Used good.
1946
The Casket Letters, alleged to have been
written by Mary Stuart to Bothwell, have
provideda theme for argument since the
day of their discovery or production. In
this book the editor, who concurs with
Andrew Lang's final verdict, has
modernised the English of the Letters
in the hope of benefiting the General
Reader.
The Sonnets have, we believe, ne
before been translated. Probably few
persons have troubled to read them:
but we submit that it is not easy to find
any love-poems which, whatever may
be the literary merit of these sonnets,
are so passionate, so actual, so feminine,
so obviously written with a living pen."
Indeed, they are perhaps the most
notable of all "royal " verses.