3 MAY 1890, Page 24

Mary Queen of Scots. By an Elder of the Church

of Scotland. Stock.)—The authorship of this book is perhaps as remarkable as anything else about it. Mary has never wanted defenders among those born north of the Tweed. But she has not often found them, we fancy, among the elders of a Church which she did not love, and which certainly did not love her. " A pure woman, a faithful wife, a Sovereign enlightened beyond the Tutors [sic] of her age,"—this is the " Elder's " summary of the character of the heroine of the Kirk o' Field and Bothwell's -abduction, and is anyhow " thorough."