IN a fortnightly series of six talks, the well-known historian will deal briefly with the lives of six great Englishmen. The first talk this afternoon covers the life of the Elizabethan seaman who is the first on the roll of our famous admirals. Drake has been called hard names* pirate,' ' buccaneer,' even, by the Spaniards, ' the dragon of the Apocalypse.' But whatever his failings, he was a fine seaman and a splendid fighting man, worthy of his place at the head of the long list of hard-fisted, grim, and often ruthless captains who kept the mastery of the Narrow Seas at home, and carried the flag of St. George round the oceans of the world.