Books: Jungle Healer

WHITE WITCH DOCTOR (276 pp.)—Louise A. Stinetorf—Westminster ($3).

It is by no means certain that the cover artist for White Witch Doctor read the book. The red-lipped, white-helmeted girl on the jacket looks like a dewy-eyed deb on safari; actually, the heroine is a medical missionary in her 40s. The book is also called a novel and is offered as such by the Literary Guild. In sober fact, few fiction writers have ever displayed less control of the novelist's art than Author Louise Stinetorf. Nonetheless, her story of missionary life in Africa has enough...

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