THE PERSECUTION OF MARY STEWART By Sir Edward Parry Sir
Edward Parry is an engaging and vigorous writer, and he has.found in The Persecution of Mary Stewart (Cassell, 21s.) a congenial subject. He tells the ever-fascinating story again in full detail, but he tells it as an impassioned advocate for the Queen. His book is avowedly "a story in criminology," and the criminals are Moray and the Scots Lords and Cecil—but not Queen Elizabeth. Mary herself was a sorely wronged young woman whom these criminals sought to dethrone. It is doebtleas hard to sympathize with the Scots lords of that Period—greedy, treacherous and cruel men in a revolutionary and intolerant age. But the very fervour of the author's
denunciation makes one Wonder whether Mary's adversaries were as black asEe paints them, and it is hardly credible that Mary, despite her youth, on which Sir Edward insists so oft en, was little more than a pawn in their hands. The book is worth reading, but this is not how history should be Written.
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