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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.*

"My explanation for seeking to add to the numerous works on Mary Stuart may be stated in a sentence." Thus opens the preface to Mr. T. F. Henderson's Mary Queen of Scots. "My explanation for seeking to add" may possibly be a grammatical, but it certainly is an uncouth, phrase. The explanation for "seeking to add" to the numerous books on