The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-01
QUEEN MARY.
TENNYsoN's NEW DRAMA.
THE MOST srRIKING POINTS.

TRACTS-BLO0DY MAR1'S LIFE, LOVE AND
DEArH-FIDELITY OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS
ToRICAL TRUTH.
Tennyson's new poem which has been
by the London Times as pos
sessing more fire than any work since the
days of Shakespeare, was published yester-
day by James r. Osgood 81 Co. The follow
ing review is found in the columns OF the
Cincinnati Gazette, which had been favored
with an advanced copy: Tho drama has
forty-four characters, all or nearly all his
torical, besides the usual array OF lords and
their attendants, members OF parliament
and the council, guards, pages, etc. 1t
opens in Aldgate. London, just after the &C
cession of Queen Mary, who is the one to
whose name the word 'sbloody" is common
ly prefixed. All is not harmony
and loyalty. The marshalman bids the
crowd shout Long live Queen
Mary, the lawful and legitimate daughter
of Henry the Eighth" Many comply, but
others stumble on the long word legitimate.
One thinks it means bastard, another that
it signifies true-born. "Why," asks the
first speaker, "didn't the parliament make
her bestard?p NO." replies another, ut
man; that was AFTER" cries third. "Then,
which is the bastard?" exclaims the puzzled
first speaker. "Trotb," answers one of his
interlocutors, "they be both bastards by act
of parliament" This short conversation
shows as well as pages of description could
do the confusion in legislation occasioned by
King Henry's frequent changes OF policy,
and their modification during the brief
reign of bis son. Mary and her sister Eliza
beth now ride past side by
side. The people criticise their new
sovereign, some pleasantly. hoping for good
times, others doubtingly. One gentle
man trusts that it Is but a rumor "that
Charles, the master oftbe world, has offered
her his son Philip, the pope and the devil"
The scene now changes to Lambeth Palace,
where Cranmer and Peter Martyr are in con-
sultation. The latter has his passport and
begs the primate 70 fly with him. He urges
him to this step, first, because of his advo
cacy of the claims of Lady Jane Grey; sec
ond, because of his dissent from the Church
of Rome; and third, because OF his agency in
the divorce of the queens father and mother.
Cranmer defends his course on each of these
points, and says:
Ny flight were such a scandal to the faith,
The downfall of so many simple souls,
dare not leave my post.
AS Martyr renews his entreaties, he adds:
Fly and farewell, and let me die the death.
The door has just closed after his friend
when two officers come TO lead him to the
tower.
The third scene introduces the Roman
Catholic Father Bourne preaching at st.
hearers is Noailles, the French ambassador,
who, jealous. of Spanish influence over the
Queen, strives to excite the Protestant pref
udices of the crowd through the agency OF
his servant. The latter is so successful that
a party of Spaniards on approaching the
place are driven away by volleys of stones.
Noailles would have EllZabsth made Queen,
or executed by her jealous sister, he does
not care which, for mis- chief end is to in
crease the power of France. He wins to his
confidence, Edward Courtenay, Earl OF
Devon, a cousin and rejected lover of Mary.
He visits Elizabeth and tries to
win her hand, assuring her that the Spanish
she Elizabeth as his bride would surely be
made queen by reclamation. She is too
shrewd TO give much encouragement TO his
wild scheme, and before he can carry his
entreaties further they are interrupted. Lord
William Howard, her uncle, comes in, and
also the Roman Catholic Bishop Gardiner.
OF this prosecuting prelate Elizabeth is
made to speak thus:
But this fierce old Gardiner, his big badness
That irriiBble forelock which he rubs,
His buzzard beak and deep incavern'd eyes
Half frightme.
She expresses her apprehensions to her
uncle that she may be murdered. He re-
plies that there is little danger of this
but,
If they dared
To harm you, would blow this Philip and all
Your trouble to the dog star and 10 the devil.
Elizabeth's reply to this rough speech is
very neatly turned:
To the Pleads, uncle they have lost sister.
Mary's. love for Philip of Spain, so many
years her junior and so cold and passionless
as to freeze every emotion save that of fear
is exquisitely portrayed, but at such length
that we can only call attention to the fact
In vain the smooth-tongued Noailles en-
desvors to turn her thoughts in other direc
lions. She will have
HER COUSIN PHILIP,
and none else. Her other cousin the Papa
Legate, Reginald Pole, would have her pro-
coed cautiously and humanely in her eccle
sastical reforms, and Simon Renard, the
Spanish ambassador, but Bishop Gardiner
urge on fercer policy, to which she is
too ready to yield. Renard says:
My master Charles
FADE you go soiIy witn ySaf nefecS here
Spit them like larks for aught care Besides
When Henry broke the carcass of your Church
Who dragged the scatter'd limbs into their den
The Pope would have you make them render
So would your cousin, Cardinal Pole; iI-counsel
These let them keep at present; stir not yet
This matter of the church lands. At his coming
Your star viii rise.
MARY.
NY star baelful one.
see but the black night, and hear the wolf.
What star?
RENARD.
Your star will be your princely son
Heir OF this England and the Netherlands!
And If your wolf the while should howl fol
more
Well dust him from a b tg of Spanish gold.
do believe, have busted some already,
That, soon or late, your parliament is ours.
Wyatt's short-lived instruction comes in
as an episode filing the second act. 1t j:
graphically portrayed. The division o.
sentiment in London is thus described by
Howard:
Your city Is divided. AS we past,
Some hail'd, some hissd us. There were citi
zens
stood each before his shut-up booth, and look d
AS grim and grave as from funeral.
And here a knot OF ruffians all in rags,
With execrating execrable eyes,
Glared at the citizen. Here was young mother
Her face on flame, her red hair all blown back
She shrilliug Wyatt" while the boy she held