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MRS, WALTTORD. WALTFORD, whose full

name 1s Lucey Betlna Walford, the popular author of ** Mr, ““T'he Babyv's Grand- mother,” *The Mischiel of Monica,” and many other novels known to cvery reader, 1: the daughter of the sccond son ot Sir James Colquhoun of i.uss, tenth Baronct of the namce and author of a bool well known to sportsmen, The Moor and the T.och,” who married Niss IFrances FFuller-Maitland, a lady of marked literary gifts. Mrs. Waltord began to write at a

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very carly age, but simply for the joy of writing, cverything she wrote before the ace ol twenty being burnt as soon as written, unscen by any eye except her own. It was not until four yvears after her marriage, m 1860, to Mr. Alfred Saunders Walford that “Mr. Smith 7 owas written. The beauty of the book—and, indced, ** Mr. Smith 7 13 quitc unique in its own line—struck the public strongly, and 1ts writer started on the long carcer of popu- larity which has cver since continucd to increase. Her home, Cranbrooke Hall, in IKssexy s onc ol those de- lehtful old places which combine the rest and retirement of the country with cvery factlity for taking part in the busy Tife of the metropolis.

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PRESENT DAY, Lrom a Lhoto, by Russell & Sons, Laker-strect, B