1903. From the Preface: The only excuse that can be advanced for the production of a new book on Mary Stuart is that her supremely interesting personality has so frequently led her historians into the by-path of inquiry as to her virtue or vice, as to have obscured, to some extent, the reasons for her disastrous political failure; which, as it seems to me, did not spring from her goodness or badness as a woman, but from certain human weaknesses of character, quite compatible with general goodness and wisdom or with the reverse, but which fatally handicapped her as against antagonists who are less subject to such weakness.

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1903. From the Preface: The only excuse that can be advanced for the production of a new book on Mary Stuart is that her supremely interesting personality has so frequently led her historians into the by-path of inquiry as to her virtue or vice, as to have obscured, to some extent, the reasons for her disastrous political failure; which, as it seems to me, did not spring from her goodness or badness as a woman, but from certain human weaknesses of character, quite compatible with general goodness and wisdom or with the reverse, but which fatally handicapped her as against antagonists who are less subject to such weakness.

1901. Partial Contents: Change in the European situation caused by the defeat of the Armada; Intrigues of the Scottish Catholics with Spain; Appeal to Spain of the Irish Catholics; The condition of the Catholics in England; The conspiracy of Dr. Lopez; The complete separation of the two sections of English Catholics; Mission of Lindsay to Rome; Fears of a Spanish invasion of England; The two sections of English Catholics and the succession; Letters of John Colville; The aspect of the succession question in England; Essex in disgrace; The change in the succession question in consequence of the death of Essex; and Mission of Thomas James to Spain. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.