LETTER FROM EARL ROBERTS TO LORD STANLEY REGARDING "THE FRIEND."
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I The Birth of "The Friend"
CHAPTER II Its Infancy
CHAPTER III We Publish a "Curio" Number
CHAPTER IV We Begin To Feel at Home
CHAPTER V Treating of Many Peoples
CHAPTER VI Ours was no Bed of Roses
CHAPTER VII Rudyard Kipling, Associate Editor
CHAPTER VIII Lord Roberts's Headquarters
CHAPTER IX "Oh, How Good it Was!"
CHAPTER X I Visit Miss Bloemfontein
CHAPTER XI Our Very Mixed Public
CHAPTER XII "Vive la Compagnie"
CHAPTER XIII We Leave "The Friend" to See a Fight
CHAPTER XIV My Horse Offered For Sale
CHAPTER XV General Pole-Carew in War
CHAPTER XVI Our Loss and the Army's
CHAPTER XVII The Censor As an Editor
CHAPTER XVIII Our Christening Competition
CHAPTER XIX Fooled by the Boers
CHAPTER XX Dr. A. Conan Doyle Contributes
CHAPTER XXI Loot and Lurid Crazes
CHAPTER XXII In the Shadow of Sanna's Post
CHAPTER XXIII A Complete Newspaper
CHAPTER XXIV False Hearts around us
CHAPTER XXV The End Approaches
CHAPTER XXVI Wanted, a Millionaire
CHAPTER XXVII A Notable Number
CHAPTER XXVIII Our "Friend" no Longer
CHAPTER XXIX Adieu to "The Friend"
INDEX
Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson's List of Announcements
Notes
Badge specially made for the Editors of The Friend.
Julian Ralph. Perceval Landon.
H. A. Gwynne. Rudyard Kipling.
The editors at Work.
Photographed by H. Mackern, of "Scribner's Magazine."
War's Brighter Side
THE STORY OF THE FRIEND NEWSPAPER
EDITED BY THE CORRESPONDENTS
WITH LORD ROBERTS'S FORCES,
MARCH-APRIL, 1900 + + + +
By
JULIAN RALPH
(One of the Editors of "The Friend")
Author of "Towards Pretoria," "At Pretoria," "Alone in China," etc., etc.
WITH 15 ILLUSTRATIONS
London
C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd.
Henrietta Street
1901
[The coloured reproductions on the cover
of this book are fac-similes of a
badge specially made for the Editors
of The Friend.]
WITH HIS KIND PERMISSION
THIS HISTORY OF HIS
UNIQUE AND HISTORIC
EXPERIMENT IN PUBLISHING A NEWSPAPER
FOR AN ARMY IN THE FIELD
IS DEDICATED TO
FIELD MARSHAL, EARL ROBERTS, V.C., K.G., K.P., Etc.
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
