CONTENT S. PAGE Ibid, 3 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS IN LOCHLEVEN CASTLE. Abbot, 1 17 Ibid, PRIVY COUNCIL. Ibid, Waverley, 95 Ibid, 105 Ibid, 121 CLYDE. 146 SENTENCE AND DEATH OF FERGUS MAC-IVOR. Ibid, READINGS FOR THE YOUNG. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS IN LOCHLEVEN CASTLE. HER face, her form, have been so deeply impressed upon the imagination, that even at the distance of nearly three centuries, it is unnecessary to remind the most ignorant and uninformed reader of the striking traits which characterize that remarkable countenance, which seems at once to combine our ideas of the majestic, the pleasing, and the brilliant, leaving us to doubt whether they express most happily the queen, the beauty, or the accomplished woman. Who is there, that, at the very mention of Mary Stuart's name, has not her countenance before him, familiar as that of the mistress of his youth, or the favourite daughter of his advanced age? Even those who feel themselves compelled to believe all, or much, of what her enemies laid to her charge, cannot think without a sigh upon a countenance expressive of any thing rather than the foul crimes with which she was charged VOL. II. A |