New-York tribune., 1902-01-31
THE STUARIS.
LITERATURE FOR THE LOVERS OF THAT
POVAJ. HOJTSE.

ROYAL HOUSE.
The proposed Stuart Series Of books to be
published from the Russell Press by F. T. ROD
nson & Co., in London. is to include reprints OF
rare works, as we'll as old MSS. printed for the
first time The first volume will contain
hitherto unknown English version of DR.. Bates's
History of the Late Troubles in England
1649." The second will contain The Coronation
of James T. from the MS. of Elias Ashmoie, now
in the Bodleian Library. The third volume is
to present Wishart's Memoirs of James Gra-
ham, Marquis of Montrose," edited and
abridged: the fourth volume is to hold the
Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee. the
Highland Clans. and the Massacre OF Glenco;
With an Account of Dundee's officers After
They Went TO France. By an Officer of the
Army, 1714" Volume is to consist Of
interesting miscellany-(a) The second of the
three parts of Eikon Basilike Deutera-Royal
History complicated being a history of Charles
II up to 1900. By r. F.. Esq. eyewitness;
(b) AN Exact Narrative and Relation of His
Majesties Escape from Worcester the Third
OF September 1851" (c) The Rev Christopher
Vases rendering Of the Electra of Sophoces,'
dedicated to the Princess Elizabeth. daughter
of Charles I. The binding of this volume is to be
in imitation of that covering Vases Electra"
The sixth volume Of the series will contain an
abbreviation of DR.. Peter Barwick's life Of his
brother. the Rev. John Barwick Dean of Dur
ham. with an appendix of letters from Charles
i in his imprisonment, and from Charles II and
the Earl of Clarendon in their exile The eighth
and last volume will offer "a relation of a
short survey of twenty-six counties observed in
seven weekes journey begun at the city of
Norwich. and from thence into the North on
Monday. August II, 1854 By Captain, a
Lieutenant and Ancient all 3 of the
military company in Norwich The various
plnolnss VIII be a special feature of the SERIES
all OF them being reproductions of beautiful or
famous bindings of the past. There are to be
only $40 copies of the series for sale and thirty
LOT presentation each copy to be numbered
concerning another contribution to Stuart 1T
eia'ure' MADE by an American an interesting
prospectus has recently been received Mr.
Michael Myers Shoemaker, author of Islands
Of the Southern Seas and Quaint Corners of
Ancient Empires" has prepared the work =
is entitled Palaces. Prisons and Resting Places
OF Mary Queen of Scots" This book is issued
py virtue d Co. the London publishers In two
eoltlons' one of them in particularly luxurious
Iofm' put the other made also with great care
as to presswork and Illustrations The latter
are about fifty in number. including a facsimile
in colors of the portrait OF Mary Stuart by
Clouet. in the Bibliotheque Rationale at Paris
nine photogravure plates and twenty full page
illustrations.
The volume gives written and pictorial rec
ORD or pilgrimage to every important place
or residence or Imprisonment of the Queen with
ample illustration of the places associated with
her career. From the place of her birth, at
Linlithgow. the reader is carried to Stirling
the scene of the coronation of the infant Queen
of Scotland, to Inchma home and her Child gar
den, and to the scene of her embarkati ton for
France. In the next chapters Mary's landing
at Roscoff Brittany. and many of the earlier
incidents of her residence in France treated,
leading to her marriage with the Dauphin. the
succession to the crown of France, the death of
Francis H. and Mary's life a widow prior to
her return to Scotland. In Scotland the interest
centres at Edinburgh and at Holyrood Palace
but the scenes Of Mary's meeting with Darnley,
of the tragedy at Kirk OF Field of the Jed burgh
Hermitage, Borthwick. Dunbar, Seaton, and
other incidents of the life in Loeb Leven Castle
the escape, the defeat at Langside. and the
flight to England. receive full notice and IL
lustration. From Loch Leven onward palaces
disappear from the Scottish Queens life, and
prisons alone come into view. Here the various
scenes of her sufferings a captive the final
betrayal at Fotheringhay. and the burial at
Peterborough and Westminster, complete the
tragic story.