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Religious Novels. Nineteen forty-three was also a year in which religious novels crept into the top brackets of fast-selling fiction. Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, published the year before, was the No. 1 U.S. fiction best-seller for eleven months, was then nosed out by John P. Marquand's So Little Time (sales of The Robe to date: 680,000 copies). Sholem Asch's The Apostle is now No. 4 bestseller...
...Robe ($2.75) is a simple, 700-page novel laid in the time of Christ, by a prolific writer of moral tales whose messages are so direct and earnest that they embarrass most reviewers. The Apostle ($3) is a fictional reconstruction of the life & times of St. Paul...
...Best-sellers No. 1, 2 and 3, respectively: So Little Time, by John P. Marquand; The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith...
...robe and white, horsehair wig, Sir Oscar Bedford Daly looked like Oliver Cromwell. The Chief Justice of His Majesty's Supreme Court for the Bahamas was taking testimony in longhand. Before him, at two curved tables, the inner and the outer bar, sat the wigged Crown Counsel and the Defense Attorneys. Their robes were black. Beyond them lolled a dozen U.S. newsgatherers and the 105 black & white citizens of Nassau who had come early enough to get seats. At one side of the shabby, formal room sat the prisoner at the bar, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny...
...Fayette Black strode into the Supreme Court Chamber and sat down, cracking a precedent as he did so. Attorneys decently averted their eyes; a court clerk whispered into the Justice's-ear. Out scurried Justice Black, at length floated in again, now properly swathed in his black judicial robe...