Page MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS 1 THE FOUR MARYS 25 MARY FLEMING 35 MARY LIVINGSTON 49 MARY BETON 61 MARY SETON 69 THE SONG OF MARY STUART 79 MAISTER RANDOLPHE'S FANTASIE 91 THE FIRST "STUART" TRAGEDY AND ITS AUTHOR 129 LORETTO 141 THE ISLE OF MAY 153 EDINBURGH AND HER PATRON SAINT 191 THE ROCK OF DUMBARTON 199 JAMES VI AS STATESMAN AND POET 209 THE INVASION OF AILSA CRAIG 225 THE STORY OF A BALLAD--"KINMONT WILLIE" 237 A RAID ON THE WEE CUMBRAE 247 RIOTOUS GLASGOW 253 THE OLD SCOTTISH ARMY 267 THE STORY OF THE "LONG-TAIL" MYTH 291 INDEX 361 IN BYWAYS OF SCOTTISH HISTORY MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS A Brilliant Personality More than three hundred years have elapsed since Mary Stuart was sent to the scaffold by Elizabeth, and met death with that noble fortitude which awed her enemies and which has half redeemed her fame in the eyes even of those who regard the tragedy of Fotheringay as an act no less of justice than of expediency. But even at the present time interest in her memory has not died away; nor can the question of her innocence or of her guilt be yet said to have been definitely settled by all that has been written about her in the interval. It hardly seems probable that it ever will be, for it is still a question of politics with some and of religion with many. And even in the rare instances where judgment is not blinded by the prejudice or the partiality of party or of creed, it is affected by an influence, nobler and more excusable indeed, but not less powerful nor less misleading--by unreasoning sentiment, by the sympathy which the romance of the unfortunate Queen's chequered career, her legendary beauty, her long captivity, and her heroic death awaken.