“This volume includes the contemporary accounts of the three most important Spanish explorations in the region now comprised in the southern part of the United States. These are Cabeza de Vaca’s narrative of his remarkable wanderings, the account of the expedition of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas, and Pedro de Castaneda’s narrative of the expedition of Coronado. Apart from the requirements of the series there was not the same necessity for the issuing of this particular volume as for the other two as two of these narratives already have been published in handy and inexpensive form under the competent editorship of Messers. Bourne and Winship respectively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
v. 4. Grant, William Lawson, ed. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604–1618.
7–22899.
This volume includes extracts from the writings of Champlain from which the student may construct a theory of the value of Champlain’s work as explorer and colonizer.
v. 5. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Narratives of early Virginia.
7–33220.
“Selections from the doughty John Smith fill about two-thirds of the volume; the remaining contents include narratives and letters by George Percy, Lord De-la-Ware, Dion Diego de Molina, Father Biard, John Ræfe, and John Pory. The period covered is that from the first settlement to the dissolution of the Company in 1624 by the aggrieved monarch.”—Dial.
“Most serviceable and in all ways to be welcomed is this volume. But it might have been made still more serviceable.” C. Raymond Beazley.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 654. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 1.) |