10 OCTOBER 1896, Page 13

A Question of Faith. By L. Dou g al. (Hutchinson and Co.)—

Alice Bolitho is an agnostic. She has no faith, she says, in a Providence. And her lover, coming to know of a complication in which she is involved without any fault of her own, loses his faith in her. This may be said to be the main situation of the book. It is well written, and the characters, especially Mr. Knighton, who plays the part of a chorus, and Amy, who exhibits the de- pendent type of woman, as Alice exhibits the independent, are well drawn.