FOR no reason that we can very satisfactorily explain, we have read this odd book quite through ; and at the end we are in doubt whether Mr. Gayarré, who is of Spanish extraction, wrote the work in ...

The so-called Golden Age of Spain had many tarnished secrets, and King Philip II was behind the darkest of them. Cold, cruel, and inflexible in his ways, Philip viewed himself as the pious hero of ...

He was the dour Catholic despot bent on stamping out the Reformation; she was the plucky ruler of Europe's leading Protestant power. He was the widower who proposed marriage to his sister-in-law; she ...