Show mary stuart dupen of id sketch by lo 10 I history and romance truth and fiction have over been nearly allied like the tine gwinm bif graceful tendrils around the centenarian oak adding to it achara of beauty while depriving it of t certain amount lof vital vigor thus fiction has aver wound iteld in twin abing playfulness around th olid stubborn truth of history improving its aesthetic appearance ahu impairing its scientific value there is no greit personage in the worlds history whose life is n mirrored back in a materially d ant aspect front the true likeness af pf life the cunning art of the masters of fiction has re touched the portraits handed down sometimes in rough and uncouth contours by star and incorruptible truth all the lovely traits are brought into shining broms proms the repulsive hideous tea tur esre placed in that clever ehko which lends enchantment to the view until at last the idealized picture presented to us is mot un like from the authenticated reality such has been the case in an amii nent degree with the unfortunate queen ef scotland germanas germanys Germ anys greatest dramatist the immortal author of wilhelm tell schiller has devoted this labor of love to the beautiful rival of En glands great elizabeth and that the labor was not lost is proven by the unanimous enthusiasm with which tragedy mary stuart has been received by the public these 80 years in his drama the poet succeeded in drawing the portrait of Scot lands fairest but unhappiest monarch with guch tile like features so touching a sympathy that it is difficult for any one to discard the beautiful poetical mirage for the liken ens which unadorned history ha bequeathed to us and yet this we must do if we care more far solidly substantiated truth than for pigments figments fig ments of idealizing vp to the most recent days the historians have continued their painstaking researches on this interesting subject they have taken sides for and against the beautiful queen ef the scots but the one undisputable result ef all their discussion was that the fair sufferer had been no less a sinner that she was even contrary to assertion worse than her reputation the touching v c tim of beauty af the weakness of a bendar heart of the jealousy of another woman and of the barbarism of her century reveal herself as being whose many brilliant endowments of nature were disfigured by ugly des facts of character and who finally met her destruction more by her own spiteful recklessness and perverse obstinacy than through the faults of others let u view the checkered check pred career of queen mary and essay to copy her likeness in faint but true outline the of the political agitation between catholics and protestants which shook the england of century in hor very foundations took possession of mary when she was yet lying as an infant in the cradle A babe yet but already a queen no wonder that speculations schemes and intrigues were rife scarcely a year old at the death of her father jame V king of scotland the was promised by the regent count arran to king henry VIII of england for his son edward then years old this project suited the protestant scots but not the catholic queen mother the promise is therefore revoked and war ensues but the rupture is sot healed mary now receives her education in france and soon grows up in mind and body as a moat bewitching creature by her beauty grac and culture sho fascinates and en chants every one who sees her music and dance riding and hunting are her favorite occupation sho also possesses possesse pos como poetical talent which she does not allow to remain uncultivated As soon as she ba reached her year she is married to the dauphin afterwards king francis I what a handsome couple full of the most brilliant promis eat but the dissolute morals of the french court under the astute queen mother catherine of medicis fail not of exercising their baneful influence on the character ef the young dauphine love of amuse ment passion and levity aro henceforth the salient features of her moral nature by which much in her after life can be explained although not excused from her crafty mother in w she early acquired that mao chiave llian artof dissimulation which formed the chief part of the diplomacy and of henage while on theolier theo lher hand she exhibits an artful appearance appe aranca of a fatal significance waa the fact that mary carried ever since her marriage of england by the side of the scotch armorial bearings a eign of her all absorbing ambition and at the tame time a permanent signal of enmity for elizabeth who saw in this pretension of her rival an on her from this time dates abo assiduous connection of elizabeth with the mat con tent grandeas grandees Gran dees and sectarian of scotland tho chasm opened by thia waa never closed nor aven bridged over marys marriage with franck I was only of short duration tho king died suddenly on deo the young widow who was then only 18 years old appears to have loved truly and to have regretted his los sincerely only with difficulty could she be consoled and comforted soon however the sojourn in france which she lavod so dearly wa made disagreeable to her especially it was the queen mother the ambition catherine of medicis who regarded her with tha green eyes of jealousy ahm mary re solved moat regretfully to return to her native country the dismal of abo cold and dreary scot at farat eua intended to auko her way by england but elizabeth opposed thi project and virtually refused her letter of free paa aage by making the granting of a such dependent on marys fornili and final renunciation to her on th english thia the widow ofF I did not feel inclined to do ha boarded the shin it cali for tobago to ed ahro h arrived on the oth 1502 II 11 the tunny adya dya of youth hd elapsed and hard tl ruggle for ex full of nd wily nt to arita at t her first return into her own country mary was received with loud acclamation and all were delighted with her winsome grace and charming aft ability but aoa the entered into adverse situations and realized but too painfully how much ehe wa es by nature and custom from her native lind she found her religion oppressed royalty humiliated nobility unduly exalted she wilbod to render herself popular among the manse and respected by the arastoo aris too racy but thare were too rny bling blocks for her impetuous mood te avoid them all safely at first things went along toler ably smoothly marys half brother james stuart count murray assist d the young queen who was without experience and knowledge in the art of governing with hi fraternal advice conquering her religious thy be granted the the greatest possible toleration recognized the supremacy of the established reformed church and only claimed for herself the unimpeded cult of her own faith but the intolerant zealous zealots of patriotism and presbyterianism with john knox the worthy disciple of the geneva master persecutor john calvin at the head deemed it an abi omi nation that the balls of the royal palace of should be desa orated by catholic rites no less offense was given by mary gay enjoyment of life her love af pf hunting music and dance the fanatical priests of the predestination church preached against the queens merry life and endeavored from the pulpit to prejudice the mind all the people against her it ws not long before an insurrection arke out which however was shortly quelled with murrays Mur rays aid it is characteristic of the chivalrous mind of the young queen that ghe took an active part in the campaign in person with all her feminine graces and charms eho combined a virile endurance and never shirked or quailed before occasional hardships harda hips aad fatigues but the prevailing impulse of her nature was a royal rolf assurance and the ambition to govern rather would once cease to live than cease to reigna maxim in which the has unfalteringly persisted to her very end in order to be ac knowlt edged by elizabeth the professed virgin queen as baires beires of the english crown she often tried to reconcile fsr but elizabeth was not made of such stuff as dreams are made of and ehe would unalterably respond to all reconciliation with a reference to the edinburg treaty this would invariably wreck all hope of an amiable understanding der standing soon after enry fell out with her brother james a rupture which afterwards cost her death it was not to be expected that the young beautiful widow should long be without alent the first was don carlo the eon and heir of philip II 11 of spain this connection tion however with the hated catholic dynasty of spain was rendered impossible by the presbyterian zealous zealots zea lots then there was count leicester the handsome and gifted favorite of queen elizabeth whom the balter proposed herself to mary this recommendation however euf faced to make the bateh a most un dwi rable one for the scotch queen in tragedy leicester love mary while professing demotion to eldabeth Elu abeth and finally loses kolh hit royal amours over his two A third was lord darnley a son of the count of lennol a remote relative of the house of the stuarts he finally carried off the fair prize A youth of nineteen years noble gay nd air he succeeded in impressing his too monarch so favorably that she eoon conceived a pas for him abely the qualities of his and morals did not agree with the prepossessing advantage advant ace of his physical appearance A superficial and insignificant man equally devoid of education dignity self or will power he was by no means a suitable companion for the and but well cultured and sensitive queen but iio pleaded hr fancy and that WM alm never w a trait in mary nature in spite if all warning aad the arrogant re lit of the meddlesome presbyterian lords on july ad 1565 she her wedding with darnley and bestowed upon him the royal title only too abon the love mad queen awoke out of the delusion del union had allured hr to this precipitate step darnley revealed himself in all the of hii weakness coarse ne and became daily more repulsive to his disgusted oon ort and contempt had taken the place of love and esteem n wonder if it finally acme to a catastrophe mary had an italien secretary by the name of biccio who assisted her in the government anaias and enjoyed her imi elicit confidence brides he was favored by nature with a winning figure and he combined with aro docial accod and hence was a fre anent and welcomed visitor with the queen thi excited Darn leyB acal aucy although entirely without jut cause H plotted with number of vile conspirator and in the night of march 1566 he broke violently into marya had alie bodiou secretary dragged away from her writing table and to death in her tight this atrocious waa the more brut althe qun then anticipating an early family occurrence and the italian was her confidant but by no means her lover mary indignation at insult done to herban therefore be wall imagined and equally well excused A n true pupil of the Macchia vollian state craft however he know bow to di i mulata her of mind sha resolved to b with the bullot vengeance to be ob tf tined opportune moment before be broke with her husband she was anxious to reconcile her brother murray the roust have adly ere this no coooer had she regained hii support than he went to work executing hr designs of vengeance it had been air y lask of ft little cajoling to obtain from her husband the names of the of Ric cios aimos ginat ioa and now of doom had conte for they should larn that i woman hatred it tho most lio the moat and labost of lanb ions nia ember the medo and the kriemhild of tho |