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None of Author Goudge's work seems labored; she writes with the spontaneity of a child. Goudge fans think that in her earlier novels-Green Dolphin Street, Pilgrim's Inn-she has already excelled herself, but The White Witch suggests that she has still not reached her peak...
...when he arrived in Rome in 1510 on a minor mission for his order, the young Augustinian monk of Wittenberg, Martin Luther by name, fell on his knees and cried: "Hail to thee, O Holy Rome!" Luther "went through all the devotions of a pilgrim . . . and earned so many indulgences that he almost wished his parents were dead, so that he might deliver them from purgatory...
Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which...
...looked like a hard winter for the Pilgrims. The Indians (outlanders from Oklahoma who showed up at Plymouth, Mass., to the considerable wrath of an authentic New England Indian who felt that his offshore rights had been poached) had been friendly, but among the company of the Mayflower II there was no Thanksgiving. The difficulty: a falling-out, mostly over wampum, among the Pilgrim Fathers. The tourist turnout was below expectations, and Captain Alan Villiers was kept busy soothing his crewmen. There were complaints that some of them had not been paid. In London, Lloyds Underwriter Felix Fenston...
...such pilgrim-the book's narrator -is Andrew Colquhoun, a youngish Scots drifter eager to pluck the heart from Clausen's mystery, write his biography and perhaps thereby come to terms with his own restless nature. Also on the way to Clausen is an odd trio of characters: a tropical tycoon named Zuckermann, who is playing the white man's last rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses...