New-York tribune., 1905-11-26

from pitileSS face to another. The headSman-
would not strike until she gave the signal -Yoa
woman. and of the ladies who attended her
did 50 and partially bound her eyes s Win bs1 haa ha
dress in the and kept her hand upon her
where from the headsman's words she expected
the sword to be handed to MIN , Wae or5 Sne gcs vas
was hidden in the straw behind her was defty
the heavy blade around. in an instant cut through
the erect slender neck. and the head Of AIMS
the cloth that covered the platform
MOTIFS romantic story of the Kings waiting
while at the hunt to hear the distant gun an
nouncing Anne's death is pronounced impossible
We may be grateful for Motifs account, how
ever. since 1t suggested theme for one Of ths
most picturesque and truly poetic of modern
English ballads.
Jane Seymour was gentle fnsipid, not par
ticularly beautiful person-the most colorIess IN
temperament OF Henry's wives Sufficiently
well meaning herself, she cleverly coached
by her aspiring relatives. and she left no en-
emies behind her when she died year after
her marriage and less than fortnight after
the birth of Prince Edward The last ceremony
in which Jane the Quene'' ever took part was
the baby's christening in the chapel at Hampton
Court four days after his arrival The mother
lay on a magnificent couch of crimson velvet
and ermine through the long ceremony, willis
her. held her hand She died. "a sacrifice to
improper treatment and heartlessly cxacted cere-
moniaI" and the King wore black for her for
three months. After tNat Henry and CROMWELL
began to look about for comfortable political
alliance. and. unfortunately for man and woman
alike hit upon the Princess Of Cleves- And here
Master Hans Holbein, the painter, did thing
for which King Harry must have cursed him. in
his heart at least. He drew this German Anne
as, to this day, all may see-as a fair, disn1hed.
thoughtful girl with soft brown eyes "Alas!"
said the King, the morning after their first
meeting, whom should men trust?" The lady
was. in truth. exceedingly ugly. with a big,
bony masculine frame and large low-Gerrnan
failures deeply pitted with the ravages Of small
pox" Her manners were coarse. and she was
almost as uneducated a peasant Henry
could not endure her. Must needs, against
my will. put my head into the yoke?'' he cried
piteousIy to Cromwell AT the moment escape
was not possible; but he never rested until he
had broken the marriage on the ground Of her
prior betrothaI TO the Duke Of Lorraine Her
acquiescence in the matter filed him with gen
erosity, and the rest of her life spent as
the Kings fright dear sister in a luxury which
she keenly enjoyed
Before the annulment Of this marriage Henry.
who was now approaching fifty. had again fallen
in love-this time with beautiful maid Of
honor not yet eighteen years old In some re-
spects Katharine Howard, the orphan niece OF
the Duke of Norfolk and the cousin OF Anne
Boleyn, was the most unfortunate of the Kings
wives. She the sport Of circumstance. A
sadly neglected childhood had left her the
creature of corrupting influences from which
she could not emerge A terrible scandal rooted
in her coarse weakness if not in actual vileness
rose about her footsteps. and the girl of nine
teen. the wife of year. went to the block
dying, we remember to her credit with a high
courage. Henry, it is said suffered more in this
mOnial experiences. It appears that he really
loved this young Katharine, and he alternately
wept at the loss Of her and ragged over the hu-
initiation she had brought upon him He was
to have four years of life in this world. and
those years were solaced by his sixth WIFE
Parr. Lady Latiner She was on the
whole, the most satisfactory of the Ska good
woman. Just, kind and clever. She generally
used much tact in her dealings with her hus-
band, and she generous and helpful to his
three children There hour when the
opposite party at court almost accomplished her
downfall by inhaming the King against her; but
marry again, not too happily, and to die Of that
marriage. So mournfully drifts the last OF these
figures of the sixteenth century out OF Major
Hume's narrative-a narrative which may be
al for IN