GREAT RALEGH
BY
HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
New York: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
London: METHUEN & CO.
1908
| TO |
| MURIEL LEE MATHEWS |
| High Cross |
PREFACE
This book has been written for the general reader.Caveat scholasticus. My aim has been to makethe character of Ralegh live again, and to draw a pictureof the times in as lively a manner as I see it. Englandin Elizabeth's maturity touched greatness; in Elizabeth'sold age and during the reign of King James, Englanddeclined. Ralegh embodied the greatest qualities of thegreat days, and survived to carry on the Elizabethantradition when the great Elizabethans had passed away.
The books to which reference has been made aretoo many to need mention in a book of this kind:dramatists, poets, pamphleteers, memoirists have beenfreely pillaged. But I should like to acknowledge heremy extreme indebtedness to the works of Major MartinHume, Mr. T. N. Brushfield, and the late Mr. EdwardEdwards, and to thank again Miss Janet Wheeler forher kind help, notably in that arduous task—the makingof an Index.
H. de S.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| BIRTH | PAGE |
| The spread of news—Birth—Influence of birthplace—Hisfather—His mother | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| EARLY DAYS | |
| His early going to Oxford—Old Ascham on quick wit andeducation—Life at a University—The Queen at Oxford—Tothe wars in France—Henry Champernoun—Storiesof the wars | 11 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| TOWARDS MANHOOD | |
| Friendship with George Gascoyne—Its importance—Raleghin London—The arch-gossip Aubrey—ElizabethanLondon—Ralegh and Sir Humfrey Gilbert—The beginningof the great enterprise | 21 |
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