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“Major Hume has thrown the most curious and valuable light on the Armada period. Full of delightful sketches of men and things.”—W. L. Courtney in The Daily Telegraph.
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SIR WALTER RALEGH
Being Vol. I. of the series entitled “Builders of Greater Britain,” each vol. with photogravure frontispiece and map.
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“There is not a dull page in it, and, with his skilful telling of it, the story of Raleigh's life and of his times reads like a romance.”—Pall Mall Gazette.