Books: Faith for Straphangers

NICODEMUS — Dorothy Walworth —Houghton Mifflin ($2.50).

Nicodemus ("he was the fellow who went to Christ in the middle of the night and wanted to know the lowdown. . . .") is the latest addition to the pious parade of current religious novels. Its appeal to readers is likely to lie less in its literary virtues than in its theme: the search for a valid religious faith by four despairing New Yorkers. They might be taken, together, as representing the common man. None of them had thought much about religion until World War II. Their...

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