Volume 1

Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England / edited by Edward Arber.

  • John Smith
Date:
1910
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Credit: Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England / edited by Edward Arber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sincerity of his narrative, and even of the substantial correctness of the Pocahontas episode, in Professor Arber, in his edition of Smith’s Writings, and also in his elaborate memoir of Smith, in the twenty-second volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica; in Mr William Wirt Henry, an eloquent champion of the Powhatan story, in his Address to the Virginia Historical Society, of February 1882; in Mr John Ashton, who published a recueil of Smith's Adventures and Discourses in 1883 ; in Mr Wyndham Robertson’s not perhaps entirely impartial researches into the credibility of his heroine’s achievement, in Pocahontas and her Descendants, 1887; in J. Poindexter’s Captain John Smith and his Critics of 1893; in John Fiske’s Old Virginia and her Neighbours (2 vols. 1897); in the numerous papers and essays dealing with the tercentenary of the founding of Virginia in Scribner's and other American magazines during 1907-8 ; and in Mr A. G. Bradley’s monograph on Captain John Smith, in the English Men of Action Series, of 1905. Less critical presentations of the exploits of Captain John Smith, based for the most part upon his own True Travels and General History, have appeared as follows:—The Life and Extra¬ ordinary Adventures of Captain John Smith, by J. Bilknap [1820] ; A Life of Captain John Smith, by G. S. Hillard (in Sparks’s Library of American Biography), 1834; Captain John Smith, by W. Gilmore Simms, New York, 1846 ; John Smith of Virginia, by George C. Hill, New York, 1858 ; The True Story of John Smith, by Katharine Pearson Woods (with portraits), London, 1901 ; The Adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of Two Hundred and Fifty Horse, and Sometime President of Virginia, by E. P. Roberts (with illustra¬ tions and maps, based directly upon the 2 vol. issue of this reprint in 1884), London, 1902 ; Captain John Smith (an attempt to retell the story), New York, 1904. T. SL
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