After Robinson Crusoe, there are no works more enchaining to
the youthful mind, and which tend more to foster our national spirit for the sea, than the narratives of the voyages and adven- tures of the old navigators, ere science and experience had robbed Cape Horn of its terrors, and rendered a circumnavigation an
every-day exploit. Of these books, the discoveries of COOK may rightly rank in the first line, if they do not occupy the foremost place ; and the Reverend G. You NO'S Life and Voyages of Cap- tain Cook, though homely and literal enough, with a disposition to " much pondering " on obvious matters, will, from its plainness and closeness, be found an interesting volume to those who are not over critical. Tice author has also thrown some new light upon the early life of Coox, from inquiries in the neighbourhood of his birth-place, and communication with such of his contempo- raries as were living at the time.
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