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For Unsophisticated Unbelievers
Chevalier, Haakon M. | July 19, 1933 issue

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The article focuses on the book "A Calendar of Saints for Unbelievers," by Glenway Wescott. This book is likely to inspire in the gentle and cultivated reader a certain uneasiness. He will be puzzled as to why Wescott should have written it and why anyone should want to read it. It is a neat and charming volume containing a wealth of material delicately presented, and for the reader unfamiliar with saintly lore it will no doubt have an appeal. But as he reads on through pages of these thumb-nail sketches of human types of all kinds who, for good reasons and bad, have been sanctified by the Catholic church, he will find the author's point of view even more elusive than it is in the smirking foreword.

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CALENDAR of Saints for Unbelievers, A (Book); WESCOTT, Glenway; LITERATURE; CATHOLIC Church; HUMAN behavior; BOOKS
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