Shakespeare And The Makers Of Virginia Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Makers of Virginia Virginian history. F oranthentic information as to the proceedings of the Virginia Company during the eventful eighteen years of its chartered life, divided into the Guelf and Ghibelline periods of the Thomas Smith and the sandys-southampton regimes, the historical student will turn to the Records of the Company, sumptuously edited from the Manuscript in the Library of Congress, which they had reached by a strange Odyssey, after being transcribed in just apprehension of the danger menacing them by the far-sighted care of Nicholas Ferrar; the Ferrar papers at Magdalene College, Cambridge; and the Manchester papers in the Public Record Office. Miss Kingsbury's monumental edition is prefaced by Professor Osgood, whose own American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century may claim to be considered a standard work in the entire subject of which my address to-night only touches a section while Mr. Newton's admirably written Colonising Activities of the English Puritans treats its final phase (the history of the Providence Company). On the other hand, Professor W. R. Scott's remarkable work on British Joint Stock Companies, though ranging over a far wider field than we have at present in contemplation, and conducting an exceedingly complex inquiry with close attention to the varying conditions of its several parts, discusses that section of it which concerns the Virginia Company with masterly conciseness, and may serve as a welcome guide through more discursive methods of treatment. As to the general bearing of this chapter of colonial upon the progress of English political life in general, Gardiner's standard work, to which I like to appeal in these walls, and which has just undergone the test of a searching critical estimate from an able American pen, is not likely to be left neglected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.