Essays in History and Biography, Including the Defence of Mary Stuart (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essays in History and Biography, Including the Defence of Mary Stuart<br><br>The volume in which the Defence of Mary Stuart originally appeared went out of print a few weeks after it was published, and is now scarce and dear. I would have reprinted it at the time, but for one consideration. The speech of an Advocate is always open to the observation that it is - the speech of an Advocate. This rather recondite reflection had been expanded by more than one of my critics, who held that a tone of partisanship was thus given to what was in substance an unimpassioned and impartial "summing up." I would have liked, therefore, to have turned the argument into a less forensic channel, - to have made it a charge from the Bench rather than a pleading from the Bar. But the experiments I tried were not satisfactory; I found that a change of form involved radical reconstruction; and for that I had neither time nor patience. It is now reprinted almost exactly as it was written. One or two new paragraphs, however, have been introduced, and there are many additional notes.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.