Dear Mr Macmillan

Thank you very much for sending me this very severe review in the Academy. I feel annihilated, and if my old name does carry off this edition, I will gladly rewrite what calls for it. I really did not know that German criticism had overthrown so much of the old Spanish standard histories to which I trusted, especially for a mere epitome of the old Gothic kingdom, and as I did not want ... continue reading

Sir,

Allow me to thank you for your notice of my recent volume of ‘Cameos of English history.’ But let me observe that Freitag derives the word sometimes spelt Lanzknechts as ‘Landsknechts’—free men of the country.

Miss Strickland, in her Life of Anne of Denmark, states that, though Oslo as Upslo afterwards had a Cathedral and was known as Christiana, both James’s letters, and the contemporary chroniclers describe the place as a small dreary village. I have ... continue reading