A SERVANT OF THE KING. UNKNOWN.
London :
Wiliam Blackwood and Sons
Yet another historical romance! "A Servant of the King"' concerns itself with the history of a young lad who in the year 1640 "comes up to London to seek personal service with the newly-created Earl of Sti afford. The young man is personable, of pleasing address and gentle bnth — indeed, has many claims to consideration beside the fact of his father's old friendship for Sir Thomas Wentworth. Yet, since the lesser must always be absorbed by tlie greater, Hpifraj Gilcliriat,
his life and adventures, are but dimly seen. in the strong lights and still deepeij shadows that mask the " career of th-afc unfortunate statesmau, the Earl of Strafford. Here, of course, are all the "_nevi^able Court- puppets that complete tha realisation of the historical novel or rcn mance, and here the equally necessary a.d-. juncts of Court functions, brilliant? pageants, and midnight assignations. Novs the Queen and her ladies sweep by, antt again the King, with his miserable vacil-* lat ions, his felSsh craft, his double-dyed treachery, drifts hither and thither ; bufc always these figures — even the royalties — are subservient to the all-absorbing, dominating personalities of Wentworth aid Lucy, Countess of Carlisle. These two, the master man and the beautiful woman, with the fluctuating perilous story of their political intrigues and their personal love, are the theme from first to last of "A Servant of the King.*'
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Otago Witness, Issue 2771, 24 April 1907, Page 78
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238A SERVANT OF THE KING. UNKNOWN. Otago Witness, Issue 2771, 24 April 1907, Page 78
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