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BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED BY
ADAM BLACK, EDINBURGH, AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN LONDON.
JOURNAL of a SOLDIER of the 71st REGIMENT, HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY, from 1806 to 1815. Including particulars of the Battles of Vimeira, Corunna, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Toulouse, and Waterloo. Third Edition. 1 vol. 12mo, 5s.
The EDINBURGH MEDICAL and SURGICAL JOURNAL. Vols. 27 and 28; being those for 1827. Published in Numbers, Quarterly, price 6s.
The EDINBURGH NEW PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL; exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the SCIENCES and the ARTS. Conducted by ROBERT JAMESON, F.R.S.L. & E. Regius Professor of Natural History, Lecturer on Mineralogy, and Keeper of the Museum of the University of Edinburgh, &c. &c. Published Quarterly, price 7s. 6d.
LION HUNTING; or, A SUMMER'S RAMBLE through Parts of FLANDERS, GERMANY, and SWITZERLAND, in 1825. With some Remarks on Men, Manners, and Things, at Home and Abroad. 1 vol. 12mo, 6s.
This publication contains some account of nearly one thousand books, including editions of the original Scriptures, Concordances to the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English Bibles; Hebrew and Greek Lexicon; British and Foreign Commentators on the Scriptures, Books on Sacred Chronology, Geography, and Antiquities; Ecclesiastical Historians; and numerous works of a miscellaneous nature, adapted to the illustration of the Word of God; it also furnishes short notices of the age, country, and profession of the authors.
A MANUAL of ANATOMY, arranged so as to afford a concise and accurate Description of the different parts of the Human Body. From the French of A. L. J. BAYLE. Revised and improved by WILLIAM BENNET, M.D. In one closely printed volume, 18mo, 7s. 6d. boards.
In a few days will be published, in 2 vols. 8vo, price ?.1, 4s.
LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY OF Original and Selected Publications IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF LITERATURE SCIENCE, & THE ARTS.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH: AND HURST, CHANCE & CO. LONDON.
LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
BY HENRY GLASSFORD BELL, ESQ.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH; AND HURST, CHANCE & CO. LONDON.
PREFACE
A new work on the subject of Mary Queen of Scots runs an eminent risk of being considered a work of supererogation. No period of British history has been more elaborately illustrated than that of her life and reign. She ascended the Scottish throne at a time replete with interest; when the country had awakened from the lethargy of ages, and when the gray dawn of civilization, heralding the full sunshine of coming years, threw its light and shade on many a bold and prominent figure, standing confessed in rugged grandeur as the darkness gradually rolled away. It was a time when national and individual character were alike strongly marked,--a time when Knox preached, Buchanan wrote, Murray plotted, and Bothwell murdered. The mailed feudal barons,--the unshrinking Reformers, founders of the Presbyterian Church, and mailed in mind, if not in body,--the discomfited, but the still rich and haughty ecclesiastics of the Romish faith, the contemporaries and followers of the stern Cardinal Beaton,--all start forth so vividly before the mind's eye, that they seem subjects better suited for the inspired pencil of a Salvator Rosa, than for the soberer pen of History. Mary herself, with her beauty and her misfortunes, shining among the rest like the creation of a softer age and clime, fills up the picture, and rivets the interest. She becomes the centre round
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