1928. A collection of nine lectures delivered by Froude at Oxford in the Easter Terms of 1893-4. They are pictures of the period to which the studies of his best years had been directed, with some of his last thoughts on the English Reformation, and on that Sea Cradle which was to be the cradle also of England_s greatness in subsequent centuries. Contents: The Sea Cradle of Reformation; John Hawkins and the African Slave Trade; Sir John Hawkins and Philip the Second; Drake_s Voyage Round the World; Parties in the State; The Great Expedition to the West Indies; Attack on Cadiz; Sailing of the Armada; and Defeat of the Armada.