Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 44: March and June, 1858 Had Henry become a Catholic earlier than he did he would have lost all the political advantages of the step. His conversion took place at a time when it had become obvious that he could not otherwise be king of France, but when his enemies had sufficiently experienced the difficulty of opposing him. He knew the danger of doing it prematurely, though he knew that it could notultimately be avoided. N o cannon, he said with his usual levity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.