Stuart dynasty

P E E F A E.
The historical chapters on the Stewards of Scotland
and on the earlier Kings of the Stuart race, preceding
those papers of Her Majesty's at Windsor, which
form the main attraction of this work — were com-
piled for the most part hefore that exhibition of
pictures and relics which became so popular during
the winter of 1888-9. A prolonged illness made it
impossible to produce any book in time for last
year's Stuart Exhibition, and now on the eve of
public attention being directed to the Tudor epoch
in English history, these studies appear.
That the time is not, however, inopportune, a survey
of the conflicting ambitions and consequent rivalries
of the two families of Tudor and Stuart will prove ;
while the fact that Margaret, sister of Henry VIII.,
by her marriage with James IV. of Scotland, linked
the two dynasties together by the ties of kinship,
and brought, it about that their respective interests
should soon become identical under one crown, made
each of those historical subjects attractive in con-
nection with the other.
That the present short studies should be extended
over more than 400 years, when students will intui-
tively turn to the Cardinal of York's papers, which