11 DECEMBER 1926, Page 30

Fiction

THE YOUNG DUKE. By Benjamin Disraeli. (Peter Davies. 10s. 6d. net.)-The Duke was so gay, so elegant, so rich, so witty ! And though he reforms in the end, marries an angel and attends to his estates, it is in the time of his fashionable escapades and triumphs that Disraeli was most interested. The novel is lightly cynical and sentimental, written with an astonishing command of epigram and neat phrasing. It is not so solid a success as Vivian Grey, but, even so, the deftness and charm remain inimitable.