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as by far the most important factor in solving the momentous New-World problems of that awakening age, so Drake was by far the most important factor in the English Navy. _The Worlde Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake_ and _Sir Francis Drake his Voyage_, 1595, are two of the volumes edited by the Hakluyt Society. But these contemporary accounts of his famous fights and voyages do not bring out the supreme significance of his influence as an admiral, more especially in connection with the Spanish Armada. It must always be a matter of keen, though unavailing, regret that Admiral Mahan, the great American expositor of sea power, began with the seventeenth, not the sixteenth, century. But what Mahan left undone was afterwards done to admiration by Julian Corbett, Lecturer in History to the (British) Naval War College, whose _Drake and the Tudor Navy_ (1912) is absolutely indispensable to any one who wishes to understand how England won her footing in America despite all that Spain could do to stop her. Corbett's _Drake_ (1890) in the 'English Men of Action' series is an excellent epitome. But the larger book is very much the better. Many illuminative documents on _The Defeat of the Spanish Armada_ were edited in 1894 by Corbett's predecessor, Sir John Laughton. The only other work that need be consulted is the first volume of _The Royal Navy: a History_, edited by Sir William Laird Clowes (1897). This is not so good an authority as Corbett; but it contains many details which help to round the story out, besides a wealth of illustration. RALEIGH. Gilbert, Cavendish, Raleigh, and the other gentlemen-adventurers, were soldiers, not sailors; and if they had gone afloat two centuries later they would have fought at the head of marines, not of blue-jackets; so their lives belong to a different kind of biography from that concerned with Hawkins, Frobisher. and Drake. Edwards's _Life of Sir Walter Raleigh_ (1868) contains all the most interesting letters and is a competent work of its own kind. Oldys' edition of Raleigh's _Works_ still holds the field though its eight volumes were published so long ago as 1829. Raleigh's _Discovery of Guiana_ is the favorite for reprinting. The Hakluyt Society has produced an elaborate edition (1847) while a very cheap and handy one has been published in Cassell's National Library. W.G. Gosling's _Life of Sir Humphry Gilbert_ (1911) is the best recent work of its kind. The likeliest of all the Hakl
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