12 MARCH 1927, Page 44

LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS. By Robert Keable. (Constable. 8s. 6d.)—The reputation

that Mr. Keable has gained for what is generally described as "frankness," will certainly be increased by his new novel. In it he tells of the religious and amatory adventures of a young priest, who left the Catholic Church because he felt unable to accept its doctrines. There seems to have been no particular reason why he should also have refused to accept marriage; except that he and the woman he loved " had both done with conventional living," and that she declared She would never hamper him in his search for "Truth." Mr. Robert Keablc has nothing particularly new to say on the subject of either religion or love, and one feels that most of his arguments are rather childish.