jury Commission for the Inter- 
 national Health Exhibition at South Kensington. 
 He filled the same post for the Inventions Exhibi- 
 tion of 1885, and for the Keception Committee 
 of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886. 
 
 The Colonial Exhibition particularly attracted 
 him, for the bias of his mind, while embracing 
 a wide range of interests, inclined specially towards 
 political and Imperial subjects. As years went 
 
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 20 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 on, these assumed a more and more dominant 
 position in his thoughts and aspirations. From 
 his boyhood they had elicited his deepest enthu- 
 siasm. To live for the service of his country, he 
 regarded as the noblest aim for a citizen of a great 
 State ; he placed it far above any other calling 
 a man can have. 
 
 Although, during the period of eye trouble, he 
 was unequal to the long hours of application neces- 
 sitated by regular employment, he never gave up 
 reading in short stretches, and managed to acquire 
 an amount of information surprising to those who 
 were acquainted with his difficulties. 
 
 His taste in literature might be called severe 
 and classical. Rhetorical fireworks and poetry, 
 in which the musical element predominated over 
 the sense, bored and somewhat offended him. But 
 he did not, of course, take his own opinions on 
 such matters too seriously. Nothing certainly 
 would have surprised him more than the idea 
 of their being solemnly recorded. 
 
 Besides keeping abreast of the best general 
 literature of the day, he paid special attention to 
 political economy and everything connected with 
 statecraft and national history. During his life 
 in London, he thought much over social problems,
 
 DREAMS IN LONDON 21 
 
 taking a warm interest in all philanthropic efforts 
 to ameliorate the condition of the poor, in the 
 varying phases of the struggle between capital 
 and labour, in the action of Trades Unions, in 
 the growth of Co-operation, in State Socialism 
 and kindred topics. 
 
 One who knew him well, and had exceptional 
 means of acquiring a true insight into his real 
 character, writes as follows : — 
 
 'He had the knack of quickly taking the pith 
 out of a book, of at once grasping the funda- 
 mental aspect of a problem, of seeing things in 
 deep and true relations. His memory was reten- 
 tive and very accurate. Whatever he said could 
 be relied upon to exactly represent the fact ; all 
 loose statement he utterly abhorred. 
 
 1 He had a strong sense of humour, and a witty 
 and caustic way of saying things ; but his quiet 
 satirical vein was never of a sort that could give 
 pain to anybody. It was the gentlest and tenderest 
 nature, reserved and of few words, unresting 
 and totally selfless in its thought for others ; 
 loved by all, but best loved where it was best 
 known. 
 
 ' He could be stern, however, when it became 
 necessary to condemn any form of wrong-doing, or,
 
 22 HUBEKT HEEVEY 
 
 above all, any departure from the whitest code of 
 honour. When he then deemed it his duty to 
 speak, it was done with unflinching moral courage. 
 But where he felt himself not called upon to 
 intervene, he guarded most sensitively against 
 any shade of interference with another person's 
 liberty of opinion or of action. 
 
 1 There was a deep fire in him, but it took a 
 great cause or a great subject to draw it out. 
 Trivialities and side-issues left him indifferent ; 
 nor did he ever mistake the unworthy for the 
 worthy. 
 
 'His whole soul moved in what was great and 
 pure, and worthy of man's highest effort ; and 
 required a wide basis to show its real scope and 
 to make his full power apparent.' 
 
 During the time which intervened between 
 taking his degree in 1881, and entering the 
 service of the British South Africa Company in 
 January, 1 891, his life was uneventful. He 
 devoted some portion of his leisure to society. 
 He used to say that the necessity of making 
 conversation to people who did not interest 
 him was 'like working on an empty stomach/ 
 But to a large circle of relations and intimate 
 friends he was warmly attached. Quick in
 
 DEEAMS IN LONDON 23 
 
 repartee, he was eager for conflict with kindred 
 spirits, excelling in persiflage, yet most careful 
 never to wound the feelings of any one by an 
 unkind word. 
 
 Amongst the many friends whose hospitality 
 he enjoyed in the course of these years, were Mr. 
 and Mrs. Lecky, at whose house he passed many 
 pleasant evenings. 
 
 ' He was, as you well know,' writes Mr. Lecky 
 to Hervey's sister, ' the most modest, unostenta- 
 tious, unobtrusive of men, with no tinge of egotism 
 in his nature ; and all who knew him, as my wife 
 and I did, appreciated the charm — as much moral 
 as intellectual — of his pure and industrious life. 
 The sense of duty always seemed to me Ins guiding 
 motive, and it was no doubt this feeling that 
 chiefly led him to his early death.' 
 
 Many pleasant visits to his cousins at Ickworth, 
 to his eldest brother at Sandringham Rectory, and 
 to his brother Algernon at Monasterevan in 
 Ireland, fall in these years. His favourite pastime 
 was fishing ; and the delight with which he spent 
 hour after hour on the banks of the river Barrow 
 was a very familiar feature of his sojourns in 
 Ireland. 
 
 The home life was varied by several excursions
 
 24 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 to the Riviera and other parts of the Continent ; 
 notably by a winter and spring (1884) passed with 
 his mother and sister in Italy, when Rome, Naples 
 and the country around it, Perugia and Florence, 
 were successively visited. Rome attracted his 
 warm interest. Although he would decry the 
 Romans of the Empire as compared with those 
 of the Republic, whose severe simplicity was in 
 greater harmony with his own feelings, Rome 
 in her nobler aspect, as a great civilizer in the 
 world's history, appealed to him irresistibly ; and 
 in that truly imperial mission he regarded Rome 
 as the prototype of England. In the expeditions 
 he made from Naples he took the keenest delight, 
 and never failed to return laden with the wild 
 flowers which, from his Pyrenean childhood to 
 the end of his life, he dearly loved. His im- 
 petuous rovings in the fierce Italian sun resulted 
 in an attack of fever which interrupted the journey, 
 and the end of May saw the family back in their 
 home in London. 
 
 During these years of partial inactivity, although 
 conscious of his ability to be of use, he never 
 allowed his disappointment to show itself in voice 
 or manner. 
 
 Some of his letters written during this time
 
 DREAMS IN LONDON 25 
 
 are admirable, and form delightful reading, closely 
 resembling his conversation as I knew it in later 
 years, playful, original, critical, suggestive, contain- 
 ing bold generalisations and always pitched in a 
 uniformly high key. 
 
 His friend, Major Mills *, from whom I have 
 received most of them, tells me Hervey was not 
 a good correspondent. At rare intervals he would 
 write a fairly long letter on abstract subjects, but 
 as a rule his letters dealt with the necessities of 
 the moment, a few stray reflections on current 
 politics and amusing comments being added as 
 a sort of appendix. 
 
 Probably the longer letters would not have 
 been written at all had they not been drawn 
 forth by the interest displayed by Major Mills 
 in metaphysical questions, and by the recollection 
 of the lively discussions which had taken place 
 between them from boyhood upwards. The 
 friendship with the family of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 
 Mills dated back to the days of childhood. Their 
 second son Dudley (now Major Mills, R.E.) was 
 at the same private school and at Eton with 
 Hubert ; and at the beautiful home on the Cornish 
 coast, Efford Down, Bude Haven, he spent many 
 
 1 Dudley, son of Mr. Arthur Mills, of Ett'ord Down, Bude Haven.
 
 26 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 happy days. He dearly loved the sea, and the roll 
 of the Atlantic at Bude never ceased to inspire him 
 with feelings of delight. 
 
 His letters were not intended for general perusal. 
 He had the strong objection felt by nearly all 
 sensitive and refined persons to his letters being 
 seen by other eyes than those for whom they 
 were intended. 
 
 Written on the impulse of the moment, and 
 intended only for the person to whom they were 
 addressed, they convey in so pleasing and truthful 
 a manner a picture of the man himself as he 
 appeared to his intimate friends, that I am tempted 
 to include some extracts in this memoir, with the 
 one regret that I have so few letters from which to 
 make quotations. 
 
 To Mr. Robert J. Parker. 
 
 Pusey House, Faringdon, 
 May 20, 1882. 
 
 '. . . The country is so beautiful just now. I 
 look out on green and hill, and hear birds singing ; 
 and the sun shines, and I read The Tempest and 
 philosophize. . . . The Tempest seems to me very 
 subjective, and to give a real reflex of Shake- 
 speare's thoughts. Again, in some ways it is not
 
 DREAMS IN LONDON 27 
 
 unlike Fatist, though that is far more precise and 
 conscious. But the main notion of The Tempest 
 seems to be a picture of a man in life, as in an 
 enchanted island, with strange sounds, noises, 
 voices, all around, which he for a time listens to 
 and uses . . . ; but at the end he breaks his staff 
 and drowns his magic book, and returns to practical 
 life — " das thatige, wohlthuende Menschenleben." 
 We must not dream, and dwell too much on 
 mystical, poetical ideas, but work. We can indeed 
 hold fast to the notion that " We are such stuff as 
 dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded 
 by a dream," which we shall wake from in death ; 
 but we must not talk of it, dwell on it too much — 
 but work. Was not Prospero "infirm," was not 
 "his old brain troubled" when he uttered these 
 words? The world is real enough for virtue and 
 practical action. . . .' 
 
 To Captain Dudley Mills, RE. 
 
 12 Lowndes Stkeet, 
 Sept. 25, 1884. 
 
 '. . . My work consists of copying, of writing 
 letters, of making lists of Exhibits for Juries, of 
 being polite to Jurors, evasive to Exhibitors ; in 
 fact, much like oil, smooth and pleasant when
 
 28 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 allowed to trickle over, i. e. as long as one remains 
 passive, but, should anybody try to grasp it, slippery 
 and difficult to catch. Anyhow, this work is very 
 good for me, and I am very glad to have it. . . . 
 I don't stand behind a counter, nor do I sell pills ; 
 a table covered with letters of remonstrances and 
 requests of various shades of urgency and polite- 
 ness (or the contrary) is more like it ; but, without 
 joking, things go on very smoothly on the whole. 
 The door is marked " private," but somehow seems 
 to act on the public as though " this way only " 
 were written up ; indeed, I sometimes think that 
 " this way only " would be the best means of 
 getting quiet and peace. Nor do I act as showman. 
 No ! Writing, general suavity, occasional dignity 
 accompanied by chilling politeness and frequent 
 deprecation and smoothing down . . .' 
 
 12 Lowndes Steeet, S.W., 
 May 31, 1885. 
 
 '. . . No doubt in time you will develope into 
 a full-blown, " By God, Sir ! " imperialist. Perfect 
 democracy and realized Christianity are no doubt 
 fundamentally antagonistic to the imperial spirit, 
 which has its root and very essence in a proud 
 consciousness of superiority over others. Conserva-
 
 DREAMS IN LONDON 29 
 
 tives (of the old school), being entirely free from 
 participation in democratic Christianity, can carry 
 out a consistent policy of temperate, honourable, 
 and gentlemanlike Jingoism, and have a great 
 advantage over their Liberal opponents. Radicals 
 of the peace-at-almost-any-price school have an 
 advantage likewise over the ordinary Liberal, as 
 their policy of never going to war, &c, is a con- 
 sistent one ; but their advantage is mainly theo- 
 retical, as their policy cannot be translated into 
 the region of facts and action. The Liberal or 
 Imperial Radical is torn asunder by two forces, 
 Universal Democracy and goodwill and peace, and 
 the conscious superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. 
 Now, though he thus appears to be, and to a 
 certain extent is, at a disadvantage compared with 
 the other two parties, yet he has this great pull 
 over them, that he grasps the whole of the facts, 
 whereas the others each have only half of them. 
 The practical outcome seems to be that, although 
 the Liberal is welcome to his theories, he must 
 be very careful how he applies them, or he will 
 do more harm than good ; and, though it may be 
 true that the Imperialist feeling may some day 
 die out, it has not yet fulfilled its mission and 
 done its work. In other words, the world is not
 
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 yet educated up to doing without it, and therefore 
 no sane man will talk of giving up our possessions, 
 or of ceasing to extend them. . . . 
 
 ' . . . I have now to smooth an irritated foreign 
 Commissioner, now to snub an irritating Exhibitor, 
 which is most easily done under the cover of 
 polite words, as they don't the least understand 
 the use of a polished weapon, and appear defence- 
 less against it.' 
 
 London, Feb. 8, 1885. 
 
 '. . . Here every one is miserable about poor 
 Gordon, whose fate is still uncertain, but one cannot 
 help fearing that he has been killed. The only 
 good that may perhaps spring from the affair is 
 that now possibly a more masculine and energetic 
 policy will be adopted as regards Egypt : the 
 Government have not the courage of their con- 
 victions, and have been trying all along to pursue 
 a double (not deceitful, but two-fold) course. The 
 world is not good enough for universal brotherhood, 
 and giving one's cloak to the thief of one's coat ; 
 and till morality is on a far higher footing than at 
 present we must be content to annex and be 
 Imperial still. ... I don't think you have any 
 of the " Civis Eomanus sum" feeling, though I 
 confess that it is a sentiment rather to feed on
 
 DKEAMS IN LONDON 31 
 
 and cherish in private, than to parade in public. It 
 is too precious a jewel to cast before swine. I don't 
 mean anything personal, of course ! But still, there 
 is something inspiriting in being one of a great 
 nation. . . . Do you ever feel a desire for 
 adventure? I feel a sort of attraction to an 
 adventurous career like Gordon's, and I should 
 delight in explorations like Livingstone's into Mid- 
 Africa. Instead of which I shall probably end 
 my days having never accomplished anything 
 greater than directing envelopes in a temporary 
 iron office built by Messrs. Humphreys and Co., 
 the great contractors of Albert Gate. ... I am 
 afraid I have remained "hiibsch objectiv," as 
 Heine says of Goethe. . . . 
 
 1 . . . I am still working at South Kensington, 
 at the Exhibition ; and this year's Exhibition work 
 will soon begin now. I hope all the musical 
 instruments won't play at once — (it is Inventions 
 and Music).' 
 
 12 Lowndes Steeet, 
 April 13, 1886. 
 
 1 ... I go periodically to look at the Hong-Kong 
 tent with its models of the island and the docks, 
 and begin (so near am I brought to you) to think, 
 with Kant, that space at least has no real existence,
 
 32 HUBEET HEKVEY 
 
 and is only a mode of inexact thought *. Time 
 appears to me to be more substantial, when there 
 are still two or three hours to wait till the daily 
 hour of departure from my office. . . . 
 
 ' ... Of course, politically, Gladstone's Irish 
 Bill is the one topic of conversation ; it is danger- 
 ous to hazard an opinion, as the telegraph makes 
 a letter that is five weeks on its way so very apt to 
 be foolish, after the event. At the same time, if we 
 are to preserve our present system of civilization, 
 if an Imperial policy (in the most sober sense of 
 the word) is to continue, then the Bill is bad. If, 
 on the other hand, anarchy in the best and most 
 radical sense, abolition of large armaments, collapse 
 of all Imperial systems, and a return or an advance 
 to a semi-communistic or socialistic village system, 
 is to be the system of government of the future, 
 then the first step may be made by the self- 
 government of Ireland. But I am not pre- 
 pared to give up our present system of Imperial 
 civilization for the visionary prospect of happy 
 village communities, all living at peace with each 
 other, where the stronger does not oppress the 
 weaker, nor the Eussian make war upon the 
 
 1 Captain Mills was in China when Hervey was working at the 
 Colonial and Indian Exhibition at South Kensington.
 
 DREAMS IN LONDON 33 
 
 Turk. And therefore I am much opposed to 
 Mr. Gladstone's plan.' 
 
 Although an advanced Liberal he was strongly- 
 opposed to Mr. Gladstone's Home Eule Bill. Of 
 Local Government, in the broadest sense, he was 
 a staunch advocate, as a matter of principle no less 
 than for the sake of enabling Parliament to con- 
 centrate all its energies on Imperial affairs. But 
 the moment he perceived in any measure what 
 seemed a threat to the unity of the Empire, he 
 drew back. The strong sense of proportion which 
 enabled him always to subordinate a lesser object 
 to a greater, and the power he possessed of driving 
 straight through all momentary obstacles and 
 agitations to the ultimate logical consequence, 
 warned him immediately of the dangerous nature 
 of Mr. Gladstone's proposals. 
 
 Many of the Colonial and Indian Commissioners 
 will recollect an interesting excursion to Bury 
 St. Edmunds and Ickworth, which he planned 
 for their entertainment on the invitation of his 
 cousin, Lord Bristol (July 24th, 1886) 1 . 
 
 1 The following is a list of the Colonial and Indian Commissioners 
 who had accepted the invitation : — Dr. C. F. Fisher, Mr. McMillan, 
 Mr. Pilcher, Sir Saul Samuel, Mr. M. C. Cowlisham, Mr. Burdett 
 
 D
 
 34 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 1 The present Exhibition,' Hervey wrote a few 
 months later to his Eton friend, Mr. F. P. Gervais *, 
 ' has, I think, been a great success, and has had 
 much influence in fostering the growing feelings 
 of sympathy between England and the Colonies, 
 and in crystallizing them. Whether any scheme 
 of Imperial Federation can be practically worked 
 (which I earnestly hope), still remains to be seen : 
 probably the best lines on which to work at present 
 are Joint Imperial Defence and Emigration. A 
 Federal Constitution should rather supply a 
 demand, than be an attempt at creating one. . . .' 
 
 Smith, Mr. C. Cape, Mr. Archibald Frazer, and Mr. L. G. Lamb, 
 New South Wales; General Nixon, Mr. A. Bissett, Mr. H. Graham 
 Clarke, Mr. Webb, and Mr. Fredk. Ash, Cape of Good Hope ; 
 Sir Graham Berry, Mr. J. S. Bear, Mr. Henry Burrows, Mr. Jaffray, 
 and Mr. William Jack, Victoria ; Mr. W. Desplessis, Mauritius ; 
 Mr. E. Wodehouse, Hong Kong ; Chief Justice Dobson and Mr. Adye 
 Douglas, Tasmania ; Mr. Hawtayne, British Guiana ; Mr. G. M. 
 Waterhouse, New Zealand ; Lieut.-Col. A. Feez and Mr. W. D. 
 Walsh, Queensland ; Mr. Meade, West Indies ; Mr. Hugh Suther- 
 land, Mr. Dore, and Col. Ross, Canada ; the Hon. Malcolm Frazer 
 and Mr. Frank Wittenoom, Western Australia ; Mr. Samuel Tomkin- 
 son, South Australia ; Mr. Jos. Bosisto and Mr. Abbott, Melbourne ; 
 Dr. Baldson and Dr. F. Furrell Easmond, West African Settlement ; 
 Mr. Williamson, British Honduras ; Mr. Charles Bethell, Fiji. The 
 Indian Commissioners who accepted the invitation were Nasrulla 
 Khan of Sachin, Rev. L. Borrison, Sirdar Jai, Sing Ras Angria ; 
 Mr. Banerji, Mr. Wadia, Mr. J. E. Hanghir, and Mr. K. B. Kama, 
 1 Mr. F. P. Gervais, of Cecil, Augher, co. Tyrone.
 
 DREAMS IN LONDON 35 
 
 To Capt. Mills, RE. 
 
 Torquay, Feb. n, 1888. 
 
 ' ... As regards Roman Catholicism, one at 
 any rate of the great attractions of that Church is 
 that it represents, however imperfectly, the idea 
 of unity and universality. To understand this 
 thoroughly, one must look at the case historically. 
 If you read the opening pages of Ranke's " History 
 of the Popes," you will see what I mean. The 
 Papacy is the living representative of the Roman 
 Empire, the spiritual fire — the idea having outlived 
 the temporal Empire (of which the last shadow 
 was destroyed when the Empire of Austria was 
 created in 1806). The nation, or rather state, is 
 individualistic and anti-universal in tendency, and 
 the history of Europe from a.d. 300 (say) onwards 
 has been the successful assertion of nation and 
 state against the Roman Empire, disintegrated by 
 the solvent of individualism. But, in itself, unity, 
 universalism, is quite as powerful a principle, and 
 as eternal a one, as individualism. Hence the 
 strong hold that the Papacy still has over millions 
 of men. One is tempted to speculate whether some 
 democratic-socialistic Pope will not arise who will 
 
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 36 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 again preach Christianity in its pristine purity, 
 hamper himself with as little dogma as may be, 
 declare all nations brothers, and thunder his 
 denunciations against standing armies, military 
 governments, &c. ; and enlist on his side many 
 of those forces which we at present designate as 
 " anti- Jingo," "revolutionary," "unpatriotic," &c, 
 &c. And then the individual principle may have to 
 fight for life against a re-action all the more power- 
 ful that it has been receding for fifteen hundred 
 years. ... Of course the perfect state of things is 
 an exact balance between the (apparently) con- 
 flicting claims of "universal" and "individual," 
 but each suffers by being either too much or too 
 little developed, and perfection is only attained by 
 a perfect balance of interests, which is also a perfect 
 harmony.' 
 
 12 Lowndes Street, S.W., 
 June 23, 1888. 
 
 '. . . It is impossible to fall into fallacy, if you 
 avoid definition. I have not defined "miracles," 
 hence it is impossible for my opponent to say 
 whether my conception of miracles is possible or 
 impossible. Leaving aside free-will and necessity 
 (to which in the end, or beginning, everything
 
 DREAMS IN LONDON 37 
 
 would seem to refer itself), we can say about 
 miracles that they are only the supersession of 
 a lower law by the action of a higher. But such 
 higher law may perhaps only operate under certain 
 conditions of time, place, or disposition. It is only 
 the youth of a nation that can produce a Shake- 
 speare. It may be only certain ages that can 
 produce "miracles," or rather only in certain ages 
 that the conditions are favourable for the inter- 
 vention of the higher, — or better, the stronger law. 
 In other ages, the lower or weaker law, being 
 re-enforced by its surroundings, keeps the higher 
 law in check, or rather, being now the stronger 
 of the two, of course prevails. The so-called 
 higher, however, stores energy, and waits for a 
 favourable opportunity, and bursts out " miracu- 
 lously," like a volcano. Of course a miracle without 
 cause is as meaningless as — what shall I say? 
 Well, as any effect without cause ; as unthinkable, 
 in fact, as free-will. Whether, therefore, real 
 miracles (i. e. effects totally without cause) can 
 really exist, is practically the same question as 
 whether free-will exists. For every effort of free- 
 will, creative, and without cause, is a real miracle. 
 But what is commonly called a miracle may merely 
 be a wonderful effect, of which the contemporary
 
 38 HUBERT HEEVEY 
 
 thinkers did not, — perhaps more, could not— find 
 the cause.' 
 
 A book which was published in 1 891, and much 
 delighted him, was Lord Rosebery's brilliant mono- 
 graph on Pitt. Apparently some discussion had 
 taken place between Hervey and his brother 
 Algernon, who, deeply impressed with the ' Little- 
 Englander' views of the Liberal party, was 
 sceptical as to the possibility of any Imperial 
 policy outside the ranks of the Conservatives. 
 Hubert Hervey thereupon wrote beneath his own 
 name, inscribed on the fly-leaf of Lord Rosebery's 
 Pitt : ' gives this book to Algernon Hervey, to 
 convince him that Liberal Policy is Imperial, and 
 that Imperial interests are safe in the hands of — 
 the Liberal leader.' 
 
 To Capt. Mills, R.E. 
 
 ♦ B.S.A. Co., St. Swithin's Lane, E.C., 
 Sept. 13, 1892. 
 
 '. . . There was rather an interesting man at 
 W . I sat up with him in the smoking- 
 room discussing metaphysics, and pointed out the 
 superiority of my system over Buddha's, my system 
 being that I, the centre of the universe, absorb all
 
 DKEAMS IN LONDON 36 
 
 the rest, instead of the universe absorbing me. 
 And as this process will be completed in each 
 individual, you have the beautiful and philosophi- 
 cally perfect spectacle of everything being itself 
 and all its contraries at the same time.' 
 
 1892. 
 '. . . As you say, enforced rest is always tedious. 
 ''WHY" is indeed written in letters gigantic and 
 adamantine, over the whole face of the world. 
 
 The above extracts may explain the secret of 
 Hervey's fascination for those whom he admitted 
 to his intimate friendship, and to whom he 
 confided without reserve the thoughts that came 
 uppermost in his mind. He was an enthusiast 
 with deep emotions, ardent sympathies, and Im- 
 perial aspirations ; but an enthusiast whose words 
 and acts were always controlled by a horror of 
 cant, by a fastidious dread of boring people, by 
 a keen sense of humour, and by an innate courtesy 
 of manner. 
 
 These letters will also enable the reader to 
 understand how great must have been the sacrifice, 
 how real the patriotism, when Hervey accepted at 
 thirty-one years of age a subordinate place in the
 
 4 o HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 Transfer Department of the British South Africa 
 Company, and devoted his daily energies for nearly 
 two years to the uncongenial work of checking 
 transfers of share certificates in a dark room on 
 the basement floor of an office in the City.
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 IN THE CHARTERED COMPANY'S OFFICES 
 
 (189I — 1892) 
 
 It was at this time that, as a Director of the 
 British South Africa Company, I first became 
 acquainted with Hervey. A common relation, 
 Mr. John Grey ! , Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, 
 near Durham, told me of his nephew's desire to 
 obtain employment in the service of the Chartered 
 Company. Hervey was attracted by the wide- 
 reaching and Imperial character of the work which 
 the Company had set itself to perform. He re- 
 cognized that it was work, in the highest sense 
 Imperial, which if successful could not fail to 
 promote the glory of England and the best 
 interests of humanity. 
 
 1 The Hon. and Rev. John Grey, Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, 
 and Honorary Canon of Durham, was a younger son of Charles, 
 second Earl Grey, the Prime Minister. Mr. Grey was twice married : 
 first to Lady Georgiana Hervey, secondly to Helen, daughter of 
 John Eden Spalding, Esq. The first was an aunt, the second a 
 cousin, of Hubert Hervey.
 
 42 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 Prevented through the accident of ill-health 
 from serving the Crown in one of the established 
 services, he was eager to be associated with this 
 great Corporation formed to bring under the rule 
 of justice, law, and civilization, a vast territory, 
 which in spite of the salubrity of its climate, and 
 the wealth of its resources, was submerged under 
 the black waters of a savage barbarism. 
 
 Although the character of his duties at the 
 London office must have been distasteful and 
 afforded no scope for the display of his abilities, 
 he was reconciled to them by his sympathy with 
 the Imperial aims of the Company. It was also 
 his hope that his position might give him a claim, 
 as soon as opportunity offered, to some administra- 
 tive post in Rhodesia, in which he could take a 
 real and substantial part in the work of establishing 
 a new British Empire in Africa. 
 
 The influence which Hervey exercised over those 
 officials of the Company who were admitted to his 
 friendship was of the highest and most valuable 
 character. The following testimony from Mr. E. 
 Maclaurin Euan-Smith, at that time a clerk in the 
 office, to Hervey's character and influence, will be 
 read with interest : — 
 
 * During the whole of tins period we were very
 
 IN THE COMPANY'S OFFICES 43 
 
 much thrown together, and I soon learnt to value 
 and admire his many great qualities. He was 
 a good classic and a good German and French 
 scholar, besides being widely read in at least three 
 literatures, English, French, and German. He 
 was thoroughly acquainted with modern history, 
 especially the political history of Europe during 
 the present century. I think Goethe was his 
 favourite poet, and he knew whole pages of his 
 masterpieces by heart. He was a most delightful 
 companion ; and it was impossible, so active and 
 stimulating was his mind, to feel dull when in 
 his society. His conversational powers were of 
 a high order. His mind was stored with an 
 inexhaustible fund of anecdote and illustration 
 derived from his wide reading, and it was diffi- 
 cult to start a subject about which he had not 
 some amusing story to tell or some valuable 
 information to impart. He was very fond of 
 pohtics, particularly foreign politics, as to which 
 he was remarkably well informed. He had a 
 thorough grasp of all the great questions of the 
 day, and seemed to have read and remembered 
 all that was worth knowing about them. He was 
 an ardent Imperialist, and was ready to do and 
 dare anything, as he afterwards proved, to help
 
 44 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 forward the Imperial idea. He was a great admirer 
 of Mr. Rhodes, and of the great work he had done 
 and was doing for the Empire in South Africa. 
 I think that was the secret of his desire to enter 
 the service of the British South Africa Company. 
 He felt that in that service he would have the best 
 opportunity of doing good work for his country. 
 
 'As to his character, perhaps the qualities in 
 him that were most striking were his physical and 
 moral fearlessness, his truthfulness, and his high 
 sense of honour. Even amongst honourable men 
 he must have stood out as an exceptionally 
 honourable man, and it was impossible to con- 
 ceive that he could ever do a mean or underhand 
 action, or be guilty of the shadow of a falsehood. 
 To such an extreme did he carry his ideas of 
 what it was or was not honourable to do, that 
 many people looked upon him as absurdly parti- 
 cular, as a kind of modern Don Quixote ; but 
 many of these, who sympathized the least with 
 his ideas, which they considered fantastic, never- 
 theless admired him the most for what they 
 affected to laugh at. I remember asking some one 
 who had returned from Mashonaland l if he knew 
 Hervey. " Oh yes," he said, " everybody knows 
 
 1 At a later period, when Hervey was in South Africa.
 
 IN THE COMPANY'S OFFICES 45 
 
 Hervey. He has the most ridiculous ideas that 
 it is wrong to do this or that in business, and 
 a good many people laugh at him for his pains, 
 but every one likes him, and you can't help 
 respecting him." 
 
 1 As for his courage, I don't think he knew the 
 meaning of the word fear. He had none even of 
 that dread of death which oppresses some men 
 who are otherwise brave. I remember his saying 
 to me once, "The only feeling I have about death 
 is an intense curiosity as to what lies beyond it. 
 I have that feeling so strongly that I shall be 
 quite ready to die when my time comes." 
 
 'He was very ambitious, but it was a noble 
 ambition ; an ambition to succeed, not for his 
 personal glory, but that he might have increased 
 opportunities of work for England, a wider sphere 
 of usefulness and activity. The expansion of the 
 Empire was the idea for winch he lived and for 
 which he gave his life. He was fond of saying 
 that the great thing for everybody to do was to 
 search diligently until they found their idea, the 
 idea for which they were prepared to live or die, 
 and, having found it, they had only to give them- 
 selves entirely up to it, and to shape their lives 
 in obedience to its commands. " Only believe in
 
 46 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 your idea and it will carry you through every 
 difficulty. If you live, you will do great things ; 
 if you die, well ! how can you die better ? and 
 your idea will not die." 
 
 1 The time he spent in the London office of the 
 Company must have been most irksome and trying 
 for him. His health suffered from the confinement 
 and the sedentary life, for fresh air and exercise 
 were as necessary to him as food and drink. 
 Besides, his work — he was in the Transfer Depart- 
 ment — though very important and responsible, was 
 in its nature mechanical and monotonous, and left 
 little scope for the exercise and display of his 
 abilities. He was always pining for the freer life 
 and greater opportunities of Mashonaland, but that 
 did not prevent his performing his uncongenial 
 duties with the greatest thoroughness, and he 
 contented himself in the meantime with learning 
 Dutch, and working at other subjects which he 
 thought might afterwards be of use to him. He 
 made no secret of his resolve not to leave England 
 while his mother was alive. When at last he was 
 free to go and had made all his arrangements, I 
 shall never forget his coming to me and telling 
 me his plans, and then urging me to adopt and 
 carry them out myself in his place, for, he said,
 
 IN THE COMPANY'S OFFICES 47 
 
 I had been longer in the London office than he 
 had, and he could not bear to think that he might 
 be standing in my way by going. I had great 
 difficulty in convincing him that he would not be 
 doing so, and that home ties made it impossible 
 for me to leave England. He was as disinterested 
 and chivalrous in friendship as in everything else.' 
 
 For many years before Hervey entered the 
 London office of the British South Africa Company, 
 he had given the closest attention to African 
 questions. He had bought every new map, and 
 had followed every new development with the 
 keenest interest and excitement. 
 
 He would probably have gone out to South 
 Africa long before he actually went, had not 
 his mother's failing health made him unwilling 
 to leave her side, and to give her the pang, which 
 would have been a sharp one, of parting with him. 
 He made the sacrifice, as was Ins way, without 
 referring to it. His mother, who was devoted to 
 him, as he to her, never knew of it ; and even 
 those nearest to him hardly realized till afterwards 
 what it had cost him to feel the most precious 
 years of his manhood slipping away one by one, 
 while he remained quietly at his post. 
 
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 48 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 After his mother's death, which took place in 
 September, 1892, barely two months after that 
 of his brother Cecil in New Zealand, Hubert at 
 once took steps to go out to South Africa. 
 
 But before following him to that country, where 
 the final scene in the drama of his life was to 
 be enacted, it will be interesting to take more 
 definite note of some of the thoughts and opinions 
 which had ripened in this period of outward 
 inactivity. They will show that the crowning 
 episode in Africa was but the logical outcome 
 of years of gradually matured reflection. 
 
 During the latter portion of his residence in 
 London, there was perhaps no friend with whom 
 Hervey conversed more freely on the political 
 topics dearest to him, than Mr. Eyre A. Crowe ] , 
 and it is to him that I am indebted for the 
 following most important and suggestive summary 
 of some of Hervey 's views on these subjects. 
 
 ' More than any other man I have known, 
 Hubert Hervey seemed to live in the thoughts 
 and ideas which we associate with the word 
 Imperialism. The British Empire was to him not 
 so much a territorial conception, a collection of 
 countries spread over the four quarters of the 
 
 1 Son of the late Sir Joseph Crowe, diplomatist and art-critic.
 
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 globe, and more or less loosely connected by 
 political institutions, but rather the community 
 of a people having common aims and ideals, 
 looking at the problems of the world through the 
 same eyes, and working — whether consciously or 
 unconsciously — for a common object. That object 
 he conceived to be the maintenance and develop- 
 ment both of the individual type of character 
 which stamps the English-speaking people, and 
 of the dominating influence in the world of the 
 State which these people compose. For the con- 
 ception of a British State, as developed in the 
 writings of Professor Seeley and Mr. Spenser 
 Wilkinson, Hervey felt all the admiration of an 
 enthusiastic disciple. 
 
 ' I do not know whether any particular scheme 
 of political federation had his definite support. 
 The final solution of this perplexing question 
 seemed far off. But it was essential in his 
 opinion that no steps should be taken which 
 would ultimately have to be retraced, nothing- 
 done that might some day block the way to a 
 definite realization of the idea. Averse to the 
 vaguer kind of political speculation, he was yet 
 fond of dwelling on the recognizable lines of 
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 if not necessary, and of picturing results which 
 might be expected to take shape as the logical 
 outcome of forces actually at work. The essence 
 of federation, apart from its outward form, was 
 to be looked for in a harmony of view as to the 
 object which the British State should set before 
 itself in the world. 
 
 ' It seemed manifest to him that the lead in the 
 process of shaping the history of the world belonged, 
 at present, to a small number of nations — English- 
 speaking, German, Russian, French. Of these 
 France, with a diminishing population, was tending 
 to fall back from the position of a leading Power. 
 Germany was not unlikely to maintain her place 
 as the chief intellectual workshop of the world. 
 But in the long run England and Russia would 
 face each other as the main representatives of 
 Western ideas. Of Russia it might be said, that 
 not only was she very backward in everything 
 that is implied in the word civilization, but that 
 the material composing the nation was inferior 
 to the English breed. With our long start in 
 historical life, we ought to be able to remain the 
 dominating factor, and impose our purposes and 
 our ideals on the world at large — not necessarily 
 by force. With fond pride Hervey would dwell
 
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 on the fact that we had been the pioneers of 
 modern political institutions for all countries ; that 
 our influence was widely spread by our literature 
 and the great names in science ; that, above all, 
 our people were distinguished for a practical talent 
 for government, and for the administration of 
 justice, and that in this we were the successors 
 of road-making and law-giving Eome, the greatest 
 people before us. 
 
 'The genius of old Greece appealed much less 
 strongly to Hervey than the character of the 
 Roman. To him the Greek appeared to have 
 been too much wrapped up in ideas of art — an 
 effeminate tendency. The comparative lack of the 
 sense of art among the English, as among the 
 earlier and best Eomans, he looked upon rather as 
 a redeeming point ; believing that art and political 
 strength, if not antagonistic to each other, did not, 
 in fact, generally go together — a curious idea. 
 
 ' The United States were always included in 
 Hervey's views of a dominant English-speaking 
 Power. No doubt there was the danger of a conflict 
 between the British and American elements, which 
 would amount pro tanto to a weakening of the 
 English " world-position," as Carlyle would say. 
 Hervey would compare the relative position of 
 
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 England and America to that of Prussia and 
 Austria before 1866. The real problem lay in the 
 question, " Shall the Anglo-Saxon nation ultimately 
 be led from London or from Washington ? " The 
 existing antagonism Hervey conceived to be prac- 
 tically one-sided only : a sentimental feeling of 
 dislike or distrust on the part of America, derived 
 and nourished not unnaturally from the memories 
 of her birth - struggle with England. But the 
 actual political differences arising between the two 
 countries he ascribed mainly to the lower standard 
 of political life in the younger State, and the 
 consequently somewhat crude methods of states- 
 manship which found favour there. And it seemed 
 to him curious that, while these defects were 
 readily admitted in an academical way by the best 
 Americans themselves, the often needlessly aggressive 
 manner and tone adopted by their public men in 
 dealing with Great Britain was at bottom hardly 
 resented, rather approved in the States. If English- 
 men could recognize in the conduct of national 
 affairs in America the same spirit that they see 
 written on the most honourable pages of their own 
 history, Hervey thought it would be held to matter 
 little whether the centre of inspiration for English 
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 of the Atlantic. But so long as Great Britain had 
 reason to believe that she and not America was 
 the true representative and exponent of the great 
 national ideals of the race, she could not recognize 
 a Transatlantic leadership, even at the risk of 
 a Sadowa. In any case, whether there should be 
 conflict or only peaceful rivalry, he earnestly hoped 
 that the final result would be harmony and con- 
 solidation. 
 
 ' These views on our relations with America 
 filled an important part of Hervey's general survey 
 of English affairs. To make Great Britain the leader 
 of the world, morally, intellectually, and politically 
 — that was in his eyes the true purpose of any 
 English policy, as its accomplishment would be 
 the fulfilment of England's political destiny. To 
 rise to such a position of leadership, a State must 
 be regarded with a feeling of trust by the world at 
 large, and command its respect. Whilst respect 
 would be earned by a firm attitude in ever pro- 
 tecting national interests, general confidence could 
 only be won as the result of the conviction that 
 English aims and ideals can and may be identified 
 with the highest common interests of all peoples. 
 The growth of that conviction must be a matter 
 of time. Yet even now, when this country is
 
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 certainly much disliked by other nations, it seemed 
 very doubtful whether they would not rather have 
 Great Britain occupy the commanding position she 
 holds than that any other State should occupy it. 
 The tremendous power of the command of the sea 
 had never been used by England, in opposition to 
 the interests of the community of States in general. 
 If any other nation wielded such a weapon, would 
 not every one fear its employment as an instrument 
 of mere national aggrandisement and desire for 
 domineering over others ? Recognizing that any 
 attempt to acquire such a domineering position 
 had always in the past encountered the united 
 hostility of the European Powers— Spain, Austria, 
 France, having in turn had to give way before the 
 general combination — Hervey, like all men with 
 a good eye for politics, thought it should be a 
 cardinal feature in England's policy so to shape 
 her course as never to place herself in opposition 
 to the united hostility of Europe. It might even 
 be said that any policy which provoked such united 
 hostility could not represent the true interests of 
 mankind in general, and ought therefore not to 
 be followed by the nation that wants to lead the 
 world. 
 
 1 1 doubt whether Hervey had ever studied the
 
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 works of Treitschke. But he shared in a remark- 
 able degree that great political preacher's theory 
 that the soul and essence of a living State is might 
 or power. The most potent factor in shaping 
 national character and destinies appeared to him 
 to be the strife with other countries. From this 
 view there sprang a whole train of thought which 
 had a strong hold on Hervey's mind, and I will 
 attempt to draw a brief outline of it in the fol- 
 lowing paragraphs : — 
 
 ' Like all living organisms, States are ever strug- 
 gling against strong outer forces, whether in the 
 way of commercial, colonial, or territorial rivalry, 
 or in actual war. In this struggle weakness means 
 defeat. Now the essential element of all healthy 
 life, power, or influence, is force or strength ; either 
 material brute force that crushes resistance, or force 
 of will, character, and intelligence, that creates the 
 impression of definite superiority and asserts itself. 
 History has never revealed a State that was great 
 without at some time showing both these elements 
 of strength. Powerful armed forces and high-souled 
 leadership are indispensable for any State aspiring 
 to a commanding position. Even mere strong 
 national instincts and energy, without conscious 
 direction, may do a great deal. Great Britain herself
 
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 perhaps owes more than any other State to such 
 spontaneous forces, because in the security of her 
 islands it has not been necessary for her at all 
 times to put forward the best efforts. How much 
 greater her position is when her steps are guided 
 by a master-mind is seen from the history of 
 the periods when her policy was directed by her 
 greatest representative leaders, such as Elizabeth, 
 Cromwell, William III, Chatham. What they 
 were able to add to the driving forces of a 
 healthy community was clearness of view, thorough 
 grasp of the national aims, and the force of char- 
 acter to lead a not merely willing but enthusiastic 
 country in the natural way of development. 
 
 ' The strong and healthy sentiment of national 
 ambition cannot perhaps be justified by logic except 
 to your own sympathizers, present or future. 
 Probably every one would agree that an Englishman 
 would be right in considering his way of looking 
 at the world and at life better than that of the 
 Maori or Hottentot, and no one will object in 
 the abstract to England doing her best to impose 
 her better and higher view on those savages. But 
 the same idea will carry you much further. In 
 so far as an Englishman differs in essentials from 
 a Swede or Belgian, he believes that he represents
 
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 a more perfectly developed standard of general 
 excellence. Yes, and even those nations nearest 
 to us in mind and sentiment — German and 
 Scandinavian — we regard on the whole as not so 
 excellent as ourselves, comparing their typical 
 characteristics with ours. Were this not so, our 
 energies would be directed to becoming what they 
 are. Without doing this, however, we may well 
 endeavour to pick out their best qualities and add 
 them to ours, believing that our compound will 
 be superior to the foreign stock. 
 
 ' It is the mark of an independent nation that 
 it should feel thus. How far such a feeling is, in 
 any particular case, justified, history alone decides. 
 But it is essential that each claimant for the first 
 place should put forward his whole energy to prove 
 his right. This is the moral justification for inter- 
 national strife and even of war, and a great change 
 must come over the world and over men's minds 
 before there can be any question of everlasting 
 universal peace or the settlement of all international 
 differences by arbitration. More especially must 
 the difficulty caused by the absence of a generally 
 recognized standard of justice be felt in the case 
 of contact between civilized and uncivilized races. 
 Is there any likelihood of the gulf between the
 
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 white and the black man being bridged within 
 any period of time that we can foresee ? Can 
 there be any doubt that the white man must and 
 will impose his superior civilization on the coloured 
 races ? The rivalry of the principal European 
 countries in extending their influence over other 
 continents should lead naturally to the evolution 
 of the highest attainable type of government of 
 subject races by the superior qualities of their 
 rulers. 
 
 ' Such, so far as I am able to state them con- 
 cisely in a connected form, were Hervey's views 
 regarding these problems of higher political ethics. 
 He was clear in his mind that in these matters 
 Great Britain was leading, owing to the peculiar 
 genius of her people and the strength of her 
 historical traditions, as exemplified in her work in 
 India, in Egypt, in East, West, and South Africa. 
 
 ' Whilst Hervey's way of looking at our national 
 life generally was bravely optimistic, there were 
 parts of our political and constitutional rnachinery 
 which he regarded with a critical eye. He would 
 quote, as an instance, the want of suitable training 
 for our politicians for the higher duties of officers 
 of State. They grew up in an atmosphere of 
 Parliamentary debating, where party warfare had
 
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 established the rules of the game, and compromise 
 was considered the ideal virtue. Debates might 
 afford excellent intellectual schooling, but much 
 debating, especially with necessarily deficient know- 
 ledge of the subject, seemed of very doubtful value 
 in developing the power of decision. In order to 
 decide well and rapidly, a definite standpoint com- 
 bined with comprehensiveness of view is essential. 
 But Parliamentary discussions would naturally tend 
 rather to show every matter under two opposite 
 lights, between which a middle course must be 
 steered. 
 
 'The consequent want of the habit of decision 
 was aggravated by a lack of definiteness, and great 
 resulting diversity of view, as to the nature and 
 scope of our national aims. No properly recog- 
 nized school of thought existed, chiefly, he imagined, 
 because it was nobody's business to think out 
 methodically the problems of a sound national 
 policy, apart from their bearing on the position 
 of the two conflicting parties. 
 
 ' There was a sad want of historical training, for 
 which Hervey blamed the inefficiency of our higher 
 educational system. Modern scientific methods 
 had not yet been properly applied in dealing 
 with educational problems, and party interests or
 
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 ecclesiastical considerations seemed to govern the 
 discussion. Then there remained the extraordinary 
 reluctance to entrust real authority in political 
 matters to men of knowledge. Such men were 
 always suspected of having "fads" or "theories," 
 whilst men called "practical," and said to have 
 "broad common sense," were considered good 
 enough, or rather considered the very best, for 
 dealing with the greatest national affairs. Ignor- 
 ance was at a premium. Surely knowledge and 
 responsibility ought always to go together. Who 
 would entrust his money to a bank that was 
 managed by a man ignorant of banking, but en- 
 joying "broad common sense," or consult a doctor 
 who was a man of the world, but knew nothing of 
 medicine ? Yet all the great departments of State 
 in this country were in fact managed by men 
 generally and professedly untrained in the business. 
 ' But whatever flaws Hervey thought he detected 
 in the fabric of government, he believed in the 
 boundless capacities of the English race. With 
 her ever-growing healthy population, her super- 
 fluity of energetic young men, full of resource 
 and of the spirit of enterprise, gifted with the 
 power to rule honestly and justly, ready to go 
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 ideas, he could see no reason why England should 
 not provide governors and administrators for the 
 whole as yet uncivilized world, just as she was 
 doing for India, Egypt, and the various African 
 territories. A large field stood open hi China. 
 Always and everywhere the best energies of 
 Englishmen should be given to the service of the 
 State, in its wider sense, as the world-embracing 
 Power.' 
 
 Hervey had as keen an eye as any one for the 
 absurdities of Jingoism, but he believed firmly 
 that it was a privilege to belong to a great nation, 
 and a duty to maintain her prestige. 
 
 It was no narrow national egotism which made 
 him glad to be an Englishman, but the conviction 
 that the English race set a finer example, and 
 upheld a higher standard of truth and equity, in 
 the countries it was called upon to govern, than 
 any other nation. On ethical grounds such as these, 
 he based his opinion of the right of Great Britain 
 to be the dominant power of the world. He had 
 a strong feeling of ' noblesse oblige ' with regard 
 to being the citizen of a great State ; and con- 
 sidered no sacrifice too great to preserve the purity 
 of the ideals essential to the maintenance of its 
 greatness.
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 'EN ROUTE FOR THE FRONTIER' 
 (December, 1892 — 1893) 
 
 With his mind filled with the thoughts and 
 aspirations sketched in the previous chapter, Hervey 
 applied for a year's leave from the Chartered 
 Company, offering to work unpaid for a time if 
 a post could be found for him in Mashonaland ; 
 and in December, 1892, he sailed for the Cape. 
 
 ' There was something peculiarly noble and 
 high-minded about him,' writes Lord Montagu of 
 Beaulieu, a fellow passenger on board the Union 
 Line s.s. Scot, on the voyage out to the Cape, 
 'besides his great gentleness and sympathy. . . . 
 He was the most dehghtful companion and the 
 truest of friends. . . .' 
 
 On his arrival at Cape Town, Hervey was forced 
 to spend some weeks in comparative inactivity 
 while waiting to consult Mr. Rhodes as to his 
 future movements. He employed himself in
 
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 improving his Dutch, and made good use of his 
 letters of introduction to many of the leading 
 politicians and Government officials, thus gaining 
 further acquaintance with South African polities 
 and with the racial and other burning questions 
 arising out of England's advance into the interior. 
 
 During this and subsequent visits to Cape Town 
 he was frequently at Government House. The 
 High Commissioner 1 was much impressed by his 
 capacity, and took a great interest in his career ; 
 and the acquaintance, renewed from time to time 
 when Hervey was at Cape Town, ripened into 
 friendship. 
 
 Some of his home letters, written at about this 
 time, give his first impressions of his new sur- 
 roundings. 
 
 To Captain Mills, R.E. 
 
 Civil Service Club, Cape Town, 
 March 5, 1893. 
 
 ' . . . We were unlucky on the way out in 
 reaching everything at night : Madeira (though 
 I did land, but of course one could see nothing], 
 Teneriffe, which we did not touch at, and finally 
 
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 Cape Town, the approach to which from the sea 
 I should much have liked to have seen. Table 
 Mountain is of course striking. But to my mind 
 far finer are the mountains opposite, behind Stellen- 
 bosch, near which place I now am, having come 
 out for three weeks or so to a Dutch farm to try 
 to learn some more of that language. The sunsets 
 which dye the mountains bright pink, and the 
 sky first orange and then pink, with the "after- 
 glow" colour, are really very fine indeed. The 
 fault of the country is the insufficiency of wood, 
 but that could easily be remedied by planting. . . . 
 Then here the country is comparatively thickly 
 populated. It is just vintage time, and I have 
 been watching the wine-treading — an unpleasant 
 operation. Cape Town is a rather sleepy and 
 unenterprising place, but the suburbs are pretty. 
 . . . There is some pleasant intellectual society, 
 owing to Cape Town being the capital, and the 
 seat of Government, military establishment, &c. 
 
 ' The naval establishment is at Simonstown, as 
 of course you know. I believe there are some 
 guns there, but whether the defences are "any 
 better than those at Portsmouth" I don't know. 
 Seriously, I believe that Cape Town and Simons- 
 town are both in a fairly efficient state of defence,
 
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 but I would rather like to know what permanent 
 stock of coal the Admiralty are in the habit of 
 keeping in their more important coaling stations. 
 Locally raised coal is of little use, as it is only 
 one-half, or one-third even, as powerful as steam 
 coal, i. e. the bulk which an ironclad must take 
 must be doubled or trebled. . . . 
 
 'I know you are not an Imperial Federationist : 
 no more am I in the more immediate sense. But 
 I am inclined to think that it is an ideal to hold for 
 the future, and I am sure that some joint system 
 of Imperial Defence, which is, after all, the germ of 
 Federation, is immediately desirable. The present 
 state of the relations between England and the 
 Colonies, however adapted to the moment, has no 
 element of permanence, and we must choose 
 between a break-up of the Empire — thereby resign- 
 ing the future to the United States and Russia, who 
 would in that case have ultimately to fight for the 
 supremacy of the world — and some form of rela- 
 tion, which, call it what you will, would be a nearer 
 approximation to Federation than what we have at 
 present.' 
 
 The ideas here roughly expressed were at the 
 root of Ins earnest belief in, and support of, Mr. 
 Rhodes. At a later period he enjoyed the hospitality
 
 66 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 of Grootschuur ', where the great admiration he 
 had always expressed for the Imperial aims of its 
 owner received the added seal of personal intimacy. 
 
 Writing from Cape Town on March 26, 1893, to 
 Mr. Arthur Mills, he says : — 
 
 ' . . . I am sure you will be glad to hear that 
 I have seen Mr. Rhodes, and have been successful 
 in getting (unpaid) work at the office of the British 
 South Africa Company at Fort Salisbury, Mashona- 
 land. . . .' 
 
 Matters being thus arranged, he started for 
 the north on April 1, 1893, by Durban and 
 Johannesburg. The Uitlander question in the 
 Transvaal, and its relations to the British Empire, 
 especially interested him. The following letters, 
 written with reference to this journey to Captain 
 Mills, show the accuracy of his observations, 
 whilst in some details they have a special interest 
 as records of conditions which are being rapidly 
 obliterated. 
 
 To Captain Mills, R.E. 
 
 Victoria Club, Maritzburg, 
 April 11, 1893. 
 
 ' I left Cape Town on April 1, via s. s. 
 Drummond Castle, for Durban, which, after a 
 
 1 Mr. Rhodes' country house.
 
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 prosperous but slow voyage, we reached on April 
 8. The first port we touched at was Port 
 Elizabeth, a far more English place than Cape 
 Town, though with a fairly large German colony. 
 It is clean, well-built, and has a fair harbour, but 
 one has to land in a tug. As we stopped there 
 two days, I went ashore. The first day I went for 
 a walk in the country behind the town ; barren, 
 dry, grassy country, in hilly ridges — or rather it is 
 flattish downs (if I may use the expression) at first, 
 rising into hills later. Here I saw the first "loca- 
 tion" I had come across, i.e. the native quarters, 
 a collection of huts apart from the town, in which 
 the natives are not allowed to live. The dress 
 consists in many cases only of a blanket, generally 
 of a yellowish ginger colour, but many wear a 
 more developed costume. The hut appears to be of 
 mud with a grass thatch. 
 
 ' The next day I took the train to Uitenhage, 
 about one hour away, a pretty well-watered town ; 
 neighbourhood devoted to stock and ostrich farm- 
 ing. The country round is bush veld, i.e. a low 
 scrub growing all over and covering the mountains, 
 so that for as far as you can see (I drove out to 
 a farm nine miles from Uitenhage) the country 
 appears desolate and barren ; but I am told that 
 
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 this is partly deceptive, that underneath the 
 "bush" a very nourishing grass grows on which 
 cattle thrive, and that there are farms : but owing 
 partly to the size of the properties, partly to the 
 fact that the situation is often concealed by 
 the ground, one does not readily see them. In the 
 immediate neighbourhood of Uitenhage they also 
 grow vines, but the real vine country is the south- 
 west portion of the colony, and especially the Paarl, 
 ►Stellenbosch, and Constantia. 
 
 ' The next port was East London ; here also 
 I landed for a few hours. It is a regular colonial 
 frontier town ; large squares and broad streets, but 
 few buildings, and those of the most unequal de- 
 scription. Wool is the great staple of trade here. 
 There is a good deal of rivalry between all the 
 ports, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, 
 Durban, and Delagoa Bay. My impression is that, 
 in the long run, the Transvaal trade will gravitate 
 to Delagoa Bay, part of that of the Orange Free 
 State to Durban, and that the Cape ports (except 
 Cape Town for passenger traffic) will be out of the 
 through-traffic, and will have to rely on local 
 development of resources in the Colony. At 
 present they are all competing for the Transvaal 
 trade. The Delagoa line, from Delagoa Bay to
 
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 Pretoria, is being built by the Netherlands Railway 
 Company, who have an agreement with the 
 Transvaal Government not to allow any other 
 Railway to cross the frontier till their line is 
 completed, anyhow up to a certain point. In 
 spite of this, however, the Cape Railway through 
 the Orange Free State to Pretoria was completed, 
 I believe, before the stipulated point in the 
 Netherlands Railway was reached. I understand 
 also that the Netherlands Railway Company have 
 a general concession for railways in the Transvaal, 
 which hampers railway building. In time, how- 
 ever, this might perhaps be modified, as the 
 Transvaalers are getting tired of these concessions, 
 and of the Hollanders (i. e. European Dutch) who 
 are said to profit by them, and agreements are 
 sometimes upset. Natal again is pressing to be 
 allowed to complete her line to join the main 
 trunk line somewhere south of Johannesburg 
 (from Charlestown), and the line has been surveyed, 
 but hitherto the above-mentioned Netherlands 
 agreement has stood in her way. She also nurses 
 a grievance — real or fancied — against the Cape 
 Colony for working against her. But I think she 
 is now within measurable distance of being allowed 
 to extend her railway. I believe the distance from
 
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 Durban to Johannesburg is rather further than 
 from Delagoa Bay. Besides Delagoa Bay is a far 
 finer harbour, and the Natal railway gradients are 
 so steep, and the curves so great (for instance it 
 takes five and a half hours to do the seventy 
 miles from Durban to Maritzburg, in which the 
 rise is, I think, something like 3,000 feet), that its 
 chance of successful competition will probably be 
 much hampered thereby. I believe there are 
 some difficult portions on the Delagoa Bay line, 
 but I know no details. 
 
 East London, like most South African harbours, 
 is cursed with a bar, and one lands here, too, 
 in a tug, being dropped on to the tug from the 
 steamer in a large basket cage ; unless — which 
 you would probably do — you like to risk your 
 life and limbs, and dirty your clothes, by 
 scrambling down the side of the steamer. The 
 coast, which we hug, gets prettier after East 
 London : I mean that, though perhaps the shapes 
 were finer between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, 
 the actual hills were grassier, greener, more 
 wooded, north of East London. The country 
 was, to use the common expression, "park-like"; 
 grass, with patches of bush, also woods or scrub, 
 I could hardly see which. . . . Moisture begins to
 
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 appear in the sky, the air is damper and more 
 oppressive, and on landing at Durban you feel 
 you are in the tropics, at least in the sub-tropics. 
 Bamboos, sugar-cane, pine-apples, bananas, &c, grow 
 in the open air, and the vegetation is luxuriant. 
 Durban is a large, wide-streeted, green, and on the 
 whole pleasant town, covering (with the residences 
 on the hill, called the Berea, behind) a very large 
 area ; but it is awfully hot and relaxing. The 
 harbour would be a good one but for the bar : 
 there is a good inner basin, but I think the water 
 on the bar varies from 13 to 19 feet according 
 to high or low water. However, they are con- 
 sidering how to get rid of the bar by new works, 
 only the experts don't entirely agree ; in fact one 
 set want to prolong the north breakwater, the 
 other the south breakwater. I am told the former 
 plan is the correct one. 
 
 ' Natal strikes me as pastorally and agriculturally 
 a much richer country than anything I have yet seen 
 in Cape Colony, but of course I have not seen the 
 north-eastern, eastern, and central districts of that 
 country, which I am told are the rich ones. But 
 the large numbers of natives here appear to be 
 a great difficulty, half a million to between 50,000 
 and 60,000 whites.
 
 72 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 ' I left Durban at ten yesterday morning for 
 this place. The railway I have already partly 
 described to you. At first, for a little bit, we go 
 through low rich vegetation, but, as we mount, 
 that gradually disappears, giving place to immense 
 stretches of really beautiful mountain country, with 
 broad grass slopes, on which there was a good 
 proportion of stock. The air seemed very light 
 and pleasant. . . . Here and there were native 
 kraals ; and there were also patches of mealies 
 (Indian corn). There are lots of coolies in Natal, 
 especially at Durban, and working on the railway ; 
 and the natives are a much finer race than those at 
 Cape Town, or indeed, from what I saw of them, 
 than those at Port Elizabeth and East London : 
 they are Zulus, wear picturesque dress, have frank 
 open countenances, and walk upright and erect. . . . 
 
 ' The questions of the day are Customs Union 
 and Swaziland. The High Commissioner is to 
 meet Krttger at Colesburg on April 18 to discuss 
 Swaziland. 
 
 'I leave here probably on Friday, April 14, for 
 Johannesburg. . . . Then about the beginning of 
 May to Mashonaland ; I shall probably reach 
 Salisbury about the end of that month.'
 
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 To Captain Mills. 
 
 Salisbury, June 25, 1893. 
 
 ' . . . I last wrote to you from Maritzburg. From 
 there I went by train, through very pretty hilly 
 country, to Ladysmith, where I slept one night ; 
 going on next day early by train to Charlestown, 
 past the hill of Majuba and Laing's Nek. Majuba 
 is a high hill just inside the Natal border. . . . 
 
 'We reached Charlestown at twelve (about), and 
 proceeded by coach to Johannesburg, 130 miles 
 distant. We crossed the Transvaal border almost 
 immediately. The prospect is very flat and dreary ; 
 a high treeless grass plateau, with here and there 
 an odd-shaped " Koppie " rising straight out of 
 the veld. . . . We reached Standeston at about 
 eight, and, sleeping there till two a.m., started 
 for Johannesburg via Heidelberg. We reached 
 Johannesburg at six o'clock, and there found a 
 bustling town, club, champagne, gas-lights, shops, 
 &c, &c. ... It is all very English, you hear 
 and see hardly any Dutch ; only the long ox-spans 
 and waggons remind you of them. I went down 
 two mines, the Robinson and Jubilee. . . . 
 
 'From there I went to Pretoria. . . . Pretoria, 
 though more Dutch than Johannesburg, is also
 
 74 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 very English, and is prettily situated and well 
 planted with trees. The country round is rather 
 uninteresting, being, like most of South Africa in 
 the dry season, very dry and arid in appearance. 
 I believe this dryness is to some extent deceptive, 
 as cattle and sheep do thrive in many parts of 
 South Africa where any one accustomed to the 
 green moisture of Europe would hardly expect it. 
 'Politically, the English-speaking people are 
 slowly but surely " eating up " the Transvaal. 
 A certain distinction must, however, be drawn be- 
 tween " English-speaking " and " British." English 
 is the lingua franca of commerce, used by Germans, 
 Dutch, and English ; but partly owing to a feeling 
 of disgust among the real English for having been 
 deserted by the Imperial Government after Majuba, 
 partly owing to German admixture, and partly 
 owing to the fact that many of the speculators 
 rather like an Alsatia, there is a feeling that, 
 while discontented with the slowness and corrup- 
 tion ... of the Dutch rule, they would prefer 
 an English-speaking republic to being part of the 
 Empire. There is, however, I believe, a strong 
 party friendly to England (as witness the way 
 "God save the Queen" is sung at Johannesburg 
 . . . ), and the centripetal tendency must, I think,
 
 'EN KOUTE FOR THE FRONTIER' 75 
 
 inevitably lead to a South African Federation, 
 though we may have to wait a little bit for it. 
 The Customs Union, Mint Union, and such things, 
 are already spoken of, and the through communica- 
 tion with railways will accelerate the velocity of 
 the centripetal force. There is no wish to come 
 under direct Imperial rule, i. e. Downing Street, 
 but with a federated South Africa, Australasia, 
 and Canada, the larger question of Imperial Federa- 
 tion will be more ready for discussion. . . .' 
 
 July 8. 
 
 ' From Pretoria I went to Pietersberg, and thence 
 with Cape cart and mule to Limpopo ; Pietersberg 
 is high and cold, but one gets into low feverish 
 country between there and the Limpopo. The 
 "fever tree," which grows on the bank of that 
 river, is a hideous-looking thing, with however 
 a certain beauty. Pale-green bark, and darkish, 
 bright-green leaves. The cart broke down at the 
 Limpopo, which meant a delay of two days, and 
 then we got to Tuli, in B. S. A. Co. territory, about 
 thirty miles from the Limpopo- I came on from 
 Tuli in a springless Scotch cart and oxen, with 
 a Dutch driver, and a " boy," i. e. a Kaffir or negro. 
 "Boy" or "Kaffir" means a black of more or
 
 76 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 less any race. As a matter of fact, the subject 
 races here are Makalakas and Mashonas. . . . The 
 ruling race here are the Matabili, of whom Loben- 
 gula is king ; they are Zulus, who emigrated here 
 in consequence of internal rows, under Moselikatze, 
 Lobengula's father. The Zulus are, I believe, akin 
 to the Kaffirs, but the Zulu is black, the Kaffir 
 copper-coloured or "red." 
 
 ' . . . From Tuli to Victoria by ox-cart ; country 
 " bushy," i. e. scrubby trees more or less thick, 
 undulations more or less marked ; and, here and 
 again, Koppies, i. e. granite bosses on the surface 
 of the earth, like an inverted cup. 
 
 ' There are some stores along the road, but 
 one generally sleeps on the veld, with a mackin- 
 tosh sheet underneath, and blankets a discretion. 
 There is a good deal of fever between Tuli and 
 Victoria in the wet season, as it lies low. But 
 little game is seen on the roads ; and the journey 
 is tedious and monotonous. There is now, however, 
 a quick service with mules just started, by which 
 the journey to Victoria from Tuli takes two days 
 instead of five or six. From Victoria to Salisbury 
 is still by ox-cart, but that will be altered in August, 
 when the mule service will come on here. Victoria 
 is a small township ; a few brick buildings, mud
 
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 huts, and some gold mines in the neighbourhood. 
 Thence on to Salisbury, in six days ; country not 
 very different, but higher than from Tuli to 
 Victoria, and in parts bare of trees. Salisbury 
 is about five thousand feet high. This is the 
 best and pleasantest place in Mashonaland to live 
 in ; we are highly civilized (for South Africa) ; 
 we have brick Government buildings ; a brick club ; 
 and altogether there are many brick buildings, 
 which are rapidly supplanting mud huts. There 
 are chapels and churches of various denominations ; 
 stores ; . . . golf ; a tennis court ; a hospital ; 
 &c, &c, and a very pleasant set of people, though 
 naturally a rowdy and disreputable element as well, 
 but this is the case in all new countries. The 
 town is practically divided into two geographical 
 sections : the " Koppi," where most of the business 
 buildings at present are, and the "Causeway" or 
 Government side, which is a much pleasanter and 
 quieter place to live in, and has the Government 
 buildings, club, post and telegraph office, bank 
 and hospital. As regards the future prospects 
 of the country, most people speak hopefully. . . . 
 The climate is good enough at this time of the 
 year. . . . Civilization, good houses, good and 
 moderate eating and drinking, are the best safe-
 
 7 8 HUBEET HERVEY 
 
 guards against illness, which will probably get 
 less and less as time goes on. 
 
 ' . . . Life in one place is on the whole very 
 like life in another; one rather misses new books 
 and magazines, but, with office hours from nine 
 to five, one has not much time for reading, and 
 the little one has is devoted to the newspapers. 
 Let me hear . . . about anything interesting going 
 on in England, political, scientific, military or other- 
 wise ; one is a little apt to lose touch with all this 
 as time goes on, as somehow a paper six weeks 
 old never seems quite to have the same interest.' 
 
 To the Hon. Mrs. William Howard (an aunt). 
 
 Salisbury, Mashonaland, 
 July 7, 1893. 
 
 ' . . . I got here safely on March 26. . . . 
 
 ' . . . The country is much like a rough English 
 park ; the timber, however, is insignificant, but 
 the prospect is usually pleasing, and the light is 
 wonderful. In the undulating parts, the hills are 
 of deep blue, and the boundless expanse and 
 solitude give grandeur to a landscape that other- 
 wise lacks it. . . .' 
 
 On his arrival at Salisbury, Hervey was ap-
 
 'EN ROUTE FOR THE FRONTIER' 79 
 
 pointed Secretary to the Law Department under 
 the Public Prosecutor. His work, in consultation 
 with his Chief, was that of enforcing rules of 
 British law with an equal hand upon whites and 
 blacks alike. It was a post for which the moral 
 fearlessness of his nature, the judicial character 
 of his mind, and his high sense of duty admirably 
 qualified him. The career of Public Service for 
 which he longed had at length opened to him, 
 and he threw himself heart and soul into the 
 responsibilities of 'the white man's burden.'
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 
 (1893— 1894) 
 
 Hervey, however, had scarcely held his position 
 for six months when the whole prospect was over- 
 clouded by the rising of the Matabele, their raids 
 across the border into Mashonaland, and their 
 capture of Mashona sheep and cattle. 
 
 Dr. Jameson found it necessary to drive the 
 Matabele Eaiders back across the border of Mashona- 
 land with mounted men. In the course of their 
 expulsion men were shot, and it became evident, and 
 was generally recognized by the settlers of Mashona- 
 land, that if the country was to become the home 
 of Englishmen, and be brought under the rule 
 of civilization, the Matabele must be subjugated. 
 
 Hervey was thoroughly convinced of the justice 
 and necessity of an expedition being sent from 
 Mashonaland to attack and conquer the Matabele. 
 He offered his services to Dr. Jameson and was
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 81 
 
 most anxious to take part in the expedition, but, re- 
 cognizing that his inexperience of veldt life rendered 
 him less fitted than many others for a trooper's 
 duties, he expected to be told off for duty in 
 Salisbury. 
 
 Receiving no intimation from Dr. Jameson that 
 his services would be required, he took no personal 
 part in the organization of the expedition. 
 
 The preparations were far advanced when sud- 
 denly two leading men, who had been chosen as 
 captains of troops, being dissatisfied with some of 
 the arrangements, resigned their commissions and 
 refused to join the expedition. 
 
 Tins action naturally had a bad effect on the 
 rank and file. Burning with indignation against 
 these men for withdrawing at the critical moment, 
 Hervey took the only step open to him to show 
 his displeasure, and as a protest, and for the sake 
 of example, again offered himself as a trooper in 
 Dr. Jameson's force. 
 
 To Captain Mills, RE. 
 
 Salisbury, Mashonaland, 
 Sept. 2, 1893. 
 
 * . . . You may have seen in the papers that 
 the Matabele are becoming troublesome, and will 
 
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 82 HUBEET HEKVEY 
 
 have to be kept in order. A mounted force is for 
 this purpose going into Matabeleland, part of which 
 will go from here. I have joined this force and 
 we start on September 5. ... I have requested my 
 brother (Algernon Hervey, Monasterevan, Ireland) 
 to communicate at once with you in the event of 
 my death, so as if possible to prevent your mother 
 seeing anything suddenly in the paper, and so 
 that you could take steps to break it to her. . . . 
 'You didn't think I was going to turn into a 
 soldier, did you ? ! ! . . .' 
 
 The way in which he acquitted himself as 
 a trooper, and the impression he left on those by 
 whose side he served, is made clear by the interest- 
 ing accounts contributed by two men unknown 
 to him at the time of his enlistment, but who 
 from the date of their first acquaintance with him 
 until his death were his loyal and devoted friends. 
 
 George Grey 1 , who rendered services of the 
 highest value to Rhodesia at the outbreak of the 
 second Matabele rebellion, and whose name is a 
 household word in Matabeleland for truthfulness, 
 courage, judgment and capacity, writes as follows : — 
 
 'I was a trooper in Hervey's troop and was 
 
 1 Brother of Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 83 
 
 one of a mess of four with Hervey, and so was 
 constantly in his company during the whole cam- 
 paign. 
 
 ' Physically he was not well fitted for the severe 
 " roughing it," and long monotonous duties which 
 he had to go through ; he was quite inexperienced 
 in the management of horses and arms, and had 
 practically never before camped out on the veldt. 
 
 'He set himself, however, to learn everything 
 that was required of hhn, and soon knew his 
 drill and was as well up in all the duties of a 
 trooper as any other of the recruits ; and such 
 was his spirit and determination that he never 
 allowed lack of strength and physical weariness 
 to hinder him from doing his full share of the 
 work of the troop. In fact, I always considered 
 that Hervey's example had a very great and good 
 moral effect on the rest, and that many men 
 were absolutely ashamed to shirk duty, when they 
 saw Hervey, much less fitted than they were, 
 cheerfully doing his share. 
 
 'With the troop he fought at the battles of 
 Shangani and Bembesi, and, though there was no 
 special opportunity for him to distinguish himself 
 by any act of personal bravery, many of us recog- 
 nized that Hervey was a man without fear, and 
 
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 84 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 always ready to undertake any duty, however 
 dangerous. 
 
 'I had many long talks with him, and learnt 
 that his ruling idea in life was Imperial exten- 
 sion, and that he was ready to devote his life to 
 helping in Rhodes' big scheme of extending the 
 British Empire in Africa. He was a firm believer 
 in Rhodes and Jameson, and in the uprightness and 
 disinterestedness of their aims, and was always 
 very angry with those who imputed bad motives 
 to these men, or who cast a slur on the work of 
 the Government of the Chartered Company. 
 
 ' The hardest times we had on this campaign 
 came after the occupation of Bulawayo. Food 
 ran short, and we had to live partly on what 
 could be obtained from the natives, such as Kaffir 
 corn and mealies ; there was never any lack of 
 quantity, but the quality was rough. 
 
 1 During the latter part of November and Decem- 
 ber we had to patrol in almost constant rain, and 
 endured no little hardship in consequence. Perhaps 
 the hardest physical test that Hervey went through 
 was on the relief expedition sent to bring in 
 Forbes' Shangani patrol. 
 
 ' With others he rode out some twenty-five miles 
 from Inyati to the relief of Forbes and his men,
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 85 
 
 and, giving up his horse to one of the patrol, him- 
 self walked back the twenty-five miles in the rain 
 and the mud. 
 
 'But throughout the whole war, whatever the 
 discomfort, whatever the hardship or physical 
 exertion to be undergone, Hervey's spirit brought 
 hirn through in a manner which surprised all who 
 knew him, and gained for him their universal 
 admiration and respect. 
 
 ' On the disbandment of the troops on Decem- 
 ber 23, 1893, Hervey and I, and four others, not 
 wishing to accompany the main body on their 
 slow return to Salisbury, struck out straight for 
 Victoria, which was then the nearest settlement 
 in Mashonaland. 
 
 'We had four horses only among six men, and 
 took a straight course across the veldt, the distance 
 being 170 miles. The trip was a rough one, 
 taking us eight and a half days ; it rained almost 
 continuously, and we found the rivers very difficult 
 to cross ; and to add to our difficulties two of our 
 number had fever and had horses given up to 
 them. We reached Victoria on December 31, and 
 shortly after that proceeded to Salisbury by coach.' 
 
 Major Coryndon, who now represents Her 
 Majesty's Government and the British South Africa
 
 86 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 Company in Barotseland as Deputy Administrator 
 (a post to which Hervey was himself appointed, 
 though he never lived to fill it), was a sergeant in 
 Captain Heany's troop. Hubert Hervey and George 
 Grey were troopers under him. He writes : — 
 
 ' This troop was made up, as in the case of the 
 ordinary police and volunteer forces in Rhodesia, 
 and I presume in other new countries, of all sorts 
 and conditions of men ; and of the forty-five men 
 I know no one who would strike an observer as 
 less qualified by nature and training to make a 
 success of the rough work, and of what must 
 have often been, to his exceedingly refined nature, 
 very uncongenial society. 
 
 1 Yet the very first man to offer for a " fatigue," 
 or to volunteer for a guard, the very last to come 
 with complaints to the non-coms., the nicest- 
 mannered, and the most pleasant to work with, 
 was the essentially gentlemanly Hubert Hervey. 
 Never a word of grumbling during the longest 
 and most exhausting night rides, never sulky or 
 bad-tempered, always willing to make some dry, 
 witty remark, and always ready to do another 
 man's turn, he got to be known before the troops 
 were disbanded as one of the best, as he was the 
 most conscientious, of the troop.
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 87 
 
 ' His absolute integrity was of course too well 
 known and valued to need any word from even an 
 old friend, as I was (later) privileged to call 
 myself. 
 
 ' He was such a genuine man that everybody 
 would see it at once. He was certainly one of 
 the best and most loyal servants the Company 
 ever had.' 
 
 While at Bulawayo, Mr. Rhodes, hearing that 
 Hervey was serving as a volunteer, and also of his 
 gallantry in action, sent for him and thanked him 
 personally for his services, and for the example 
 he had given others. 
 
 'I happened to be present at this interview,' 
 writes Capt. John Ponsonby *, ' and could see 
 what pleasure it afforded Hervey to think that in 
 any way his services should be recognized. We 
 met very often during this time, riding together 
 on patrols, and sleeping out on the veldt, often in 
 the worst of weather, but I never heard him utter 
 one word of complaint ; though, serving as an 
 ordinary trooper, he had a far harder time than 
 myself or his other friends, who were serving as 
 
 1 Captain Ponsonby, of the Coldstream Guards, son of the late 
 General Sir Henry Ponsonby ; now on special service under Colonel 
 Martyr in Uganda.
 
 88 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 officers. He suffered, I know, for several days 
 from high fever, but never went sick, and managed 
 in the end to overcome it, when others would 
 certainly have given way.' 
 
 His letters to England at this time give an 
 interesting account of his experiences, while well 
 illustrating his dislike of over-statement, and his 
 characteristic habit of making light of difficulties. 
 
 To his Sister, Miss Mary Hervey. 
 
 Victoria, Mashonaland, 
 Jan. 3, 1894. 
 
 ' I find I have somewhat more time at my dis- 
 posal than I thought, so perhaps you would like 
 a rather more detailed account of our doings than 
 in my previous letter, which you should get by the 
 same mail as this. We left Salisbury, as you know, 
 on September 5, and marched with the wagons 
 to Charter, a distance of about sixty miles, in five 
 days. We were delayed some little time at 
 Charter, and spent the time quietly enough there. 
 It was there that we met the horses, and from 
 that time we were mounted. We did a certain 
 amount of drilling there, and our arms were rifles 
 and revolvers ; some also had bayonets, but I did
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 89 
 
 not have that awkward weapon, as my rifle was 
 a carbine, on to which a bayonet will not fix. 
 We left Charter, as far as I can recollect, on 
 October 2, and trekked in the direction of 
 Bulawayo, doing from eight to twelve miles a day 
 in two treks. We had advance guard, rear guard, 
 and flanking parties, the wagons forming the 
 centre, and being of course always laagered up 
 whenever we stopped. We generally started about 
 5 a.m., after a cup of coffee ; breakfasted (a solid 
 meal) after the first trek, and moved again about 
 2 or 3 p.m., as it was important always to 
 laager up before nightfall. " Last post " (bugle- 
 call) went about 8.30, and "lights out" at 9, by 
 which time we were in bed, i. e. sleeping on our 
 waterproof sheets, with blankets, either on the 
 ground, or on a wagon. We were all told off 
 to our places in the Laager, or by a wagon, 
 about sunset, so as to be ready in case of an 
 alarm. We saw nothing of any enemy for some 
 time, the first shots being fired by the scouts 
 about half way to Bulawayo, just when we met 
 the Victoria contingent, with whom we advanced 
 from that point. What with seeing to our food, 
 looking after our horses, pickets, and grazing 
 guards, besides of course the actual marching, our
 
 90 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 time was pretty well occupied. A few shots were 
 exchanged by scouts after this, but we saw nothing 
 of any fighting to speak of till after we had 
 crossed the Shangani River, about fifty-five miles 
 from Bulawayo. Fortunately we crossed this river 
 unmolested, and laagered up a mile or two the 
 other side. 
 
 ' Early the next morning a shot was heard ; the 
 bugle sounded the alarm ; and in a minute we 
 were all in our places in the wagons. By this 
 time the bullets were beginning to whistle about, 
 but the Matabele firing was very inaccurate and 
 poor, and did hardly any damage. The attack 
 was very easily repulsed and the laager never for 
 a moment in danger. Then some of us were ordered 
 out on a skirmishing party, but the Matabele in 
 the bush were in too great force, and we retired 
 again, after some firing, to the laager. Other 
 skirmishing parties went out, and later we went 
 out again, but had no fighting, and in the after- 
 noon we were able to move on, the Matabele 
 having retired. There was nothing much after 
 this (though of course the scouts and sometimes 
 the flankers may have fired a shot or two) till we 
 got to the Bembesi River. They meant to have 
 attacked us in the bush, but we, being warned by
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 91 
 
 the scouts, turned off at right angles, and laagered 
 at mid-clay in the open country, with bush on 
 one side, about six hundred yards off. We had 
 just finished luncheon, when the alarm sounded, 
 and we saw niggers advancing out of the bush in 
 considerable numbers, in skirmishing order. This 
 attack included some of their best regiments, and 
 was a more determined one than at the Shangani ; 
 but they were utterly unable to withstand the fire 
 from the Maxims and Gardner guns, and from 
 the rifles, and only a few of them had the courage 
 to come anywhere near the laager, which again 
 was never for a moment in danger. They were 
 completely beaten off, and their best regiment 
 smashed. 
 
 1 Two days after this our advance-party entered 
 Bulawayo, and we followed the next day. We 
 found Bulawayo quite deserted, having been 
 previously set fire to by the Matabele themselves. 
 The sensational account in the papers of the 
 storming of Bulawayo is an absolute falsehood 
 and invention, as not a shot was fired. Shortly 
 afterwards, the British Bechuanaland Police and 
 Raaff's column from Tuli joined us at Bulawayo. 
 Then came a period of patrols going all about the 
 country, but there was very little fighting, except
 
 92 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 on one patrol to the North under Major Forbes 
 (I was not with this patrol), who had rather a tough 
 bit of work, as the rains also hampered them. 
 They had gone after the king, who, however, still 
 remains uncaptured. They got back all right, but 
 a small party of men got separated by crossing 
 a river, and about that small party there is con- 
 siderable anxiety *. 
 
 I The Matabele are completely crushed, dis- 
 organized, and defeated. They have no spirit or 
 resistance left in them, and though possibly the 
 garrison force (300 British-Bechuanaland Police and 
 150 British South Africa Company Police) may 
 have to fire a few shots on police work, especially 
 in the remoter northern districts, or if they get 
 the fugitive king at bay, yet the war is essentially 
 over and the work done. We, as you know, are 
 disbanded, and I am no longer a soldier.' 
 
 To Captain Mills, R.E. 
 
 Victoria, Mashonaland, 
 Jan. 3, 1894. 
 
 I I got here all safe from Bulawayo last Saturday. 
 We were disbanded about December 20, so that 
 
 1 Major Alan Wilson's party.
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 93 
 
 the military incident in my career is now closed, 
 and I am again a harmless middle-aged civilian. 
 
 ' I went, as you know, with the Salisbury column 
 in the capacity of a trooper, and certainly the 
 experience has been most interesting. . . . 
 
 1 1 think the whole affair is a good piece of 
 business ; it extends British territory over a fine 
 country, and will doubtless consolidate and strengthen 
 British influence throughout South Africa, and 
 lessen native " troubles " generally. (Much rot 
 talked in England about the "poor Matabele." 
 They were barbarous savages.) 
 
 ' I left Bulawayo, with five others, on December 22, 
 and we came through here almost in a direct line. 
 It was an interesting trip, being through compara- 
 tively little - known country, all perfectly safe. 
 I calculated it to be about 165 miles, though others 
 make it less, and we did it in eight and a half 
 days. It was rather a relief to arrive here, and 
 not to have to fetch wood and water, cook one's 
 food, clean up afterwards, &c. . . . 
 
 ' I was very fit and well the whole time, in 
 spite of often being wet, as the rainy season had 
 begun before the end of November. Before that, 
 of course, the weather was hot and dry. 
 
 ' . . . I had a very satisfactory interview with
 
 94 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 Rhodes at Bulawayo, and am from now to receive 
 pay in the Chartered Company's Civil Service. 
 
 1 1 shall always for every reason be glad that 
 I joined the expedition, and added so interesting 
 an experience to my life. Of course, also, one saw 
 a good deal of new country, and got a general 
 acquaintance with African ways and methods.' 
 
 To Mr. Arthur Mills, Bude. 
 
 Salisbury, Mashonaland, 
 Jan. 22, 1894. 
 
 ' Here I am safe back again. ... I have settled 
 to throw in my lot definitely with this country. 
 
 ' I am going soon (after the rainy season) to 
 rush into brick and mortar, and build a little 
 house. I am all the better in every way for the 
 campaign.' 
 
 To HIS BROTHER, THE REV. FREDERICK HERVEY. 
 
 Salisbury, Mashonaland, 
 March 8, 1894. 
 
 ' Just a line to say that I am all right. Every- 
 thing pretty quiet here, and Dr. Jameson still at 
 Bulawayo. Our latest news is that Lobengula has
 
 THE MATABELE WAR 95 
 
 died, by which the settlement of Matabeleland 
 will probably be much facilitated. 
 
 ' You will be glad to hear they have handed over 
 a new department to me — Records and Statistics. 
 . . . This is of course very satisfactory, and as 
 time goes on the Department is likely to be 
 a growing one.'
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 
 (1894— 1895) 
 
 Both Mr. Rhodes and Dr. Jameson were anxious 
 to give definite form to their appreciation of the 
 loyalty and energy displayed by Hervey during 
 the campaign. In recognition of his services, the 
 formation of the new Department at Salisbury 
 alluded to in the foregoing letter, that of Records 
 and Statistics, was entrusted to him : a task 
 for which his capacity for organization well fitted 
 him. He held this appointment from March, 1894, 
 till the outbreak of the second Matabele war, 
 in 1896. From time to time during this period 
 Dr. Jameson also made use of Hervey 's services 
 on special missions. The first of these took place 
 in the early part of 1894, when he was sent to 
 Gazaland, a country for the natural advantages 
 of which he expressed the greatest admiration.
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 97 
 
 To his Bkothek, Mr. Algernon Hervey. 
 
 Salisbury Club, Salisbury, 
 March 19, 1894. 
 
 1 1 am off to-morrow for a tour round the country, 
 to Umtali, then probably to Melsetter, and I may 
 be away about three weeks, so there will probably 
 be some little time before you hear from me. 
 I am going . . . with the Acting Chief Commis- 
 sioner of Police, and shall see a good deal of the 
 country. I may be able to write to you from 
 Umtali, but don't be alarmed if I don't, or if there 
 is some little time before you hear again. . . . ' 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Salisbury, May 13, 1894. 
 
 ' I had a very jolly expedition to Gazaland, which 
 is a beautiful mountain country, fresh and green. 
 We were absent in all about five weeks, sleeping 
 out on the veldt a great part of the time, riding 
 about six hours of the day, and seeing lots of 
 native " Kraals." ... I have been duly appointed 
 " Statist to the Company " ( ! ) and my Department 
 is called the " Record and Statistical Department," 
 
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 98 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 which all sounds very fine ! But I really think it 
 will give me the opportunity of learning lots about 
 the country, and doing some good work. . . . 
 
 ' The bricks, or some of them, are already on 
 my house plot. It is right on the edge of the 
 township, so I shall not have my view interfered 
 with for a long time. I am going to plant peach- 
 trees, figs, vines, apricots, &c. . . . ' 
 
 In June, 1894, Dr. Jameson sent him down to 
 Chimoio to superintend and hasten the transport of 
 goods, and of African Trans-Continental Telegraph 
 material, from the head of the railway which 
 was then in process of construction, in Portuguese 
 territory, through the fly country, to Chimoio. 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Salisbury, June 16, 1894. 
 
 'I am off to Beira, and all that country, for 
 about three months, on Tuesday next, 19th, on 
 Company's business, connected with the railway 
 matters. . . . 
 
 ' I travel as follows : — 
 
 1 Here to Umtali, post-cart, three days ; Umtali 
 to Chimoio, donkeys and "boys" (native carriers),
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 99 
 
 seventy-five miles ; Chimoio to seventy-five mile 
 peg (on railway), thirty-five mile walk (" fly " 
 country); seventy -five mile peg to Fontesvilla, 
 railway, seventy-five miles ; Fontesvilla to Beira, 
 forty miles, river steamer. I shall, however, very 
 probably not travel through direct, and do not 
 know how long I may be en route. . . . The 
 weather is lovely, but cold, especially morning 
 and evening, the sun being warm mid-day and 
 afternoon. But I have fires all the morning, and 
 often in the afternoon too.' 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Devil's Pass (about 40 miles NNW. from Umtali), 
 Saturday, June 23, 1894. 
 
 1 . . . I left Salisbury by post-cart on Tuesday 
 afternoon, and arrived here by Thursday afternoon, 
 where I am staying with Coope . . . who is in 
 charge of the road-making, and has been making 
 the road between the seventy-five mile peg on the 
 railway and Umtali. There are lots of Kaffirs 
 here, making the road, and others come in to 
 trade, so it is a very African scene. Of course 
 one travels far more comfortably than one could 
 
 h 2
 
 ioo HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 on the Matabele expedition. I am writing in 
 a tent, and sleep in a wagon ; lovely weather, 
 coldish at nights, a beautiful view of wooded hills 
 near, and blue mountains beyond. . . . 
 
 ' I shall go on to Umtali to-morrow, reaching 
 it the day after ; Coope very kindly lending me 
 donkeys and "boys," as all Kaffirs are called. 
 I am taking my own black servant with me to 
 Chimoio and Beira ; he talks English, and is 
 civilized. The Kaffirs here are at present rigging 
 up huts for Coope, and wonderfully they do it, 
 and sing during their work. ... I shall buy 
 a couple of donkeys at Umtali, and, as I know 
 a fellow who is going down with a wagon to 
 Chimoio, I shall probably go with him, as it is 
 far more comfortable, and time suits. . . . Down 
 below, I expect to get bananas, oranges, &c, which 
 will be a treat, as we rarely get fresh fruit, though 
 we have plenty of fresh vegetables. . . . My letter 
 from Soveral to Machado, the Portuguese Governor 
 at Beira, will now come in useful. The country 
 up to about here is not very interesting: "bush," 
 open " veldt," granite hill, &c. ; but there is very 
 little variety in the scenery till here, when it 
 begins to get pretty. Umtali itself is very pretty. 
 . . . The whole scene here is very characteristic :
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 101 
 
 wagons, oxen, Kaffirs, bush and mountains, donkeys, 
 and a tent. ... I have taken a few books with 
 me, three plays of Shakespeare, a Virgil, and some 
 selections from Burke. You see, all this will bear 
 reading and re-reading, and space is a consideration 
 in the veldt. Of course, if one always has a wagon, 
 one has more room, but it is difficult to take much 
 in the post-cart. I have my papers sent on weekly, 
 so I shall have the news (if they arrive safe). . . . 
 As I told you, I hope I may get a little shooting, 
 and have got two rifles with me, a Martini and 
 a Winchester repeater. I shall enjoy seeing the 
 sea again at Beira, I have not seen it for a year 
 and a half, and one does miss big sheets of water, 
 big rivers, and the sea, in this country. . . . 
 
 'The grass fires have begun now, and though 
 one does not see so much of them here, as the 
 hills shut out the view except in one direction, 
 and also there is more bush, yet near Salisbury 
 it is quite curious, clouds and clouds of smoke 
 in the day time, and at night the bright flames 
 from the dry grass ; the latter is a very pretty 
 sight. 
 
 'The finishing of my house is in the hands (as 
 far as looking after it is concerned) of one or two 
 friends, so that is all right. . . .'
 
 102 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 75-MILE Peg (Terminus of Beira Railway), 
 July 15, 1894. 
 
 '. . . I came down to Umtali by post-cart, at 
 least except the last 40 miles, as I wished to 
 stop at a road-making camp on the way, where 
 I stayed two days about. The camps are rather 
 picturesque : ox-wagons, camp-fires, tents, and an 
 al fresco gipsy sort of life. There is, however, a 
 something wanting in African scenery ; you have 
 blue hills in the distance, wooded hills near, and 
 at night (and that is the finest) a vast blue dome 
 of stars ; but whether it is water, or cultivation, 
 or towns, something is wanting. Perhaps it is 
 the English yearning for the sea. I am never 
 quite happy too far from the sea, and here there 
 are not even large lakes or mighty rivers, only 
 the inimitable veldt and bush, composed mostly of 
 rather scraggy trees. . . . 
 
 'Well, I stayed about five days at Umtali, and 
 then came on here on what by courtesy is called 
 a horse, which I left at Chimoio, 75 miles ESE. 
 of Umtali. We mostly stopped at "stores," little 
 wayside hotels, where one sleeps in bamboo or 
 " daga " (dry mud) huts. Besides my own servant 
 I had eight carriers with me ; these were Mashonas, 
 and they can carry up to about 50 lbs. each. I saw
 
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 no game, and we were gradually descending into the 
 lower country. Then after one night at Chimoio 
 I came on here in three days (42 miles), twenty- 
 two of which I did in an ox-wagon (a method of 
 travelling somewhat trying to any but the most 
 patient of temperaments), and from there walked 
 on here. I expected it would be hot, but it is not ; 
 the mornings are frequently very cold, and even 
 at mid-day the heat is not excessive or oppressive, 
 though of course the sun is powerful. But it is 
 much like what English fine weather might be in 
 August, and to-day it is cloudy and cool. Of course 
 it is mid-winter. This is a pretty little place, all 
 bamboo huts, situated amid wooded hills, quite 
 healthy this time of the year. I am staying at 
 a very fair store kept by two Germans ; I have 
 my own hut: bamboo, then a limbo "ceiling" 
 (limbo is calico) to prevent the bits of grass with 
 which it is thatched littering the hut, and blue 
 limbo all round the walls, and a blanket suspended 
 for a door. Sheets are of course unknown, but 
 I have my own blankets, and (Heaven be praised) 
 my indiarubber bath. 
 
 * The place is busier now than ever before, or 
 than it will ever be again, being for the moment 
 the railway terminus ; but the railway will be
 
 io4 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 opened another 43 miles (to Chimoio or there- 
 abouts) next October, and then "Tchabod" will 
 be written here. A traction-engine has just arrived 
 (in fact that is in part why I was sent down here), 
 and, though of course an experiment, I hope and 
 think it will succeed. I went down for one night 
 to Fontesvilla the other day, the eastern terminus 
 of the railway (this is the western terminus). Then 
 from Fontesvilla to Beira one goes by river-steamer; 
 I mean to go to Beira to see it, but have not time at 
 present. . . .' 
 
 ' One is rather out of the world here as regards 
 news, and posts are slow and uncertain. When 
 I want to communicate quickly with Salisbury, 
 I send a special runner (like the Middle Ages in 
 England) ; and, even if I catch the Umtali-Salisbury 
 mail, it takes about nine days. However, on 
 August 8 an accelerated post service will be on 
 from Salisbury to Chimoio.' 
 
 To Captain Mills, R.E. 
 
 75-MILE Peg (Beira Railway Terminus), 
 August 28, 1894. 
 
 '. . . If you are still in Canada you must write 
 and tell me something about the Imperial confer-
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 105 
 
 ence. Are you as averse as ever to Imperial 
 Federation? I believe in it, not necessarily in a 
 cut-and-dried form at present, but I believe the 
 idea is the only thing that will save England from 
 sinking to a second- or third-rate Power, and, now 
 that the Colonies (not a mere band of enthusiasts 
 in London) have taken it up seriously, I do not 
 see why it should not become an accomplished 
 fact within a reasonable time. Imperial Defence 
 on equal terms is, I think, the key-note of what 
 should be attempted. 
 
 ' I have been reading a book (here of all places 
 in the world !) that has interested me, and which 
 I think would interest you, if you have not already 
 read it : namely, Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism. Of 
 course it is a mere outline, but it is very suggestive, 
 and the system seems to contain much that is or 
 at least might be true. I think one can hardly at 
 present estimate the enormous influence that the 
 meeting of Western and Eastern thought may 
 produce. Hitherto we have too much neglected 
 the latter, great as its influence seems to have 
 been on Plato and, I suppose, Pythagoras. One 
 criticism, however, one feels at once disposed to 
 make ; one wants some teleological end, or shortly 
 a reXos. It is not enough to hold out vistas of
 
 io6 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 unthinkable, but still limited, time ; no amount 
 of time, short of the infinite, constitutes eternity ; 
 and till some system can show us, or at least 
 hint to us, what will be our eternal position 
 (whether of perpetual progress, or merging into a 
 perfect condition of rest when time will cease, 
 — what one may call the Beatific Vision, to borrow 
 from Christian theology — ), so long will that system 
 fail to satisfy. The idea of many lives and many 
 re-incarnations seems reasonable, and one is inclined 
 to believe it. But the idea (so far as I can make 
 out) of an endless series of expansions and con- 
 tractions of the universe, of night and day, so to 
 speak, in the night of which all things will perish, 
 previous to similar re-expansion, is unsatisfying. 
 One craves for a continuity of consciousness, which 
 may indeed be interrupted by a sleep, but not 
 broken off. . . . 
 
 1 My train of thought has been seriously inter- 
 rupted by a heavy shower, resulting in one or two 
 rivers flowing through my hut ! Still, I should 
 like you to read the book, and let me know your 
 ideas on it. Of course the whole system is highly 
 mystical, but to a believer in Kant and the pure 
 reason and the transcendental, that will be all 
 right, though I daresay the scientific part of you
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 107 
 
 will object to the spiritualist part of it ! Not 
 that I have turned into a Spiritualist (yet ! !), but 
 I certainly think the book a suggestive one. 
 
 ' My visit down here will, I hope, soon draw to 
 a close. I am trying to get 500 tons of telegraph 
 material for the African Transcontinental Telegraph 
 transported through the "fly" (tsetse), and have 
 only very partially succeeded at present. I hope, 
 however, to be able to return to Salisbury before 
 long, having accomplished my task, or at least put 
 it in a fair way of accomplishment.' 
 
 He was back at Salisbury by the middle of 
 September. On October 1, 1894, the Civil Com- 
 missioner of Salisbury, Mr. H. Marshall Hole, one 
 of Hervey's most intimate and valued friends in 
 South Africa, went on leave ; and Hervey took 
 over his duties from that date until Mr. Marshall 
 Hole's return, in July, 1895. In addition to being 
 Statist, he now held the appointment of Acting 
 Civil Commissioner and Acting Registrar of Deeds ; 
 and in the following summer that of Acting 
 Magistrate of Salisbury. 
 
 In November, 1894, he was sent on a special 
 mission to Gazaland, his second visit to that 
 beautiful region, to report upon the country.
 
 108 HUBEKT HERVEY 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Melsetter, Gazaland, 
 Dec. 3, 1894. 
 
 '. . . I left Salisbury about twelve days ago, and 
 got to Umtali in five days. I remained one night 
 at Umtali, and then came on here myself, two 
 other white men, three horses, and fourteen blacks 
 carrying our food, blankets, &c. We took four 
 and a half days from Umtali here. Of course we 
 always camped out (till we got here, to Moodie's 
 farm), and we had lovely weather. We usually 
 started about half-past five, or a quarter to six, 
 after having had "early coffee" (a universal institu- 
 tion in this country, at any rate when travelling 
 in the veldt), and after the horses had had 
 "mealies," i.e. about four or five pounds of Indian 
 corn. Then we travelled for about two hours, or 
 two hours and a half, off-saddled and breakfasted ; 
 breakfast being bread, tea or coffee, tinned meats 
 and jam, and cigarettes. Then on again, with a 
 short halt and a cup of tea at mid-day, and then 
 on again till towards evening. Of course there 
 were frequent minor halts, to rest the carriers, &c. 
 Then in the evening we made a " scarum," i. e. a 
 small oblong enclosure of green boughs, where we 
 and the horses slept ; the " boys," i. e. Kaffirs,
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 109 
 
 sleeping in a scarum of their own, or as they 
 pleased. The evening is the pleasantest time 
 travelling ; it is cool, the fire is cheerful, and one 
 has not got to be thinking of going on again, so 
 one quietly eats one's supper (much the same as 
 breakfast), and smokes one's cigarette or cigar 
 afterwards, reclining on blankets (with a water- 
 proof sheet underneath one), and looking up at 
 the wonderful stars. Then to sleep about nine. 
 You will see it is a thoroughly healthy, frugal, and 
 altogether pastoral, or Arcadian, or whatever-the- 
 right- word-is life ! 
 
 ' We were travelling through hilly country, 
 mainly well-watered, with generally a rather 
 scrubby bush (" bush " means forest or wood 
 here, not undergrowth) ; but as we approached 
 Melsetter the bush ceased, we got higher up (top 
 of pass about 6,800 feet) and the views were 
 magnificent, blue mountains, sometimes extremely 
 distant, round us. Some of the flowers were 
 lovely, especially some great pinkish-white lilies, 
 that grew in profusion in places. . . . 
 
 ' I am beginning to talk a little rough Kaffir, 
 but my capacities in that direction are very limited. 
 My dress and equipment would amuse you : Bed- 
 ford cord breeches, flannel shirt, tweed coat, a
 
 no HUBEET HERVEY 
 
 slouch hat, a pair of field glasses . . . and 
 a revolver, which one never uses. We had some 
 delicious bathes in nice running streams, and very 
 refreshing they were, for the sun is hottish at 
 times. My nose is reddish-brown and peeling! 
 Here I am being hospitably entertained at the 
 farm. 
 
 'I do not know exactly my further move- 
 ments. ... If (as is probable) I have to go further 
 on from here, there will be no regular posts at 
 all. We don't expect regular communications.' 
 
 To THE SAME. 
 
 Salisbury, Dec. 27, 1894. 
 
 '. . . I have just returned all right from Gazaland. 
 You might send me Wilkinson's Ancient Egypt, and 
 Major Wingate's book on the Soudan, by registered 
 parcel post. . . . 
 
 'You tell me about School-Board excitements, 
 but, though I saw something about it, these things 
 seem small, or rather very local, to us out here. 
 From Mashonaland, and because of Mashonaland, 
 South Africa will be federated, and when South 
 Africa is federated we shall have taken a long 
 step towards Federation of the Empire. . . .
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON in 
 
 1 My companion, Doyne, is at present away, 
 bringing up six couple of hounds that have been 
 sent out from England. 
 
 '. . . My cucumbers are doing very well, and 
 I have got a pine-apple that has condescended to 
 grow. . .' 
 
 A quiet spell at Salisbury succeeded his return 
 from Gazaland. I will make use of the pause to 
 dwell for a few moments on the various friend- 
 ships which helped to brighten the daily routine 
 of his life. 
 
 His relations with George Grey and Coryndon 
 have already been referred to when speaking 
 of the first Matabele war. At Salisbury, though 
 one or other of the circle might occasionally be 
 absent for a while, the meetings were frequent 
 in the little society of which Dr. Jameson was at 
 this time the life and soul, and Lord and Lady 
 Henry Paulet, Mr. Marshall Hole, and a few other 
 prominent officials of the Chartered Company, 
 leading lights. Two young Englishmen, May and 
 Doyne, boarded with Hervey at his new house, 
 thus lending to it the additional attraction of 
 pleasant companionship. 
 
 Two friendships which grew to be amongst the
 
 ii2 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 closest and most valued of his African connexions, 
 and which were interwoven with Hervey's life down 
 to the very end, date from tins time. 
 
 Captain Scott Turner 1 , who as Quartermaster on 
 the Staff of Colonel Plumer in the second Matabele 
 war and as Civil Commissioner and Magistrate of 
 Umtali has rendered especially valuable service to 
 the Administration, first met Hervey at Salisbury 
 in 1894, and saw much of him during the period 
 that immediately ensued. It was through Captain 
 Turner that Hervey became acquainted with a 
 couple of books which excited his liveliest interest 
 and admiration : Mahan's Influence of Sea Power on 
 History, and Influence of Sea Power on the French 
 Bevolution and Empire. It is perhaps almost suffi- 
 cient to mention this fact to understand the links 
 that drew them together. 
 
 The other friend, Mr. Jesser Coope, one of the 
 most gallant and fearless men the Company has 
 in its service, shall speak for himself. Coope 
 sympathized with all Hervey's ideas, and shared 
 his conviction that a man can have no greater 
 privilege than to devote his energies, his health 
 and his life, to the extension of the British Empire. 
 
 1 Late Adjutant of the 42nd Highlanders, seconded for service in 
 Rhodesia.
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 113 
 
 His testimony shows that Hervey's influence was 
 not less invigorating and stimulating to the officials 
 in Rhodesia than it had been to the clerks in the 
 office at St. Swithin's Lane : — 
 
 * I first met Hubert Hervey at Salisbury in 
 Mashonaland, in January, 1894, just after his return 
 from the Matabele war. Shortly after this I was 
 laid up in the Salisbury Hospital for some weeks 
 with a severe attack of malarial fever. During 
 that time he came every day to see me, and, when 
 I was too ill to talk, he would read to me for 
 hours together. Shelley was his favourite author 
 on these occasions. He was full of great ideas 
 on the subject of Imperial federation and British 
 supremacy. His travelling library then consisted 
 of Dilke's Greater Britain, Mahan's two books, The 
 History of the Influence of Sea Poiver on the French 
 Revolution and The History of Sea Power on History, 
 and The Golden Treasury. 
 
 'He always had a great longing to explore the 
 country, and absolutely loved the free gipsy-like 
 life we led on the veldt ; and was never so happy 
 as when, after a hard day's work, we lay beside 
 our camp fire, our horses and native attendants 
 forming a picturesque background. He would talk 
 most brilliantly ; generally on his favourite topic 
 
 1
 
 ii 4 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 of British supremacy and the need of carrying on 
 the government of Africa on the best possible 
 lines. However tired or depressed I was, through 
 illness, shortness of food, or overwork, one such 
 evening spent with him on the veldt always acted 
 on me like a tonic, inspiring me to do the best 
 possible work myself, and encouraging me in a 
 determination always to continue doing my best. . . . 
 
 ' I can especially recall one occasion on which 
 he was in my camp en route to the East Coast, 
 where he was going to arrange for transport through 
 the "fly" country. He had little or no experience 
 of the difficulties before him, but I remember him 
 saying, " I shall listen to all I can hear from any- 
 body who has had useful local experience, but 
 in the end I shall do what I consider the best 
 to be done at the moment. Until I find out 
 personally what the difficulties are, it is useless 
 to form plans how to overcome them. Having 
 done the best I know, if I am not successful, 
 I shall, at least, have the satisfaction of feeling 
 that I have worked honestly." ' 
 
 Mr. Marshall Hole bears similar testimony to his 
 love of veldt life. 'A good talker,' he says, ' nothing 
 delighted him so much as a long argument at night, 
 or on the veldt, on some metaphysical problem
 
 AT WOKK UNDEK JAMESON 115 
 
 which he would propound ; and, as he was a sin- 
 gularly rapid and lucid thinker, he would draw, 
 with mischievous pleasure, his opponent into the 
 meshes of some hopeless paradox, on purpose to 
 help him out with a kindly word. 
 
 'No one who had once gained his friendship 
 ever willingly forfeited it, and those who were his 
 friends will cherish his memory with an affection 
 that will always remain.' 
 
 Meanwhile Hervey's keen intelligence interested 
 itself in every sort of local matter, from the better 
 organization of the Club, on the Committee of which 
 he sat, to experiments in African soil with all kinds 
 of seeds and fruit-trees imported from England. 
 
 1 My recollections,' writes Lady Henry Paulet, 
 ' are chiefly of those peaceful days at Salisbury. . . . 
 I knew him best as the kindest and most hospitable 
 of neighbours. . . . We had many and long con- 
 versations on the subject always nearest his heart 
 and uppermost in his mind — the Empire and its 
 expansion. To this, his whole life and energies 
 were devoted ; and, for this, no journey was too 
 long, no risk too great, no hardship or privation 
 too severe to be undertaken more than willingly — 
 gladly. ... In his own way, " John " Hervey l 
 
 1 His friends at Salisbury playfully nick-named him ' John,' from 
 
 I 2
 
 n6 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 was a great hero as well as a great gentleman. . . . 
 In many, many ways we shall not see his like 
 again.' 
 
 Mr. Seymour Fort, who was sometimes the 
 companion of afternoon rides and evening dis- 
 cussions when at Salisbury, tells the same tale. 
 Like every one else, he was deeply struck with 
 Hervey's thoroughness, and with the way in which 
 every prosaic detail of his daily life assumed a new 
 significance as a step in the achievement of a great 
 end. 
 
 In July, 1895, Hervey heard of the death of 
 his early and constant friend, Mrs. Arthur Mills. 
 He felt her loss deeply, as is evinced by the 
 following letter, written to her son. 
 
 To Captain Mills, R.E. 
 
 Salisbury, July 14, 1895. 
 
 'Your letter telling me of your mother's death 
 reached me last mail. In a way, I was of course 
 half expecting the news every week, but I feel 
 that the world is poorer now that her noble life 
 on earth has ceased. I say " on earth," because, 
 
 a resemblance they traced in his marked individuality to that of 
 his ancestor, the memoir-writer, John, Lord Hervey.
 
 AT WOEK UNDER JAMESON 117 
 
 though I do not know what may be hereafter, 
 yet, through the darkness, I hold to the hope 
 of, almost the belief in, immortality. She was 
 like a second mother to me, and I loved her deeply. 
 
 ' Her life stands out like a beacon ; one has 
 but to think of her, and one's belief in all that 
 is great and noble is strengthened, and meanness 
 and cynicism shrink into nothing ; one's whole 
 estimate of human nature is raised. Religion 
 without a particle of dreariness, true breadth 
 of view and toleration, unswerving principle and 
 deep tenderness, were the key-notes and essence 
 of her character ; and perhaps most of all a deep 
 and wide sympathy with all, but a sympathy that 
 never degenerated into weakness. . . . 
 
 'Let us join in hoping that it is not all "vanity 
 of vanities," but that an immortality exists where 
 we may meet again those we loved on earth.' 
 
 It was characteristic of Hervey always to restrain 
 his words rather within his feeling, than to exceed 
 its bounds by effulgent expression. This arose 
 partly from his innate dislike of exaggeration, 
 partly from the extreme sensitiveness of his 
 nature, which rarely threw off a certain reserve, 
 even in intimate utterance. But no one who
 
 n8 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 knew him well can doubt that the idea of immor- 
 tality, without taking any definite doctrinal form 
 (which would have been foreign to his nature), 
 was amongst the most sacredly cherished of all 
 his religious convictions. In argument with a 
 companion, who was upholding the theory that 
 right action was unaffected by questions of a future 
 state, he once replied that he did not see on what 
 our whole system of ethics would rest if there 
 were no life beyond the grave. 
 
 'His religion,' says Captain Mills, 'was like 
 much of his life : the soul too great for the body. 
 No organized religious system altogether satisfied 
 him. But he respected the good religion which 
 satisfied others, and more, he longed for it. Doubt, 
 in his case, was not only honest, it was painful. 
 
 'He often spoke of "The Church," the ideal 
 of visible ecclesiastical unity, as a grand one, 
 though not one in which he could himself believe. 
 He would dwell particularly on the historical view 
 of the idea of ecclesiastical unity having arisen 
 out of the visible political unity of the Roman 
 Empire; and, thinking over the matter now, 
 I expect his admiration for the Church ideal 
 was more political than spiritual. His real religion 
 was in his life, in his long patient struggle against
 
 AT WOKK UNDEK JAMESON 119 
 
 weak health, his cheerfulness under depressing 
 circumstances, his careful consideration for the 
 feelings of others, his deep, devout admiration 
 for self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, and noble actions 
 of all kinds, whether on the stage of the world, 
 or in the dullness of daily routine. 
 
 1 He would speak, as it were, between his teeth, 
 when praising some noble act which had moved 
 him. The feeling was real ; but he so dreaded 
 lest by cant of some kind he should gild the 
 pure gold, that he would restrain himself when 
 most admiring.' 
 
 During the greater part of 1895 he was kept 
 at Salisbury by his duties. His home letters 
 at this time were chiefly occupied with the 
 serious illness of his brother Algernon, which 
 was causing him the gravest concern. He received 
 six months' leave, and was most anxious to go to 
 England in order to satisfy himself as to the con- 
 dition of his brother, to whom he was deeply 
 attached. But the widely-spread feeling of unrest 
 and dissatisfaction which then prevailed in South 
 Africa, owing to the state of affairs in the 
 Transvaal, and the general belief that an explosion 
 of some sort was impending, made him hesitate
 
 120 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 to absent himself from the country at a moment 
 when his services might be in demand. More 
 than once he went to Dr. Jameson, begging not 
 to be allowed to go to England if any immediate 
 emergency were anticipated. Dr. Jameson assured 
 him that the Police might be for months in a 
 position of stationary inactivity, and strongly urged 
 him to take his well-earned holiday. Tranquillized 
 on this point, he accordingly started for England, 
 where he arrived on November 10, 1895, after 
 nearly three years' absence. 
 
 All who saw him during his brief sojourn at 
 home were astonished at the robust appearance 
 produced in him by the open-air life of the veldt. 
 His former look of delicacy had given place to 
 one of wiry health and activity. 
 
 Shortly after his arrival in England he was 
 selected by the Company to represent them as 
 the first Deputy Administrator of Barotselaud, 
 with orders to proceed there on the expiration 
 of his leave, and to make the best arrangement 
 in his power with King Lewanika for bringing 
 that portion of Africa under the rule of civilization. 
 
 He was much pleased at the prospect of this 
 new and responsible work, and at the proof of 
 confidence in him implied by his selection for
 
 AT WORK UNDER JAMESON 121 
 
 so important a post. He threw himself heart 
 and soul, while in London, into the preparations 
 necessary for his expedition to Lialui, which 
 occupied most of the intervals of his visits to 
 relations and friends. He hoped to be able to per- 
 suade Coryndon, George Grey, and Jesser Coope 
 to accompany him. With their assistance he felt 
 sure he would be able to do good work both for 
 the natives and for England. 
 
 After a family gathering at Sandringham Rectory, 
 he spent Christmas, 1895, at the sea-side, with 
 his brother Algernon, and his sister. His mind 
 was full of his future plans, and of African 
 problems and interests in all shapes. But hardly 
 two months of his leave had expired when the 
 thrilling news came of Jameson's incursion into 
 the Transvaal. It acted upon him like an electric 
 shock. Recognizing that the crisis was one in 
 winch it was desirable that every man should be 
 at his post, he offered the Directors, if they 
 wished it, to go back at once to Rhodesia. On 
 their accepting his offer, he cut short his leave, 
 and on January 11 sailed once more for the Cape. 
 On arriving in Africa, after a short delay at 
 Cape Town, he made his way to Bulawayo.
 
 122 HUBEET HEEVEY 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Bulawayo, March 8, 1896. 
 
 ' I got here all right yesterday, having ridden 
 up from Palapye (220 miles). I went from 
 Mafeking to Palapye by coach. ... As regards 
 politics, England is slow to move, and therein 
 has been one secret of her success, — she is not 
 always entangling herself in the intrigues of Con- 
 tinental politics, — but when roused she is, and 
 always has been, determined. . . . However, as 
 long as we keep a strong Navy, and a firm front, 
 we shall be all right.'
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 
 THE MATABELE REBELLION 
 (1896— 1897) 
 
 From Bulawayo he rode up to Salisbury to meet 
 Mr. Rhodes, who was coming across from Beira. 
 Hardly had he reached Salisbury when the Matabele 
 rebellion broke out. Hervey, who was holding the 
 appointment of Intelligence Officer in the Rhodesian 
 Horse, at once volunteered for active service. He 
 received a commission in Colonel Beal's force, 
 and, at his own request, joined the scouts (com- 
 manded by Captain Arthur Eyre), whose work 
 was the most dangerous and, consequently, to 
 him the most fascinating of all. 
 
 During the three weeks he remained at Salisbury 
 he was hospitably entertained by his friends, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Hole. In conversations 
 with the former, he, at this time, so frequently 
 expressed the opinion that death in action was 
 the most splendid that could befall a man, that
 
 124 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 it afterwards seemed to the listeners almost like 
 a presage of coming events. 
 
 His thoughts, however, were keenly occupied with 
 plans for his future work in Barotseland. At 
 Salisbury he saw Major Coryndon and asked him to 
 join the expedition as guide and hunter, which 
 Coryndon accepted. 1 
 
 On April 10, the Salisbury Column, escorting 
 Mr. Rhodes, started on its march. The brief 
 messages from the field that Hervey was able to 
 write home to his sister record the progress of the 
 expedition. 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Salisbury, April i, 1896. 
 
 'The native rising in Matabeleland has assumed 
 more serious proportions. ... It has been decided 
 to reinforce the white people and the forces in 
 Matabeleland with an expedition from here, which 
 I shall accompany. . . .' 
 
 Salisbury, April 9, 1896. 
 
 'We are off to-morrow, and shall probably take 
 about a fortnight getting to Gwelo (about 170 miles 
 
 1 Major Coryndon was, on Hervey's deaths appointed to the 
 Barotseland mission in his place.
 
 THE MATABELE REBELLION 125 
 
 from here), from whence onward the country is very 
 disturbed. As you will have heard from the 
 papers, there have been several engagements. It 
 is absolutely necessary to suppress this native 
 rising. I told you in another letter that I have 
 a commission, and I shall be with the scouts ; 
 Eyre is in command of them, Beal is in command 
 of the Salisbury lot. There is no cause for undue 
 anxiety, and all will end right. But of course 
 we may see some fighting. ... Be quite cheerful 
 about me, as we shall have a very good time. . . . 
 I am of course mounted. . . .' 
 
 Gwelo Township, May 10, 1896. 
 
 ' . . . We have arrived all safe at Gwelo and 
 I have not seen a shot fired, though a few shots 
 have been fired. Most of the column have gone 
 out to Mavene, about twenty-five miles north-west 
 of this, where the Matabele are supposed to be in 
 force, but I think it is quite on the cards they 
 may return without any fighting to speak of. 
 Of course I should have liked to have gone too, 
 but I had to stay behind to take care of the few 
 men of the Salisbury column who did not go. 
 
 '. . . I expect we shall be moving on to the 
 Shangani drift (i.e. where the road to Bulawayo
 
 126 HUBEET HERVEY 
 
 crosses the Shangani river) in a few days, to meet 
 a force of 500 (white) men who are advancing to join 
 us from Bulawayo under Napier. I do not expect 
 there will be many Matabele there, as I think they 
 are all clearing off away to the north-west, 
 down the lower Gwelo and lower Shangani. . . . 
 After we get to the Shangani, our movements are 
 uncertain. . . . Well, good-bye. I dare say (alas !) 
 I shall not see a shot fired the whole time. . . .' 
 
 The junction was duly effected ; and, when 
 the column reached Filabusi, Hervey left with 
 Mr. Rhodes, escorted by Napier's column, for 
 Bulawayo. 
 
 To HIS SlSTEK. 
 
 Camp neab Belingwe Road (about 50 miles ENE. 
 of Bulawayo), May 25, 1896. 
 
 '. . . I expect we shall get to Bulawayo in 
 about five days. After that, it is uncertain what 
 will happen, but I shall be able, I expect, to write 
 to you from there, as the mail route to the south 
 is, I believe, open. The crisis of the rebellion is 
 over, but much work still remains to be done. 
 The bulk of this will however be done by a per- 
 manent force, I expect.'
 
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 Bulawayo, June i, 1896. 
 
 ' I have arrived safely at Bulawayo. The Salis- 
 buiy column went out for a few days' longer 
 patrol, but, as I wanted to get in, I came through 
 with the Bulawayo column, which met us on the 
 Shangani. ... I think the main force of the 
 rebellion is quelled, but a lot of work remains to 
 be done, as it would certainly be unsafe to travel 
 about the country at present alone, or with only 
 two or three companions. 
 
 ' The mail route to Salisbury is still closed, that 
 is, between here and Salisbury. There is not 
 much news. Salisbury, Bulawayo, Gwelo, and all 
 townships are perfectly safe, but the natives still 
 hold a good deal of the open country. The great 
 difficulty is that they won't stay to fight any large 
 force, so that the whole thing is being gradually 
 reduced to a tedious guerrilla warfare. . . .' 
 
 I had myself reached Bulawayo shortly before, 
 and on Hervey's arrival I selected him for the 
 office of Paymaster of the various forces engaged 
 in putting down the rebellion. 
 
 Hervey was most anxious to remain on active 
 service, and much disliked the necessity of re- 
 maining in the town while the rebellion was still
 
 128 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 unsubdued, and his friends were risking their lives 
 on the veldt. But on my representing to him that 
 I wanted the best man that could be found for 
 this important post, the duties of which, owing 
 to the number of troops in the field, and the 
 different commands, were most complex and 
 difficult, and that in my opinion he was the best 
 man I could obtain, he accepted the task without 
 complaint ; his only object being to assist the 
 Administration in the manner in which his services 
 could be of the greatest help. 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Bulawayo, June 16, 1896. 
 
 '. . . You need not be anxious now that I am 
 Paymaster ; I am not campaigning, and Bulawayo 
 itself is as safe as Piccadilly.' 
 
 Paymaster-Genekal's Department, Bulawayo, 
 June 19, 1896. 
 
 ' Two mails go weekly to Cape Town, but in the 
 present uncertain state of the posts it is not 
 always sure that a given mail will catch a given 
 boat, so I sometimes write to you by both mails, 
 so as to be sure of catching the earliest boat.
 
 THE MATABELE EEBELLION 129 
 
 Therefore you will sometimes get two letters by 
 one mail. 
 
 'We now hear of the murder of white people 
 by natives in Mashonaland ! . . . This means that 
 Mashonaland too is unsafe, in the outlying districts, 
 for prospectors, miners, and farmers. 
 
 'The country is indeed having a trying time of 
 it. The towns are always, however, perfectly safe. 
 I am very well.' 
 
 Bulawayo, July 3, 1896. 
 
 ' A hurried line to say I am all right. Part of 
 the forces (the Bulawayo Field Force) is being 
 disbanded, so I am awfully busy for a bit. A new 
 police force is being formed to replace it. No 
 particular news. . . .' 
 
 Bulawayo, July 6, 1896. 
 
 1 1 have just got your letter of June 5. ... It 
 is just possible we may get news to-day or 
 to-morrow that Colonel Plumer's force, who have 
 gone north to Thamas Imambi, may have a fight, 
 but I doubt it; I think the Matabele will clear. 
 The next move will probably be against the 
 Matoppo Hills. . . .' 
 
 Bulawayo, July 9, 1896. 
 
 'Nothing much to chronicle. It is of no use 
 
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 130 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 my telling you that such and such a column has 
 had a brush with Matabele, for you see it by cable 
 in the " Times " weeks before my letter arrives. 
 Colonel Plumer's force has, however, had a fight, 
 and captured some grain and cattle. . . .' 
 
 About this time, in looking through a parcel 
 of books and newspapers which had been sent to 
 him, long before, by a friend in England, but 
 which in the vicissitudes of his African life had 
 never been opened, he came across a letter in 
 which the dangers he had undergone in the first 
 Matabele war were sympathetically alluded to. 
 His answer is too characteristic to be omitted. 
 
 Bulawayo, (about) July 15, 1896. 
 
 'I am writing to thank you for your letter of 
 April 12, 1894 ! I found it the other day inside 
 one of the "Punches" you so kindly sent me. 
 I received them . . . last October, but, as I was 
 then travelling through, I never have had any 
 time till now to look at them properly. ... I do 
 not know if you will remember all you wrote, but 
 really as regards being "face to face with death," 
 that we all are always, and in the war of 1893 
 the newspaper accounts and pictures were (as
 
 THE MATABELE EEBELLION 131 
 
 now also) so exaggerated that things were made 
 to seem a great deal more dangerous than they 
 really were. In this present business, I have not 
 seen a shot fired ; but, after all, why is a bullet 
 going within a yard or two more dangerous than 
 a hansom cab nearly running one over as it passes 
 a corner?' 
 
 During the seven weeks that he spent in 
 Bulawayo, he found himself among many old 
 comrades. He stayed with George Grey until the 
 latter's departure for England at the end of July. 
 Jesser Coope, too, was there ; and Captain Scott 
 Turner, with whom as Quarter-Master of Colonel 
 Plumer's column he had continual business 
 relations, saw him frequently a ; and many other 
 friends, all actively engaged in the military 
 operations for the suppression of the rebellion. 
 They tell of long evening walks when off duty, 
 and frequent conversations on the subjects Hervey 
 loved to dwell upon. 
 
 I had more than one long ride and intimate 
 
 1 Captain Turner relates a characteristic anecdote of a con- 
 versation which had taken place between himself and Hervey one 
 morning in Col. Plumer's camp ; when, in answer to some remark. 
 Hervey laughingly exclaimed that if he were convinced that Rhodes 
 was not a true Imperialist he would go straight off and shoot him ! 
 
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 132 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 talk with Hervey at this time, and was greatly 
 impressed by his high ideals, by his earnestness, 
 and by the scope and proportion of his views. 
 His personal acquaintance with administrative 
 difficulties and requirements led him to attach the 
 greatest importance to the introduction of a little 
 red-tape into our methods of administration, and 
 as he fully realized the necessity of establishing 
 the administration on the basis of departmental 
 responsibility, which was the special object I 
 had in view in accepting for a time the office of 
 Administrator, his companionship and talk were 
 to me of the greatest assistance. 
 
 'I am confident,' he writes to his sister on 
 July 12, 'that sooner or later the whole of South 
 Africa will be federated under British protection.' 
 
 He was longing all this time to get out in the 
 field, whenever his services as Paymaster could 
 be dispensed with. As soon as I was satisfied 
 that the duties for which he was responsible could 
 be safely entrusted to the officer l who became his 
 successor, I relieved him from a post which 
 I was aware was irksome to him, and Hervey, 
 like a boy released from school, hurried to the 
 front. 
 
 1 Major Everett.
 
 CHAPTER VIII 
 
 THE LAST FIGHT 
 (l8 9 6) 
 
 For some time past it had become evident that 
 no real progress could be made with the war 
 until the Matabele had been dislodged, either by 
 diplomacy or by arms, from the strongholds in the 
 Matoppo Hills in which they had taken refuge. 
 This was the difficult and anxious task now 
 confronting the leaders of the campaign ; and on 
 July 24 Hervey joined the forces to take part 
 in these operations. His spirits rose in proportion 
 to the danger. 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Bulawayo, July 23, 1896. 
 
 ' I had half thought of not telling you that I am 
 off again, for a fortnight anyhow, on active ser- 
 vice. ... I am delighted. . . . You see I am 
 telling you, because I think the most uncomfort-
 
 134 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 able position is to feel that anyone at a distance 
 is concealing anything. ... I am going to-morrow 
 to the Matoppos, where General Carrington and 
 Colonel Plumer are in command. I have lots 
 of friends there. ... I am so pleased to get to 
 active service again. . . . All this was only settled 
 to-day. . . .' 
 
 General Carrington, to whom he had applied, 
 sent him out to the column under Colonel Plumer, 
 who gave him command of one of the detach- 
 ments of his corps. It was composed of a small 
 section of white men who had voluntarily enlisted 
 with Robertson's Cape Boys, but who had recently 
 petitioned General Carrington to be formed 
 into a separate troop. Later a small number of 
 the Bulawayo Field Force was incorporated with 
 them, making about fifty in all, under Hervey's 
 command. 
 
 Taking the greatest interest in his work and 
 his men, he very soon won their confidence and 
 affection, and led them throughout the marching 
 and fighting of July 31, and of the early days of 
 August.
 
 
 A. R. Q.- 
 
 HUBERT HERVEY'S GRAVE.
 
 THE LAST FIGHT 135 
 
 To his Sister. 
 
 Colonel Plumer's Column, near Matoppo Hills, 
 July 29, 1896. 
 
 ' I am out here for the present, and am very 
 well. We are moving on next Friday, but you 
 need not be anxious about me. Of course, we 
 may have a little fighting, but that will be over 
 (this particular bit of fighting, anyhow) long before 
 you get this letter, so that, if I were at all hurt, 
 you would hear about it by cable long before you 
 get this \ Lovely weather. I am in a very 
 pleasant mess (Colonel Plumer's), and Turner, 
 Coope, and other old friends are here. . . . This 
 is quite a picnic. . . .' 
 
 Mr. Jesser Coope tells of Hervey's boyish delight 
 in the brief period of campaigning which preceded 
 the last fight. He often discussed with Coope, 
 who was his constant companion during these 
 days, the expedition to Barotseland, which lay 
 before him as soon as order was restored, dwelling 
 with eager enthusiasm on the work he hoped to 
 accomplish there. 
 
 On August 1 Colonel Plumer's column marched 
 
 1 This letter and six others reached his sister after the news of 
 his death.
 
 i 3 6 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 from Usher's Farm, and engaged the rebels at 
 the head of Umchabaze valley, in the Matoppos. 
 On the 2nd they moved along the hills, and 
 drove the enemy out of the caves at Nyanda's 
 mountain, proceeding thence up the Tuli road to 
 Dawson's Store, where they camped. It was a 
 long and exhausting day, but Hervey was in the 
 highest spirits, and apparently incapable of feeling 
 fatigue. 
 
 The next day, August 3, was one of rest, after 
 the rather severe exertions of the two preceding 
 ones ; and this is the date of his last letter to 
 England. It visibly reflects the buoyant state of 
 mind in which it was written. 
 
 To his Sistek. 
 
 Colonel Pltjmer's Column, Umsingwane River, 
 
 Matoppo Hills (about 35 miles SE. of Bulawayo), 
 August 3, 1896. 
 
 ' The above description will tell you whereabouts 
 we are. ... I am very well and thoroughly enjoy- 
 ing the picnic. We shelled some kopjes yesterday, 
 but there was very little firing otherwise, and only 
 one man slightly wounded on our side. The 
 weather is lovely, a little cold just in the early 
 mornings sometimes, but otherwise very pleasant.
 
 THE LAST FIGHT 137 
 
 I have not much news for you. . . . The Matoppos 
 are a difficult country ; rocky kopjes, with caves 
 in them, in which the Matabele can hide .... Our 
 mess has, among others, Turner, whom you will 
 recollect my going to see in London. Colonel 
 Plumer is in command ; Colonel Baden-Powell 
 (known in Ashanti) chief of the staff. It is really 
 a delightful picnic. . . . We generally get up about 
 5.30, breakfast about 8 (early cocoa at 6) ; lunch 12 ; 
 dinner 7 ; bed 8.30 or 9. It is very pretty country 
 all about the hills, and day after day comes with 
 certainty of a cloudless sky and a brilliant sun. . . .' 
 
 Early on August 4 the column marched to a spot 
 called Sugar Bush Camp (where Fort Umlugulu 
 now stands), continuing the march before day- 
 break on the 5th in order to attack the rebel 
 chiefs, Umlugulu and Sikombo, in the Matoppo 
 Hills. At about 6.15 a.m. the force halted in 
 a space between two big, bald-headed kopjes, 
 opening into a valley, beyond which lay Umlu- 
 gulu's and Sikombo's mountain. Colonel Plumer 
 then sent all the dismounted men, including 
 Hervey's detachment, forward with the guns, 
 Captain Beresford being in command. About an 
 hour later Beresford's force was suddenly sur-
 
 138 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 rounded and attacked by a large body of the 
 enemy, a mass of whom, on high ground above 
 our men, were able to fire at short range into 
 their ranks. To put a stop to this, Hervey was 
 ordered to occupy a ridge ; and, dashing forward 
 at the head of his men, fell mortally wounded 
 as he led them up the kopje. 
 
 He was laid on a stretcher in the shelter of 
 two large rocks. He told the men to go on fighting 
 and see to him afterwards. From the moment he 
 was hit, he was calm and unconcerned, although 
 from the first he knew there was no hope of 
 his recovery. 
 
 Meanwhile the engagement had become general. 
 Jesser Coope, with his scouts, was unable to pene- 
 trate to Beresford, who signalled to him that he 
 was heavily pressed, and that Hervey was severely 
 wounded. In another hour reinforcements had 
 come up, and Coope had time to go to Hervey 
 for a few minutes. He found him perfectly con- 
 scious and collected, and able to give his own 
 directions about the cable-message to be sent home 
 to his family. His only trouble was that they should 
 be distressed ; his only thought to break the news 
 to them as gently as possible. For himself not 
 a pang, still less a fear. All who saw him were
 
 THE LAST FIGHT 139 
 
 struck by his complete serenity of demeanour ; 
 that inner serenity of the strong and pure soul 
 which no outward event, not even the coming 
 of death, could cloud or disturb. 
 
 Mr. Weston Jarvis was with him when Coope 
 came up. Hervey did not seem then to be in 
 much pain. He remarked on the strangeness of 
 the nerves, saying that, although shot in the body, 
 all he felt was an aching in the legs. 
 
 The fight meanwhile had spread, and was at 
 its height all round. Some idea of its stubborn 
 character may be gathered from the fact that five 
 impis had been combined under the prime leaders 
 of the rebellion, Umlugulu and Sikombo, for a 
 final blow. 
 
 The engagement, which was one of the most 
 important of the war, eventually resulted in the 
 complete rout of the Matabele. But the difficult 
 and exposed nature of the ground, and the nume- 
 rical inequality, caused a heavy list of casualties 
 on our side, in proportion to the forces engaged. 
 At eleven o'clock Major Kershaw was shot dead 
 while storming the range of hills to the left. 
 Robertson's attack was made at twelve o'clock, 
 Baden-Powell's half an hour later, and at one 
 o'clock the Matabele were in full flight. The
 
 140 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 enemy's total force was estimated at 4,000 men, 
 and their losses at from 200 to 300. Our force 
 numbered 760, of whom six were killed and 
 fifteen wounded. 
 
 After the fight was over, several of Hervey's 
 friends were able to go and speak to him. 
 Amongst them were Colonel Plumer and Captain 
 Scott Turner. ' He asked me all about the details 
 of the fight,' writes Colonel Plumer, ' and when 
 I told him we had inflicted a pretty severe defeat 
 on the rebels he said, " Oh, that is all right ; 
 I don't mind a bit now." He knew quite well he 
 was dying, and the way he faced death is a lesson 
 to us all. . . . You will have had many tributes 
 to his memory from those who had known him 
 longer than I had ; but, though I had known 
 him for only a short time, it was sufficient for 
 me to be able to appreciate his character, and to 
 thoroughly respect and admire him.' 
 
 When Coope rejoined the column at about six 
 o'clock in the evening, he found Hervey looking 
 so much better than in the morning that it was 
 hard for lookers-on to believe the sad truth that 
 there was no hope for him. 
 
 The white men volunteered to carry him back 
 to camp, a long march, to save him from the
 
 THE LAST FIGHT 141 
 
 jolting of the wagon. With his usual unselfish- 
 ness, he tried to dissuade them from doing so, 
 knowing that they were tired out with the day's 
 work ; thanking them for their services when 
 they persisted in their kind intention. Notwith- 
 standing the jar of the rough ground, which must 
 often have given him severe pain, he was perfectly 
 composed, and spoke with cheerfulness to the 
 friends who came up to see him. To one of 
 them he said in his most playful manner, ' Who 
 knows but that I may soon be pegging out claims 
 for England in Jupiter ! ' 
 
 And it was now as he was being carried back, 
 a dying man, to the camp which he had left, 
 so full of life and vigour, in the morning, that 
 he uttered those words which have already become 
 a proverb wherever his name is known : ' Well, 
 it is a grand thing to die for the expansion of 
 the Empire ! ' 
 
 ' Words,' says one of his greatest friends, ' that 
 may well be called more than striking. Such 
 a death is inspiring to those who still live. Such 
 words may echo in the hearts of those who never 
 knew the man.' 
 
 It was after dark when they reached camp. 
 Everything possible was then done for him by
 
 142 HUBEET HERVEY 
 
 Doctors Michell and Lunan, but from the first 
 it had been clear that recovery was impossible. 
 
 Captain Scott Turner visited him at about nine 
 o'clock that evening. ' Everybody who met him,' 
 writes Captain Turner, ' between the day he joined 
 the column and his death respected him, and all 
 those who were brought into contact with him 
 after his terrible wound bear witness to his un- 
 flinching courage and gentleness.' 
 
 All that night from the 5th to the 6th of August, 
 his devoted friend, Mr. Jesser Coope, watched by 
 him and tended him. He slept well, and was 
 comfortable and free from pain when he awoke 
 in the morning. He did not talk much, dozing 
 quietly most of the thne. But when awake he 
 was perfectly conscious, and, as ever, full of 
 consideration for others. By Jesser Coope he 
 sent messages to each of those at home, not 
 forgetting his mother's old maid, a faithful servant 
 of forty years' standing. 
 
 In the course of the morning he asked to see 
 Mr. Rhodes, who with Major-General Sir Frederick 
 Carrington and Colonel Plumer visited him as he 
 lay dying. The thought of his sister was upper- 
 most in his mind. He asked Mr. Rhodes whether 
 the Company meant to give any pensions, and
 
 THE LAST FIGHT 143 
 
 begged that, if this were the case, whatever he 
 would have been entitled to might be given to 
 her. On receiving Mr. Ehodes's promise that his 
 wish should be fulfilled, his whole face cleared and 
 lighted up. He looked, as Mr. Rhodes described 
 it, ' quite happy.' 
 
 Those who saw him at that supreme moment 
 were deeply struck by the perfect unselfishness 
 and fearlessness which characterized him in death 
 as in life. 
 
 'He never thought of himself,' said Mr. Ehodes 
 in narrating the story of that last interview, 'he 
 was without self. . . . He was without fear, he 
 did not know fear, — and without self. ... I knew 
 him very well. That feeling about the Empire 
 was the ideal of his life. There is a great deal 
 of talk about the Imperial idea, but unhappily 
 self is so often beneath it. That is where it is ; 
 people say all this, but self is so often at the 
 bottom of it. With him it was absolutely pure : 
 it was a true and selfless ideal. . . . 
 
 ' I should like that trait of his thought for his 
 sister, half an hour before he died, to be added 
 to the memoir. It shows his utter unselfishness. 
 There may be cynical people who will say about 
 the Imperial part " Oh yes — we know — it is
 
 144 HUBEET HERVEY 
 
 generally a cover for self." But when they see 
 that, half an hour before death, he had still no 
 thought about himself, that all his thought was 
 for others, they will feel that there was no self 
 in him. Half an hour before death ! I had gone 
 to him wondering what he wished — other men 
 might have had other thoughts — but his were 
 still, even then, only for others. . . . ' 
 
 When, an hour or so after the interview, 
 Mr. Rhodes was told of his death, it seemed 
 almost impossible to believe the tidings, so vigorous 
 had every faculty appeared but a short time 
 previously. The end came very peacefully. He 
 had been sleeping quietly for some time, and 
 Mr. Coope was waiting by him, expecting him 
 to wake. At about twenty minutes after mid-day, 
 Dr. Lunan came through, and, glancing at his face, 
 said all was over. So gently did Hervey's brave 
 spirit pass into eternity. 
 
 He was buried just before sun-down on the 
 same day, August 6, 1896, by the side of Major 
 Kershaw and the others who had fallen in the 
 same action. In a beautiful spot beneath spread- 
 ing trees, on the western side of the Tuli-Bulawayo 
 road, some six miles below where it crosses the 
 Umsingwane River, is the little cemetery (now
 
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 enclosed) where Hubert Hervey was laid to his 
 last rest. 
 
 Six officers, Captains Beresford, Carden, Whitaker, 
 Coope, and the two Llewellyns \ bore him to his 
 grave. Captain Scott Turner took charge of the 
 volley-firing and salutes. Colonel Plumer read the 
 service, and General Carrington, Mr. Rhodes, and 
 every officer and man attended. 
 
 ' He was indeed a friend to be proud of,' writes 
 Mr. Jesser Coope, ' so honest, so brave, so gentle ! 
 Kind and thoughtful for all. I cannot ever 
 remember having heard him say one unkind 
 word of anybody, but I was constantly surprised 
 by the number of his kind actions, which, unknown 
 to himself, came under my observation. 
 
 'When the sad news of his having fallen 
 mortally wounded while gallantly leading on his 
 men to the charge was signalled to me, I knew 
 he had given his life to his country, doing, as 
 was always the case with him, what he considered 
 the best thing at the moment. 
 
 'He was one of the Nelson type of Englishmen 
 who, all over the world, having sacrificed them- 
 selves for " duty," have made the British Empire 
 
 1 All these officer?, with the exception of Captain Beresford, were 
 men who had known Hervey since he first arrived in Rhodesia. 
 
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 146 HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 what it is to-day. Duty — not self-interest nor 
 even expediency — was always his incentive to 
 work ; and, such being the case, it is not surprising 
 that he won the love, respect, and admiration of 
 all who knew him/
 
 •«*» 
 
 €••■
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 The news of Hubert Hervey's death was 
 received with feelings of genuine and heartfelt 
 distress by all who knew him. Messages of 
 sympathy poured in on his relations ; from the 
 kind letter of condolence addressed to Canon 
 Hervey by command of the Queen to the tributes 
 of far-distant friends, not less deeply valued 
 because in some instances the writers were wholly 
 unknown to the recipients. 
 
 The Prince of Wales, who had taken a warm 
 personal interest in Hervey's career, spoke of his 
 'heroic death,' in the sympathetic letter addressed 
 to Hervey's eldest brother, and has since raised 
 a monument to his memory in a brass tablet 
 placed in Sandringham Church, on which the 
 following words are inscribed : 
 
 IN MEMORY OF 
 
 HUBERT JOHN ANTONY HERVEY 
 
 YOUNGEST SON OF LORD AND LADY ALFRED HERVEY 
 AND BROTHER OF THE REV. CANON HERVEY, RECTOR OF SANDRINGHAM 
 
 BORN MAY 19, 1859. DIED AUGUST 6, 1 896 
 
 FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION THE PREVIOUS DAY IN THE MATOPPO 
 HILLS, SOUTH AFRICA, WHEN GALLANTLY SERVING AS A VOLUNTEER IN 
 THE MATABELE WAR. 
 
 ALBERT EDWARD P. POSUIT. 
 
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 1& HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 Hervey's many personal friends have united in 
 the erection of a memorial bronze, of great beauty 
 and almost indestructible workmanship, in that 
 country for which he laid down his life. No 
 more fitting spot could have been chosen for it 
 than in the Memorial Hospital at Bulawayo. 
 
 The following is a list of the names of some 
 of those who subscribed to it : — 
 
 Rt. Hon. C. J. Rhodes. Hamon le Strange, Esq. 
 
 Earl Grey. F. A. Newdigate, Esq. 
 
 Lord Francis Hervey. M. Euan-Smith, Esq., M.P. 
 
 A. F. M. Spalding, Esq. Major Mills, R.E. 
 
 S. E. Bouverie Pusey, Esq. Eyre A. Crowe, Esq. 
 
 R. J. Parker, Esq. H. Gurney, Esq. 
 
 Hon. Mrs. John Grey. H. Marshall Hole, Esq. 
 
 Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. George Grey, Esq. 
 
 Lady Montagu of Beaulieu. H. Wilson Fox, Esq. 
 
 Capt. J. A. C. Gibbs. John Fry, Esq. 
 
 E. C. Atherton Byrom, Esq. 
 
 The inscription runs as follows : — 
 
 CIVIS BRITANNICUS SUM 
 
 HUBERT JOHN ANTONY HERVEY 
 
 BORN MAY 19, 1859 
 
 YOUNGEST SON OF LORD ALFRED HERVEY 
 
 EDUCATED AT ETON AND AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 
 
 LIEUTENANT IN THE RHODESIA HORSE 
 
 DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION IN THE 
 
 MATOPPO HILLS, MATABELELAND 
 
 AUGUST 6, 1896 
 
 SANS PEUR ET SANS REPKOCHE
 
 APPENDIX 149 
 
 A Cross has been placed by Hervey's family 
 over the grave at Umlugulu, bearing the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 TO THE MEMORY 
 
 HONOURED AND MUCH LOVED 
 
 OF 
 
 HUBEET JOHN ANTONY HERVEY 
 
 YOUNGEST SON OF LORD AND LADY ALFRED HERVEY, AND GRANDSON 
 OF FREDERICK 'WILLIAM, FIRST MARQUESS OF BRISTOL 
 
 BORN MAY 19, 1859 
 
 DIED AUGUST 6, 1 896 
 
 HAVING BEEN MORTALLY WOUNDED IN ACTION, AUGUST 5, IN THE MATOPPO 
 HILLS, WHILE GALLANTLY SERVING AS A VOLUNTEER IN THE MATABELE WAR, 
 
 HIS DEEPLY-SORROWING BROTHERS, SISTER AND 
 
 SISTER-IN-LAW ERECTED THIS CROSS. 
 
 ' LORD, WHO SHALL DWELL IN THY TABERNACLE, OR WHO SHALL RISE UP 
 IN THY HOLY HILL? EVEN HE THAT LEADETH AN UNCORRUPT LIFE, AND 
 DOETH THE THING THAT IS RIGHT, AND SPEAKETH THE TRUTH FROM HIS 
 HEART.' — PSALM XV. I, 2. 
 
 • LOOKING FOR THAT BLESSED HOPE, THE GLORIOUS APPEARING OF THE 
 GREAT GOD AND OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.' — TITUS H. 13. 
 
 It would be impossible here to do more than 
 briefly mention the mass of tributes to his noble 
 qualities received by Iris relations from every 
 quarter. The London Board of the British South 
 Africa Company sent their official condolence to 
 his family. Two letters which I am permitted 
 to reproduce may here stand in the place of 
 many ; all of which express in varying terms the 
 same appreciation and the same regret.
 
 ISO HUBERT HERVEY 
 
 From Dr. Jameson to Lord Grey. 
 
 ' Looking back on the three years of my close 
 and uninterrupted friendship with Hervey, from 
 his first arrival in Mashonaland in 1892 till my 
 finally leaving the country at the end of 1895, 
 I can truly say that I have never come across 
 a more loyal and unselfish soul, and that no one 
 could have had a more untiring and devoted 
 colleague than I had in Hervey. It would be 
 superfluous for me to recapitulate what you and 
 his friends, George Grey and Coryndon, have 
 already put on record ; but I would especially 
 like to emphasize your account of his unselfish 
 and self-sacrificing action during the troubles of 
 1893, and the value I attached to his action at 
 that time : an action which I don't think is too 
 highly estimated when considered as one of the 
 main factors in the success of the expedition. 
 
 ' It was no doubt that same spirit of enthusiasm 
 and self-sacrifice which led to his sad death in 
 1896 : an ending so sadly deplored by every one, 
 except poor Hervey himself.'
 
 APPENDIX 151 
 
 Feom Lokd Loch to Canon Hervey. 
 
 44 Elm Park Gardens, S.W. 
 August 9, 1896. 
 
 ' Dear Mr. Hervey, 
 
 'Will you allow me to write you a few lines 
 to express my very deep regret at the death of 
 your gallant and very able brother. I had the 
 pleasure of seeing a good deal of him, and knew 
 the very good service and excellent example he 
 had done and shown from the very commence- 
 ment of the first Matabele war : and can appreciate 
 the very great loss he will be, not only to the 
 Company he served, but to the larger interests 
 connected with the extension of civilization in 
 those distant countries. 
 
 'Will you allow me to join Lady Loch's name 
 with mine in the expression of sympathy for you 
 and his family that we feel, at this early termina- 
 tion of what would have been, I believe, had he 
 lived, a great career. 
 
 'Believe me, 
 
 'Yours very truly, 
 
 ' Loch.'
 
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 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEAN MERIVALE, 
 
 TKflttb Selections Trom bis Correspondence. 
 
 Edited by his Daughter, JUDITH ANNE MERIVALE. 
 
 One vol., with Photograzmre Porti-ait, demy Zvo., \0>s. 
 
 Extract from the Preface. 
 
 ' My father's Autobiography and Letters were originally printed for 
 
 private circulation among members of his own family and some of his 
 
 more intimate friends. Many persons, however, beyond these limits 
 
 having expressed an interest in the book, it is now offered to the public 
 
 at large, with the addition of a few letters, addressed to Dean Lake, 
 
 which have only recently come into my hands, and the omission of such 
 
 others as seemed to possess more domestic than general interest.' 
 
 PASSAGES IN A WANDERING LIFE. 
 
 By THOMAS ARNOLD, M.A. 
 
 One vol., octavo. 
 
 The author of these reminiscences is the second son of the late Dr. 
 Arnold of Rugby. His recollections of old school and college days 
 refer to many well-known people. After leaving the University he 
 emigrated to New Zealand, at the time when the country was first being 
 settled, and his account of the early colonists and their life forms an 
 interesting subject of comparison with more modern phases of 
 development. Returning to England, he settled in Oxford, and his 
 friendship with the late Cardinal Newman supplies materials for some 
 valuable pages.
 
 EASTERN ESSAYS. 
 
 By . 
 
 One vol., demy &vo., 16s. 
 
 The work opens with an Introduction pointing out that Turkey is 
 unlike any other country in Europe. Turks, Greeks, Servians, Bul- 
 garians, etc.. live side by side, quarrelling with one another, and each 
 having their own language, religion, and customs, not in different districts 
 as in Austria, but in the same district. The explanation of this is given 
 only by history. The Turks in a way are a great Conservative force. 
 They have preserved the strange medley which they found in Eastern 
 Europe exactly as it was when they first appeared. The introduction 
 is, therefore, followed by a historical sketch of the Balkan Peninsula 
 before the capture of Constantinople. Then succeeds a chapter 
 describing the Turk. What is the most important influence to which 
 the Turk has been subjected ? — Mohammedanism. An essay is 
 devoted to this and another to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Further 
 essays discuss Turkish Administration, and work out the details in 
 chapters on the Greeks, the Slavs, the Albanians, etc. The whole work 
 is extremely valuable and important, and will, it is hoped, be ready 
 by Christmas. 
 
 TANGWEERA: 
 
 B %ifc among (Sentle Savages. 
 
 By C. NAPIER BELL, M.I.CE. 
 
 With numerous Illustrations from Sketches by the Author. 
 One vol., demy Svo., cloth, 16s. 
 
 In this book are recounted the adventures of a youth passed among 
 che Indians of the Mosquito Coast, and of the forests through which the 
 rivers of that little-known region flow. The author was in childhood the 
 playmate of the young Mosquito king, who at that time enjoyed British 
 protection ; and, speaking the language of the Indians like one of them- 
 selves, had every opportunity of observing their habits and dispositions, 
 as well as those of the wild animals which he hunted in their company. 
 The beautiful and curious birds of the Central American forests have 
 been his favourite study. An introductory chapter gives some account 
 of the manner in which the Mosquito region, destined perhaps to 
 become better known to the rest of the world when the Nicaragua Canal 
 is made, obtained and lost its position as a more or less fully recognised 
 British dependency.
 
 HUBERT HERVEY, 
 
 Student ano Jmperialist. 
 
 A Memoir. 
 
 By the Right Hon. EARL GREY, 
 
 Late Administrator of Rhodesia. 
 
 One vol., demy 8vo., ivith Photogravure Portrait and otlier Illustrations 
 and a Map, "js. 6d. 
 
 Extract from the Preface. 
 
 ' My knowledge of Hubert Hervey during the last few years of his 
 short career, when he was serving the British South Africa Chartered 
 Company, first in their London offices, and subsequently in responsible 
 administrative posts in Rhodesia, led me to regard him as one of the 
 most chivalrous and high-minded men it has been my privilege to 
 meet. Such was the wealth of Hervey's strong individuality that he left 
 to all who were acquainted with him an abundant store of memories, 
 varied, original and characteristic. But the attraction of his personality 
 was rooted and grounded in the yet deeper strata of great principles and 
 high ideals.' 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Chap. I. Eton and Cambridge. — II. Dreams in London. — III. In the 
 Chartered Company's Office. — IV. En route for the Frontier. — V. The 
 Matabele War. — VI. At Work under Jameson. — VII. The Second 
 Matabele War.— VIII. The Last Fight. 
 
 FINLAND AND THE TSARS. 
 
 By JOSEPH R. FISHER, B.A., 
 
 Barrister-at-law. 
 
 Demy Svo., cloth. 
 
 The Tsar's Manifesto of February 15, 1899, and the New Military 
 Law, are regarded in Finland as a virtual abolition of the constitutional 
 liberties solemnly guaranteed to the Grand Duchy by the Tsar Alex- 
 ander I., and confirmed by all his successors. Finland is one of the 
 most interesting States in Europe, and one of the least known to 
 Englishmen, and this book aims at giving such an account of the land 
 and people as will enable readers to understand and to sympathize with 
 the Finlanders in their present trouble. The author has had excep- 
 tional opportunities of becoming acquainted at first hand with the con- 
 stitutional issues in dispute, and in ' Finland and the Tsars ' English 
 readers will for the first time have an authentic account of the origin 
 and significance of the last stand for liberty under the Russian Crown.
 
 IN MOORISH CAPTIVITY: 
 
 Bn account of tbe ' tourmaline ' jEjpeoitfon to Sue, 
 
 1897-1898. 
 By HENRY M. GREY, 
 
 A Member ok the Expedition. 
 
 One vol., demy 8m, Illustrated, \ds. 
 
 The author's ' hundred days in Morocco ' formed probably as 
 unpleasant an experience as has ever fallen to the lot of an Englishman. 
 Trading in arms and ammunition with the subjects of a foreign 
 potentate against his will is no sinecure, even if the potentate be only 
 Sultan of Morocco. Deprived of the countenance of the British 
 Government, the Tourmaline Expedition was unfortunate from the first. 
 Mr. Grey graphically narrates the incidents of the voyage, the landing at 
 Sus, and the treachery of the natives. Then followed the separation of 
 the party by the Moorish cruiser Hassani, the author's capture and 
 miserable march overland to Mogador, often in chains and subjected all 
 the time to the grossest indignities. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Chap. I. An Ill-omened Start. — II. Across the Bay. — III. Island Nights' 
 Entertainment.— IV. Dangerous Delay. — V. Arksis. — VI. The Indaba. — 
 VII. The Council of the Forty. — VIII. Damp Days. — IX. Treachery at 
 Work.— X. Naval Manoeuvres.— XI. El Arabi to the Rescue.— XII. Attack 
 on the Camp. — XIII. In the House of the Wolf. — XIV. El Arabi comes 
 Ashore again. — XV. Before the Kaid. — XVI. The Beginning of the Raid. 
 —XVII. Camp at Tlata.— XVIII. Giluli's Vow.— XIX. On the Road 
 Northward.— XX. Still Northward.— XXI. Tisnit — XXII. Good-bye to 
 Giluli. — XXIII. Across the Border. — XXIV. An Unwelcome Invitation. — 
 XXV. and XXVI. Life in the Kasbah.— XXVII. News at Last.— 
 XXVIII. Delivered up. 
 
 ENGLAND IN EGYPT. 
 
 By SIR ALFRED MILNER, G.C.M.G., 
 
 Governor of the Cape Colony. 
 
 With an additional chapter, bringing down the work to the end of 1898, 
 By CLINTON E. DAWKINS, 
 
 Late Financial Secretary to the Khedive, Financial Member of the 
 Indian Council, etc. 
 
 Sixth Edition, revised, with Maps, 6s.
 
 BRITISH MERCHANT SEAMEN IN 
 SAN FRANCISCO. 
 
 By the REV. JAMES FELL. 
 
 Crown Svo., doth, 3s. 6d. 
 
 The author spent five years in San Francisco engaged in work 
 connected with the Mission to Seamen, and during that period became 
 thoroughly conversant at first hand with the dangers and difficulties that 
 beset our sailors on the Pacific ports. His account of their troubles is 
 extremely interesting, and written with a moderation that carries con- 
 viction. 
 
 Summary of Contents. 
 
 San Francisco — The Bay — Discontent — Food — Ship's Tailors — 
 Pocket Money — Crimping — Running Men Out — Allotment Notes- 
 Paying off — Apprentices and Desertion —The Seamen's Institute — Sickness 
 at Sea. 
 
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 SHIPPING AND CRAFT 
 
 ALL ROUND THE WORLD. 
 By R. T. PRITCHETT, 
 
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 With more than Fifty full-page Illustrations from Sketches by the 
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 ANIMAL LIFE AND INTELLIGENCE. 
 
 By C. LLOYD MORGAN, F.R.S., 
 
 Principal of University College, Bristol ; Author of ' Hauit and Instinct,' etc. 
 
 A New Edition, entirely revised and largely rewritten, one vol., octavo. 
 
 In revising this work the author, besides bringing the discussion as 
 far as possible abreast of the most recent work and thought on the 
 subject with which it deals, introduces the results of his own later 
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 ENGLISH POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: 
 
 an Bjposftfon ano Criticism of tbe Sgstems of Ibobbes, Xocke, 3Bucfee, 
 aBentbam, /iftill ano /ifeaine. 
 
 By WILLIAM GRAHAM, M.A., 
 
 Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at Queen's College, Belfast. 
 
 One vol., octavo, \2S. net 
 
 ESSENTIALS IN RELIGION: 
 
 ffleh\a> Sermons Delivered in Canterbury Catbeoral. 
 
 By the REV. F. J. HOLLAND, 
 
 Canon of Canterbury. 
 
 Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 I. Essentials and Non-essentials.— II. The Ever-blessed Trinity.- 
 III. Faith which worketh by Love. — IV. The Divine Sacraments.- 
 V. The Foundation of the Church. — VI. The Organization of the Church.
 
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 THE COLOSSUS. 
 
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 A WINTER IN BERLIN. 
 
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 POEMS OF GEORGE CRABBE. 
 
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 POEMS AND SONGS OF DEGREES. 
 
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 Q'S TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. 
 
 By A. J. QUILLER COUCH (< Q '), 
 
 Author of ' Dead Man's Rock,' etc. 
 
 One vol., crown &vo., 6 s. 
 
 It is hoped that this volume, which has been unfortunately delayed, 
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 REALLY AND TRULY! 
 
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 Written by ERNEST AMES, and Illustrated by Mrs. ERNEST AMES. 
 
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 Baby,' which was so successful last year. Enlarged experience has 
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 The rhymes and pictures deal each with some striking event of the 
 century, from a comic standpoint. 
 
 A MORAL ALPHABET, 
 
 3n lillloros of from ©ne to Seven Syllables. 
 By H. B. and B. T. B., 
 
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 RUTHLESS RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS 
 
 HOMES. 
 
 The Verses by COLONEL D. STREAMER ; the Pictures by 
 G H . 
 
 One vol., oblong crown ^to. , $s. 6d. 
 
 This volume, which is dedicated by permission to Mrs. W. H. 
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 CONVERSATIONAL OPENINGS AND 
 ENDINGS. 
 
 Some Ibints for flMaglng tbc (Barne of Small Galfe and otber Society 
 
 pastimes. 
 
 By Mrs. HUGH BELL. 
 
 Square Svo., with Cover designed by Mrs. Ames, 2s. 6d. 
 
 This little book was printed as a pamphlet some >ears ago, and the 
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 PARIS: 
 
 B •flblstorg of tbe Cite from tbe BarltcsS <Limce to tbe present S>ap. 
 By HILAIRE BELLOC, 
 
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 One vol., Illustrated.
 
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 WILD FLOWERS FROM PALESTINE. 
 
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 THE TREATISES OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 
 ON METAL WORK AND SCULPTURE. 
 
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 BUNYAN'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. 
 
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 ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH 
 CENTURY. 
 
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 ' The Art of War in the Middle Ages,' etc. 
 
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 THE STORY OF ENGLAND. 
 
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 J 3 
 
 A SERIES OF LOCAL HISTORIES. 
 
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 THE STORY OF LONDON. 
 THE STORY OF THE MIDLANDS. 
 THE STORY OF WALES. 
 THE STORY OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 THE STORY OF LANCASHIRE. 
 THE STORY OF YORKSHIRE. 
 THE STORY OF THE WEST COUNTRY, 
 [In the Press. 
 
 AFRICA, AS SEEN BY ITS EXPLORERS. 
 
 Edited by E. J. WEBB, M.A. 
 
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 PICTURES OF GEOGRAPHICAL SUBJECTS. 
 
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 Portsmouth Harbour. 
 
 The Land's End, Cornwall. 
 
 Mont Blanc. 
 
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 Mount Vesuvius. 
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 Hong Kong. 
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 »4 
 
 LECTURES ON THEORETICAL AND 
 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. 
 
 PART L — CHEMICAL DYNAMICS. 
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 Professor at the University of Berlin. 
 
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 A MANUAL OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. 
 
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 A MANUAL OF PHYSIOGRAPHY. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES. 
 
 Alexander. RECOLLECTIONS OF A HIGHLAND SUBALTERN, 
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 Lord Clyde, in 1857-1859. By Lieutenant-Colonel W. Gordon Alexander. 
 Illustrations and Maps. Demy 8vo., cloth, 16s. 
 
 Arnold. PASSAGES IN A WANDERING LIFE. By Thomas 
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 THE SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY. 
 
 Edited by the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P. 
 
 A Re-issue, in handsome volumes, of certain rare and entertaining books on 
 Sport, carefully selected by the Editor, and Illustrated by the best 
 Sporting Artists of the day, and with Reproductions of old Plates. 
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 Volume I. 
 
 Smith. THE LIFE OF A FOX, AND THE DIARY OF A HUNTS- 
 MAN. By Thomas Smith, Master of the Hambledon and Pytchley Hounds. 
 With Illustrations by the Author, and Coloured Plates by G. H. Jalland. 
 
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 of the hounds which it brings to relieve the winter of our discontent amid London fogs.' — Pall 
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 Volume II. 
 
 Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN 
 PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS 
 OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. Thornton, of Thornville Royal, in 
 Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by Garrard, and other Illustrations 
 and Coloured Plates by G. E. Lodge. 
 
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 Cosmopolite. THE SPORTSMAN IN IRELAND. By a Cosmopolite. 
 With Coloured Plates and Black and White Drawings by P. Chenevix Trench, 
 and reproductions of the original Illustrations drawn by R. Allen, and engraved 
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 Volume IV. 
 
 Berkeley. REMINISCENCES OF A HUNTSMAN. By the Hon. 
 Grantley F. Berkeley. With a Coloured Frontispiece and the original 
 Illustrations by John Leech, and several Coloured Plates and other Illustrations 
 by G. H. Jalland. 
 
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 ' The Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley had one great quality of the raconteur. His self-revelations 
 and displays of vanity are delightful.' — Times.
 
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 Volume V. 
 
 Scrope. THE ART OF DEERSTALKING. By William Scrope. 
 With Frontispiece by Edwin Landseer, and nine Photogravure Plates of the 
 original Illustrations. 
 
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 With a Photogravure Portrait of the Author by D. Maclise, R.A., and with 
 Coloured Photogravure and other Plates from the original Illustrations by 
 ALKEN, and several reproductions of old Portraits. 
 
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