THE TIMES. 

 The taste for romantic adventure, ever strong in the Anglo-Saxon 

 temperament, found ample aliment for all its needs in the new craving 

 for that untravelled world whose margin was for ever fading before the 

 eyes of the explorer. The new fangled globes proved more than half 

 the round world to be a real terra incognita, full of chances of hard 

 fighting and good services, beauteous damsels, and gold and precious 

 stones. And the way to these enchanting scenes lay not, as of old, 

 through a long and footsore pilgrimage, but across the free and boundless 

 ocean, the natural heritage of Englishmen since the sea-rovers first came 

 into the channel, but one to which the Spaniard and the Portuguese had 

 laid so unwarrantable and — as the event showed — so insupportable a 

 claim. Yet — and it is Hakluyt's greatest service to keep us constantly in 

 mind of the fact — there was ever mingled with the thirst for gold a large 

 share of the true adventurous spirit which makes our men dare and die 

 for the meed of fame and not illusive honour. Our seamen went forth 

 to beard the Spaniard and outface the Kings of wizard isles, the 

 11 Anthropophagi and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders," 

 partly in the hope of temporal gain, but at least as much in Hakluyt's 

 own hope of doing good service to the Queen and the Commonwealth. 



JTHENJEUM. 

 We are glad to observe that, when Hakluyt is printed, an edition 

 of Purchas is to follow. This announcement, and the care with 

 which these volumes have been produced, are to us the best evidence 

 that their publishers will neglect nothing to secure completeness. 

 We cordially congratulate all concerned on the appearance of these 

 noble volumes — a worthy monument of the foundation of the sea 

 power of England. 



THE SPECTATOR. 



It is a strange omission that this age, so rich in reprints, did not 

 give us the English voyages of Richard Hakluyt long ago. For not 

 only is this great work a vast storehouse of noble English and brave 

 adventure, it is a panegyric of English courage and English enterprise. 

 However, at last the reprint is made, and if you would know how 

 Britain established her Empire upon the sea, the splendid record is 

 easily and pleasantly accessible. The voyages collected by Hakluyt 

 are strangely uniform in style. They possess a large pomp and stateli- 

 ness, which are characteristic of Elizabethan prose as well as of 

 Elizabethan verse. Even the instructions to the pursers are com- 

 posed with a keen sense of sound and effect. " And principally see," 

 thus it was written in 1556, "that you forget not dayly in all the 

 voiage both morning and evening, to call the company within boord 

 to prayer, in which doing you shall please God, and the voiage 

 will have the better successe thereby, and the company prosper the 

 better." 



