Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 156: For July, 1882 October, 1882 Nor did his audacity stop here. The instinctive awe with which Nature averts her face from the shame and havoc of death was silent in the presence Of his imperious self-absorption. The merciful mystery of the grave met with no reverence from his morbid curiosity. Ghastly grotesque must have been the scene in the stately Abbey of Batalha, when, by order of the boy-king (it was in the body of John II. Was lifted from lts quiet grave of three quarters of a century, and, being found entire and uncorrupted, was placed erect on its feet, clad 1n'k1ngly robes, and armed with the rusty sword it had once W1elded in no child's sport. Whereupon the Duke of Aveiro was commanded to complete the grim ceremonial by kissing, in token of homage, the withered hand Of the corpse, and Sebas tian, exclaiming, Behold the best Officer of our kingly office I' 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.