verdict as the more critical.
As a specimen of the disproportionate dispensation of Mr. Henderson's criticisms this one must serve. Nothing in Mary's early married life as Queen of France can have been
* Mary Queen of Scots : a Biograpliy. By T. P. Henderson. 2 vols. London s Hutchinson and Co. Pe. net.] so much of a "main episode" and so exciting as the Tumult of Amboise, with the subsequent hangings and noyades wliTcli she is said to have witnessed. Mr. Henderson
does not mention the Tumult of Amboise. But he devotes more than a page (pp. 87-89) to the circumstance that "Dr. Fleming homologates a remarkabR) misreading" of
three lines in a letter of Mary's uncle th ) Cardinal, written when she was ten years old, and saying something about sa bouche. Dr. Hay Fleming appears to have misunderstood the lines, but the affair is hardly so important as the Tumult of Amboise !
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