. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . mag-ination. Even in Scotch tartan, adds our author, with par-donable nationality, she was charming, but when the French, Spanish, or Italian fashion, she was ador-able ! We shall only add one more panegyric, and from thepen of an English author — Carte — in whose History ofEngland we find the following portrait of Mary in herlater years, during her captivity : — Every part of her body was so
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . mag-ination. Even in Scotch tartan, adds our author, with par-donable nationality, she was charming, but when the French, Spanish, or Italian fashion, she was ador-able ! We shall only add one more panegyric, and from thepen of an English author — Carte — in whose History ofEngland we find the following portrait of Mary in herlater years, during her captivity : — Every part of her body was so justly proportioned, andso exquisitely framed, that people, lost in admiration ofeach, were apt to imagine she was something more thanhuman; a majestic air, mixed with sweetness, sat uponher brow, and all the graces in nature conspired to set oflfher person, adding to her matchless beauty a charm thatwas irresistible. Every motion, gesture, and action, accom-jDanied with a manner too dehcate to be described, struckall beholders, and every one was won by the sweetness ofher nature, the afiability of her reception, the obUgingnessof her carriage, and the charms of her LADY JANE GKEY. Humes version of the tragic history of Lad} Jane Greyhas ever been adiiiired for the exquisite taste and graceof style it displays, as well as for its essential adherenceto truth. It forms a fine accompaniment to the engrav-ing. The title of the Princess Mary, after the demise of herbrother, was not exposed to any considerable difficulty;and the objections started by the Lady Jane Greys parti-sans were new and unheard of by the nation. Though allthe Protestants, and even many of the Catholics, believedthe marriage of Henry VHL with Catharine of Arragon tobe unlawful and invalid; yet, as it had been contractedby the parties without any criminal intention, had beenavowed by their parents, recognized by the nation, andseemingly founded on those principles of law and religionwhich th
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