Cabot Bibliography. By George Parker Winship. (H. Stevens, Son, and
Stiles. 18s. net.)—Mr. Winship has prefixed to his bibliography an essay on the lives and doings of the two Cabots. John Cabot, a Genoese by birth, but by adoption an Englishman, sailed from Bristol in May, 1497, in the ' Matthew,' touched American land somewhere to the north of Halifax, and got back to Bristol by August 6th. A second expedition, on an important scale, started in the spring of the following year. One of the five vessels composing it was damaged by a storm and came back. What happened to the others no one knows. Sebastian, son of John, started for Cathay via the North Pole in 1508. He returned in the following year. He made other attempts, successful and unsuccessful, which there is no need to follow. It suffices to say that his life is full of interest and has been the subject of no little controversy. The bibliography occupies a hundred and eighty pages and contains three times as many items.
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