| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 390w. |
“Mr. Coutts is a grave writer whose verse moves always with dignity, and now and then by dint of simplicity and sincerity rises to a considerable measure of poetry.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 160w. |
Cowan, Samuel. [Last days of Mary Stuart and the journal of Bourgoyne, her physician.] *$3. Lippincott.
Letters of Queen Mary and the journal of her physician are used to prove her innocence of any complicity in the plotting against Elizabeth.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“The journal was the work of a man of gossipy intellect of something the same type as that of Boswell and Pepys, and consequently it is often entertaining, and constantly gives close at hand views of the domestic life of Mary’s court.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w. |
“He is a little too partisan and dead-sure to make much of an historian, but he puts his case with enthusiasm and some skill.”