Out with the Old Voyagers. By Horace G. Groser. (Andrew
Melrose.)—Mr. Groser gives us an introductory chapter on early maritime discovery, telling briefly the story of Phcenician, Phocasan, and Roman voyagers, with a notice of Arab (Sindbad was not wholly a fiction), Norse, and other adventurers of more recent times. His first paper is devoted to Prince Henry the Navigator, a well-deserved compliment to the father of modern discovery. Vasco de Gama, Columbus, Magellan, John Cabot and his son Sebastian, Frobisher, Hawkins, Drake,—who, when he was laden with the spoils of Spanish-America, did not forget the problem of the North-West Passage,—John Davis, Sir James Lancaster, a less known navigator, who, however, did much to found the trade to the East Indies, Barents, and Henry Hudson, are the heroes of whom Mr. Groser writes in this excellent volume. "How you English leave your dead about the world," is a saying which is appropriately quoted in the last chapter. It is more honourable than the Horatian " Quae caret ora cruore nostro " The papers have appeared in a periodical noticed elsewhere, Young England.
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