8 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 25

• A Soul Apart. By Adeline Sergeant. (Hurst and Blackett.

6s.)—A Soul Apart is a story suitable for the Roman Catholic young person. It begins and ends in a convent. The writing is pretty, but the plot is exceedingly weak. The heroine marries a Protestant, and after some years of unhappiness, borne with much fortitude, is delivered from him—as she thinks—by death. The husband turns up again, however, at an inopportune moment. Luckily he is very ill, and only lives just long enough for his wife to convert him. After he is dead the widow is terribly torn in her mind between the attractions of a conventual life and those of a fervent and philanthropic lover belonging to her own faith. The best thing in the book is the sketch of the life led by the nuns at " Eastborough."