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THE MYSTERY OF MARIA STELLA, 

 LADY NEWBOROUGH. 



By SIR RALPH PAYNE-GALLWEY, Bart. 



Demy 8vo. With over 20 lUustrations and a Photogvavuve Frontispiece. 



7s. 6d. net. 



The strange story of Maria Stella is one of the most interesting of 

 unsolved mysteries. Whether she was Princess or peasant, a Bourbon 

 of France or a humble Chiappini of Tuscany, is a. problem still 

 unsettled, and upon its issue depends the real identity of the child 

 who afterwards became Louis Philippe, King of France. The whole 

 of the evidence is carefully worked out by the Author, and his view 

 is clearly that Maria Stella was a daughter of Philippe Egalite. 



NEW FICTION. 



Crown Svo. 6s. each. 



HIS FIRST LEAVE. 



By L. ALLEN MARKER, 



Author of 'The Intervention of the Duke,' 'Wee Folk, Good Folk,' 

 ' Concerning Paul and Fiammetta,' etc. 



It is often made a subject of reproach to our novelists that they 

 rarely introduce children into their stories, probably because of the 

 difficulty of drawing them 'to the life.' Mrs. Marker's skill in this 

 direction has already been shown in the portraits of Paul and Fiam- 

 metta, and although ' His First Leave ' is a much more ' grown-up ' 

 book, the pathetic figure of little Roger, the child whose sweet 

 nature triumphed over the ill-effects of a mother's neglect, is indis- 

 pensable among the dramatis personse. The principal part, however, 

 is played by Herrick Wycherly, and this charming character of a 

 girl, slightly unconventional but always delightful, proves that the 

 author can portray a grown-up maiden no less successfully than a 

 child. The love-story of Herrick and Montagu provides the main 

 current of the book, complicated by the baleful intervention of Mrs. 

 Reeve; but the windings of the current and its final issue must be 

 traced by the reader in the pages of this entertaining novel. 



