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...prurient have been shocked by its plain speaking. F. P. A., of The New York World, was bored by it. So were Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, and Edmund Wilson, Jr., of The Dial. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby,_ of The Literary Review, regards it as " a new Pilgrim's Progress." His praise is not quite unqualified, but he says of Mr. Anderson: "If we are to have an American Hardy...
...PILGRIM-Chaplin as an escaping convict turned minister presents a gorgeously funny example of custard-piety. More slapstickery and less poignance than in Shoulder Arms or The Kid, but intensely amusing throughout...
Nutting: Furniture of the Pilgrim Century...
This new official recognition, combined with a little necessary livening up in the mental attitude, gives every assurance that the ghost industry of Great Britain can hope in the near future to compete on equal terms with the Mayflower relic monopoly in America, and, with Pilgrim spoons and Pilgrim shoebuckles being dug up in every corner of the States from Orono to Texarkana, even the most ambitious ghost could not hope for a brighter business forecast...
There are innumerable rewards in Boston for the pilgrim in search of historic tid-bits. Those who live in a place for long are apt to settle into indifference to the curiosities that others come many miles to see. Laziness is a feeble excuse, for there is always the "rubber neck wagon". Although the megaphone would announce a few things that do not need to be pointed out: "on our right we see the habitat of the Harvard Lampoon"--yet it would say much more that the college man has not heard outside of History 32: Bunker Hill Monument...