14 MARCH 1903, Page 23

Voyages and Travels, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century. By C. R.

Beazley. (Constable and Co. 9s.)—Mr. Beazley has collected into two volumes the wonderful Elizabethan sea pamphlets originally published in Mr. Arber's "English Garner." The result is of extraordinary interest, for not only did the sailors of Hawkins and Drake go through unheard-of adventures, but their literary power was capable of describing them. Those, however, who have come under the magic of the stories of the Elizabethan seamen as told by Froude will find that the exploits of Drake and Hawkins, as originally set forth, gain in picturesqueness and vigour.