Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected With the Regal Succession of Great Britain, Vol. 3
More books have been written about Mary Stuart than all the Queens in the world put together; but so greatly do they vary in their representations of her character, that at first it seems scarcely credible how any person could be so differently described. The outline is indeed the same, but, having been colored from opposite points of view, the features become angelic or demoni acal according to the disposition of the lights and shades. The triumph of a creed and a party has, on either side, been more considered than the development of facts, or those principles of moral justice which ought to animate the pen of the historian; and, after all the literary gladiatorship that has been exercised on this subject for nearly three centuries, the point of Mary's guilt or innocence remains undecided, and as much open to dis cussion as ever.
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