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As To Criticism Of Other Historians, Mr. Henderson Gives It

exceeding abundantly, and often with great acuteness. But he has so much criticism at his disposal that he bestows it freely on " episodes " which are by no means "main......

Woman," As In Mr. Froude's Theory. She " Had Excellent

gifts and graces characteristics that were generous and noble," while " her imperfections and mistakes become dwarfed into insignificance as the determining causes of her......

And, As Mr. Henderson Shows, Her Uncle The Cardinal, Broke

down her long caution and self-control, while Darnley mad- dened her, and she was besotted with her only passionate love, the love of Bothwell. The rest was expiation. Except,......

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 *......

Henderson Might Have Quoted The Full And Rather Critical...

of the child by her maternal grandmother. In essentials it serves for her looks till, about 1582, she became fat and "flat-faced with a double chin," as Wingfield describes her......

Slaves. In Scotland (1561-1565) She Bore With Almost In-...

patience the daily insults to herself through her religion : she suffered, she fainted, she was often in great bodily pain, but she kept her temper to a miracle. On the other......

T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, London.

Littrarp isuppirmatt. LONDON : DECEMBER 2nd, 1905. BOOKS. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.* "My explanation for seeking to add to the numerous works on Mary Stuart may be stated in a......