25 MARCH 1905, page 17

Sydney Smith The Edinburgh Reviewer Could Have Found No More

appreciative biographer than Mr. George Russell, the last of the Whigs ; and Sydney Smith the wit could have found no more faithful chronicler than the author of Collec- tions......

Samuel Purchas.*

SAMUEL PURCHAS is in most respects inferior to Hakluyt, whose name he usurped, and whose papers he inherited. He had neither the lofty style nor the epic touch which......