12 MAY 1906, page 26

C Urrent Literat Ur,e.

MR. BELLOO'S ALGERIAN IMPRESSIONS. Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions. By H. Belloc. (Duckworth and Co. 6s. net.)—What is it that Mr. Belloc wishes to be perpetua ?......

Novels.

FENWICK'S CAREER.* MRS. HIIMPHRY WARD'S new novel, apart from its intrinsic excellences of style and matter, derives an added interest from the brief preface in which she......

An American Duchess. By Arabella Kenealy. (chapman And...

reader will suffer a good deal of disappointment if he takes up this book thinking, on the faith of the title, that he is about to have presented to him a subtle analysis of the......

Mr. John Strood. By Percy White. (a. Constable And Co.

68.)—This is an exceedingly clever book, but it is also exception- ally irritating. It is written in what one may call the oblique style of tuuTative, the figure of the hero,......

The Light. By Mrs. Harold E. Gorst. (cassell And Co.

6s.)— Roughly speaking, Mrs. Gorst's new book deals with the same subject as Mr. George Moore's novel, published about twelve years ago, "Esther Waters." There is nothing......

The Labourer's Comedy. By Maud Stepney Rawson. (a. Con-...

and Co. 6s.)—We have often had occasion to praise the delicacy and truth of Mrs. Rawson's work. Her new novel carries the reader into an atmosphere very different from that of......