Word: pilgrimate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pilgrimages. July, not the Chaucerian April, is the month of pilgrim- age for American Roman Catholics. Several hundred New Englanders are arranging to go to Lourdes and Rome under the auspices of the Holy Name Society. The Pope will give them audience...
From those sad few of us who are struggling to flee from the Ulysses-Black Oxen-Jurgen mania, Francis Brett Young's latest book draws forth a sigh of relief. In "Pilgrim's Rest" there is realism to be sure, but it deals with the loneliness of the African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...
...only weaknesses in the book are the title and the end. Mr. Young should have been drawn the blind when the hero and heroine got married. "Pilgrim's Rest", is the title, and it looks suspiciously as if the sound of the name caught the fancy of the author, and was dragged in those twenty extra pages to give an excuse for being used as a title. However "Pilgrim's Rest" it is, and it is distinctly worth while reading...
...Nothing definite is known, except that the report seems to rely for its authenticity upon a statement made by an American Embassy official that Mr. Harvey wished to stay in America at the time of the Baldwin debt negotiations; and the Ambassador's preamble to his now famous Pilgrim speech in London, when he said: " I am utterly destitute of the traditional weapons of diplomacy...
...knitting on their jobs. What Senator Johnson will think of all this it is impossible to guess. Senators always go abroad with their bags well packed with preconceived conclusions and Mr. Johnson's are made of sturdy material. But the country will not have long to wait. The pilgrim will soon be home and the sparks will...