Books: Pilgrim's Progress

INTERIM—R. C. Hu+cninson—Farrar & Rinehart ($2).

The British artillery sergeant and his squad had got lost on maneuvers. It was the dead of night when they tramped into the muddy, rainswept courtyard of what they thought was an abandoned English country house. But desolate Orchilly House turned out to be crammed to the eaves. The intruding sergeant was met by the politically leftish daughter of the house, Virginia, who had been running the place ever since she ran away from her dull and snobbish husband. In one of the bedrooms lay Virginia's once-beautiful mother—an...