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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS by Antonia Fraser. 613 pages. Delacorte...
...however, Mary Queen of Scots projected herself dramatically into the royal and religious tumult of the 16th century. In death as in life, she was sometimes reviled as a scheming whore, sometimes revered as a misunderstood martyr to her Roman Catholic faith. But she was invariably regarded as fascinating. Antonia Fraser's overlong but richly readable biography demonstrates that Mary's great fascination continues unabated...
...Antonia Fraser's approach to such goings-on is the one advocated by 19th Century Historian James Froude: "To look wherever we can through the eyes of contemporaries, from whom the future was concealed." With such handling, events achieve a fresh plausibility; Mary's behavior with Darnley and Bothwell, for example, becomes humanly understandable. Historic perspectives are foreshortened-a most notable defect in Miss Fraser's acerbic portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Nonetheless, the author marshals her evidence generously enough to allow for differing interpretations and briskly clears away the "cobwebs of fantasy" that have attached themselves...
...different kind of political action from supporting a worthwhile candidate, but it will make a point. Antonia H. Chayes (Mrs. Abram Chayes, Human Resources Consultant, Model Cities, Boston; Dean-Elect, Jackson College, Tufts University...
...Baby Died." Defense Psychiatrist David Johnston testified that Antonia was not capable of murdering her child, and then showed the 47-minute film of one of the hypnosis sessions that had led to his conclusion. In it, Johnston is seen putting her into a trance, then taking her back to the night of the baby's death. She had been given a sedative, she says, and as Dr. Johnston snaps his fingers she remembers being wakened. "The baby cry again," she says. "The baby needs to be feeded, and got to get the bottle. The baby was crying...