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...confused with Austrian Author Stefan Zweig, no kin (Conflicts, Amok, Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles...
...favorite artists of one who has bought so widely, but Mrs. Rockefeller's intimates know that she has two favorite views : one from her gallery window; the other a vista in Central Park. She has commissioned the dryly accurate Charles Sheeler to paint the latter, the more impressionistic Stefan Hirsch to do the gallery view...
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND AND THE ISLES-Stefan Zweig-Viking...
...Stefan Zweig's analysis, Mary's greatness lay in her passionate surrender of her throne when love overwhelmed her. But his accounts of conditions in Scotland give the impression that she surrendered for love what had already been lost by politics. Far more convincing than his analysis of her emotional development is his picture of Mary entering Scotland when it had already been lost to Catholicism, groping wildly for support in the first years of her reign, marrying Darnley in a confused effort to satisfy Elizabeth, turning from Darnley when she found that the marriage meant only greater...
...Stefan Zweig the question of her guilt or innocence is largely irrelevant. Queen of Scotland when she was six days old, Queen of France at 16, Mary had known power, security, ease, without having struggled for them, had no experience in statecraft when, at the age of 18, she took up the task of governing Scotland. Unlike Elizabeth, whose wits had been developed by imprisonment and general adversity, Mary had been sheltered all her life. She was cultivated, gracious, unawakened, essentially immature, when she found herself pitted against the greatest queen on earth. A Catholic, she discovered the reality...