10 DECEMBER 1831, Page 20

The Fifth Number of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library—a work compiled

with care and judgment—contains the lives of three of our most famous naval adventurers, DRAKE, CAVENDISH, and DAMPIER. These biographies are well executed : the style is plain and intelligible, and the incidents are well selected. In the intro- ,duction, we perceive mention is made of CABOT'S Voyages, in a manner which shows that the writers of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library are still ignorant of a work in which former errors of theirs have been exposed: we mean Mr. BIDDLE'S Memoirs of Cabot.