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NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

No. CLXIX.

OCTOBER, 1855.

ART. I. Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth. Rendered into Modern English by CHARLES KINGSLEY. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1855.

Ir is the merest commonplace to say that the Reverend Charles Kingsley is, in many respects, a remarkable man. Of aristocratic connections, he is thoroughly democratic in his tendencies and opinions. A clergyman of the Church of England, he maintains a liberal creed. Conservative by education, he is a radical reformer. As a writer, he is well known to be an indefatigable worker, expressing his thoughts in pure and Saxon diction, with a compact and forcible style, and exhibiting a wonderfully versatile genius. Four or five works of fiction, a volume of sermons, and a book of poems, already before the public, bear witness at once to his ability and his industry. Besides these, several papers in leading English reviews, of a rare historical and scientific value, are attributed to his prolific pen. Each of these productions has a character different from all the others, unless we except the first two works which gave their author an American, as well as an English, reputation. "Alton Locke" and "Yeast" are attempts to present the social problems of English life. NO. 169.

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"Hypatia" reproduces the scenes of the struggle between the outgoing Heathenism and the incoming Christianity of the fifth century. "Westward Ho!" gives "Westward Ho!" gives a lively picture of those remarkable events in the reign of Elizabeth, which were the germ of the future maritime supremacy of Great Britain. The "Village Sermons" are plain, simple, practical discourses, with a fresh and healthy tone, not infrequently exhibiting the characteristics of free and bold thought. The "Poems" bear evident tokens, that their reverend author is no less at home in the higher walks of imaginative literature than on the lower plane of prose.

The work now before us we regard as the best of the author's performances, in the line of fictitious literature; for while objections may be brought against his other compositions, on the score of a too denunciatory spirit, and perhaps of historical inaccuracy, "Westward Ho!" is deserving of the highest commendation for the vigor of its delineations of character, the vivacity of its narrative and description, and the general correctness of its historical statements. It is evidently the result of a careful and thorough study of the times which it attempts to portray. It is a difficult matter, we are aware, to bring upon the stage of fiction personages who have really lived in history, and about whose proper position there has been much discussion, and still to preserve the peculiarities of each so as to present them truthfully to the reader. Yet Mr. Kingsley has completely succeeded in this respect, and if the sober truth about them is sometimes too highly colored, the men themselves appear before us scarcely different from what they really were. Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh, the lion-hearted Richard Grenville, look out upon us from the pages of the book, as they must have seemed to their contemporaries, and we feel as though we were reading a chronicle of real occurrences, rather than a fictitious story.

A brief examination of the work itself shall serve us for a preface to a consideration of the character of the period and the events which have contributed so essentially to make up the sum of subsequent history.

Amyas Leigh is the name adopted for a gentleman advenventurer of North Devonshire, who takes a prominent part in