NOTES AND QUERIES. 

 The forthcoming issue, which will be in twelve 8vo volumes, will be 

 accompanied by Purchas His Pilgrimes, of which there is no modern 

 reprint, a work of excessive rarity, compiled in part from the materials 

 left by Hakluyt. Further particulars concerning this projected addition 

 will in time be supplied, and the work thus constituted must become the 

 authoritative and accepted form in which this great record of travel will 

 survive. . . . Nothing but praise is to be bestowed upon a work which in 

 inception and execution is equally admirable. No production of modern 

 times appeals more directly to the antiquary and the lover of England, 

 and of none shall we await with more sanguine and pleasurable anticipa- 

 tion the completion. 



MANCHESTER GUARD UN. 



Hakluyt's Principal Navigations is one of the greatest books in the 

 English language. The English Bible, Shakespeare, and the English 

 Liturgy rank in a class by themselves among the productions of the six- 

 teenth century, but next to them we may place Foxe's Acts and Monuments, 

 and Hakluyt's Navigations. Foxe is an epitome of the religious side of 

 Elizabethan England, Hakluyt is the epitome of its secular side. Foxe 

 is the epic of the birth of Protestant England, Hakluyt is the epic of the 

 birth of the British Empire, an epic not of fancy but of fact, an epic 

 containing narratives of adventures no less thrilling, and travels ten times 

 more extensive than those of Odysseus, with the additional advantages of 

 being not merely true, but responsible in fur measure for the present 

 political state of the world. . . . The book should go as a matter of 

 course into every public library in the empire, and those of us who value 

 our heritage and can afford to indulge our pride should have it for 

 ourselves. 



MORNING POST. 



Hakluyt s Voyages are well known. They are one of the classics 

 of English prose of the spacious days of Queen Elizabeth. And 

 allowing for our prejudice for things old, and therefore precious, 

 who is there at the present day who can write English prose like 

 the Elizabethans ? 



BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. 

 In Elizabeth's age the world was yet young, and the captains of 

 whom Hakluyt wrote were as reckless as schoolboys, yet brave as 

 heroes. They sailed wherever fortune led them, happy only if they 

 might set foot upon untrodden ground, or thwart the Spaniard. Yet 

 withal they displayed a barbaric taste for splendour. They loved 

 the courts of strange emperors as they loved the open sea. They 

 are never so happy as when they are describing the glitter of gold 

 and jewels ; but, on the other hand, they do not shrink from tragedy, 

 and it would be difficult to match the terror of Penguin Island, 

 as described in Cavendish's last voyage, elsewhere in literature. 



