Excerpt from The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake, Vol. 2 of 2

AS we pass from the life story Of Sir Francis Drake, the Par liamentarian baronet, to that of his nephew and heir, Francis, only surviving son Of Major Thomas Drake, we feel at first as though we were quitting old friends for the society Of new and less interesting companions. The scene is the same, but we hardly notice it, so disconcerting is the almost complete change of persons who now occupy the foreground. Many who have lately engaged our attention henceforth disappear we may hear of them indirectly sometimes, but their doings have no further bearing on our story. Others, who have been waiting for notice, press forwards for a little while, then they also pass away and make place for an advancing younger generation, different in many ways from the preceding ones, born in more peaceful times - but not, for that reason, less worthy of commemoration in our family history. By degrees, too, as we proceed, and the old order of individuals changes, laws and customs likewise alter, slowly but surely bettering the condition Of people in almost every rank of life.

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