But this is not the place for a critical examination of the following pages. The conflicting statements and opinions respecting the closing scene of Drake’s eventful life, are amply detailed in Mr. Barrow’s justly popular volume. Here it will be sufficient to observe that Maynarde’s keen and natural comments on his commanders, proceed from one who, in regard to Drake, certainly writes in a friendly spirit, and from whom the truth was wrung by the circumstances of his situation.
W. D. C.
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
HIS VOYAGE,
1595:
BY
THOMAS MAYNARDE.