The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
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London Standard. H .y ~ nance. read history he may possiDy .ss.x nsxs had an ironical meaning. He had stsosc. s%' ter him himself that nobody Knew batter hoy much of what passes under the second of tncSSe names ought to be described by the hrW. &X is that he meant simply what he said-nameiy, that it is far more profitable to take the shrenicies: memoirs or rs nse vn,,rss,s with them. than to spend your time over little stories of a professediy authentic character.
 man. and yet he cannot be cleared of the charge of having helped Poltrot de Meree to p.na sSss RS sa . % S: snss. S the s asn right way of judging the men of the Renais- cause. and the bad those who did these things merely for the acre 9f ,hs a,n ar Wla for ens sns
 series of assassins. and finally died by the hand of one of them. was engaged Tn q plot
 fierceiy angry because the jailers of Queen
 Mary refused to kill their prisoner, They again nps go ss oP ss S n
 ject 1t contrary to the laws of lod snd
 man, but from well. grounded belief that her Majesty was perfectly capable Of hanging them afterward, in order to vindicate her own
 Lord surshey had trustworthy tsrssr srss..,i1 in use of his services Yet Elizabeth deserved all the honor her subjects gave her. ani Burghley was great ana patriotic Mnater sc be blamed unreservedly. Both had to deal with enemies who had no scruple and who acted without regard to law. The gfave,t moralists of the time, Protestant ar Roman Catholic. agreed that it was legitirnate in th., private citizen to Kill the 'tyrant. by which they meant the man who oppressed others by violence and disregarded all right we wno
 live in times when no one can put namseh nn ssir judges of their deeds or opinions We near of the courtly grace of this gentleman or tna.
 terable brutality We need not believe every
 word Brantome wrote, but he Is too fuiy confirmed by more, sober authorities to De re-
 jected wholly. The accomplished gentlemen
 who built and lived In those beautiful chateaus did things at which a Hooligap would shud- der. The noble Bayard gained reputation not acting like an unspeakable scoundrel to two defenseless women. The praise ne earned justly is the condemnation of his generation
 It boasted of doing all the wickeaness men msnaa, m South Africa. What, ineed, was not possipte when the King of France could give his son, the Duke of orleans who became King Henry H.. the lessen told in the memoirs of vielle- vile? Their authority Is indeed very dubious, but they are contemporary, and the tale more than bears out Guizots judgment It tells how and bragged of what they would do when the King was dead. how they were overheard by a fool-a motley fool--and how he revealed It all to King Francis. Then his Majesty sent for the Lieutenant of the Scots Guard and ordered him to arrest the Prince with all his suite and wreck the house. The Duke was warned in time and took hiding m q ,,ss' do,es.' while the Scotchmen. always punctuai in the discharge of duty. smashed his furniture to small bits and drove his inferior Iomestics through the upper windows with halberds.
 Such was the courtly grace of those artistic ages. .-.