+R. of Rs. 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 60w.

Walling, Robert A. J. Sea-dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins. **$1.75. Lane.

A popular biography of Hawkins which “vindicates the hero from the charge of having inaugurated the British slave trade.”


“We are bound to say that it is not a biography in the received sense of the word; that it is not the first; and that it is a poor réchauffé of uncritical stuff.”

Ath. 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 180w.

“Mr. Walling’s book is a good, an interesting, and a useful piece of work.”

+Dial. 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 300w.

“While it can hardly be called exhaustive, it is certainly readable and animated.”

+Outlook. 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 190w.