Mary Queen of Scots at Langsals, 1568. By L. M.
Mann. (Glasgow : The City Librarian. 5a. net.)--Any book about Mau Queen of doote is interesting. Mr. Mann's book is a special study of her last battle and of her Right to England, illustrated with a view and a plan of the site, which is now partly a public park and partly a thriving suburb to the south of Glasgow. Mr. Mann thinks that the Queen had a larger fame than the Regent Murray, and that the issue was decided by Murray's hagbutters or snipers. It seems hardly credible that the Regent lost only four men out of four thousand, whereas over three hundred men of the Queen's army were killed. The book is published as a memento of an exhibition of historical relies held at the Langside Public Library, three hundred and fifty years after the battle. Among the exhibits was the casket from .Hamilton Palace whioh is said, on very doubtful authority, to have been the reposi- tory of Mary's incriminating "Casket Letters." Mr. Mann repro- duces what he regards as a portrait, hitherto unknown, of the Queen.
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