MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. 

 We are glad to see that the reprint of Hakluyt, which Messrs. MacLehose 

 have begun to publish, has been so successful that they are emboldened 

 to enlarge the scope of their venture— all the gladder, indeed, because 

 for years this column has been demanding such a reprint, and maintaining 

 that the public wanted it. The enterprising publishers now announce 

 that they propose to supplement their Hakluyt with a reprint of Parch* 

 His Pilgrimes, which the author further describes as Hakluytus Posthumus, in 

 recognition of the debt which he owed to Richard Hakluyt for the 

 legacy of some unpublished manuscripts. Those who have cultivated a 

 taste for the delightful and bracing narratives in which our Elizabethan 

 travellers described their wanderings at a time when the world was far 

 larger and more wonderful than it is in these days of steamships and 

 electric wires, will probably feel that the twenty volumes in which 

 Purchas is to be reprinted will go very nicely on their shelves beside 

 the twelve volumes of Hakluyt. 



THE SCOTSMAN. 

 The " Voyages " are in themselves a library of mediaeval and Eliza- 

 bethan travel by land and by sea ; they have also been a mine of 

 literature and romance. Their value and interest cannot well be exag- 

 gerated, and grow rather than decline with years, and it is gratifying to 

 see them brought before the reading public in so worthy and acceptable 



a form. 



THE ACADEMY. 



To publish the great chronicle of England's greatest adventures 

 in a form so excellent, is nothing less than a national service. 



SATURDAY REVIEW. 

 Such an amazing union of Trade and Faith and Romance never 

 was seen in England before or since— yes, Faith must be included. 

 Did not Hawkins in the midst of his slave traffic on a storm arising 

 declare with fervour that the Almighty would not suffer his elect 

 to perish? And even his enemies have not questioned the piety 

 of Drake. Hawkins, the Achines of Philip of Spain, and Drake, 

 and Grenville— who perhaps has been praised a little too high- 

 are the chief names that have come down to us, but every port 

 had its sea dogs ; and if we enter into the spirit of empire we 

 simply must love their deeds and daring. Historians, with one or 

 two exceptions, have never entered into the spirit of the thing. 

 The careful punctilious statesmanship of their own day, too, looked 

 at them askance, and turned away from their bullion and silver bars ; 

 and to this day there are sticklers who talk of Drake's wicked piracy, 

 and who would arraign Hawkins— without whose foresight in the 

 dockyards the Armada might not have ended as it did. 



DAILY MAIL. 

 When complete, the volumes will form an inestimable treasure, 

 without which the student of our national history will scarcely rest 

 content. To the historian the work is indispensable. 



