Mr. Edward Arnold’s List of New Books 9 
THE MYSTERY OF MARIA STELLA, 
LADY NEWBOROUGH. 
By SIR RALPH PAYNE-GALLWEY, Bart. 
Demy 8v0. With ovey 20 Illustrations and a Photogravuve 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 Egalité. 
NEW FICTION. 
Crown 8vo. 6s. each. 
HIS FIRST LEAVE. 
By L. ALLEN HARKER, 
AvUTHOR oF ‘THE INTERVENTION OF THE DuKE,’ ‘Wee Fox, Goop Fo x,’ 
*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. Harker’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 persone. 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. 
