310
SAMUEL R. GARDINER

_Cervantes' Don Quixote Reforms Literature (A.D. 1605)_, 325
HENRY EDWARD WATTS

_Earliest Positive Discovery of Australia (A.D. 1606)_, 340
LOUIS BECKE
WALTER JEFFERY

_Settlement of Virginia (A.D. 1607)
Charter under which America was Colonized_, 350
R. R. HOWISON

_Founding of Quebec (A.D. 1608)
Champlain Establishes French Power in Canada_, 366
H. H. MILES

_Universal Chronology (A.D. 1558-1608)_, 387
JOHN RUDD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME X

PAGE

_Murder of the favorite, Rizzio, at the feet of Mary
Stuart, by her husband and associate conspirators
(page 56)_, Frontispiece
Painting by Eug. Siberdt.

_Catharine de' Medici, accompanied by her suite, issues
from the gate of the Louvre the morning after the Massacre
of St. Bartholomew_, 142
Painting by Ed. Debat-Ponsan.

AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE

TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES

OF THE GREAT EVENTS

(AGE OF ELIZABETH AND PHILIP II)

CHARLES F. HORNE

Philip II succeeded his father Charles V on the throne of Spain. The
vast extent of his domains, the absoluteness of his authority, and,
above all, the enormous wealth that poured into his coffers from the
Spanish conquests in America, made him the most powerful monarch of his
time, the central figure of the age. It was largely because of Philip's
personal character that the great religious struggle of the Reformation
entered upon a new phase, became far more sinister, more black and
deadly, extended over all Europe, and bathed the civilized world in
blood. England stood forth as the centre of opposition against Philip,
and under the unwilling leadership of Elizabeth entered on its epic
period of heroism, was stimulated to that remarkable outburst of energy
and intellect and power which we call the Elizabethan age.

Philip, with a tenacity of purpose from which no fortune good or bad
could lure him for a moment, pursued two objects throughout his reign
(1555-1598)