An Unrequited .Royalist. By Marie Hay. (J. K. Bumpus. Ss
6d. net.)—The "unrequited Royalist" is the person commonly known as the Marquis of Worcester (d. 1667). He is known as an inventive genius, and is numbered among the pioneers of steam power. The service which is recorded in this volume is the negotiation with the Irish Bomanists. He had, there is no doubt, the express authority of the King to buy the help of an Irish army with the consideration of liberty for Roman Catholics. This authority Charles disavowed. Lord Glamorgan (as he then was) was not wise—the events of 1641 had greatly prejudiced the scheme—and the Papal Nuncio by his impossible conditions, as, e.g., that the Lord-Lieutenant was to be a Roman Catholic, ruined any chance that remained; but for Charles's perfidy there is nothing to be said. Readers of" John Inglesant " will remember how powerfully the story of these negotiations is told in that noveL
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