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...manner has dealt more or less faithfully with the tragic story of the pitiful Queen of Scots. Mr. Hume applies the scientific method; avoids the Charybdis of sentimentality and the Scylla of puritanism; achieves clarity and justice. The men who loved her were beyond counting, she had many suitors???but once only, as it seems, Mary had a love affair of her own. The others were merely scarlet threads woven into the texture of her ambition to succeed Elizabeth as England's queen and to restore the Catholic church to Britain...
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