Books: Callaghan of Canada

A NATIVE ARGOSY—Morley Callaghan— Scribner's ($2.50) Last year Morley Callaghan of Canada wrote Strange Fugitive, and was promptly likened to Ernest Hemingway of Michigan for his brusque, compact style, intently modern. His characters, of middling low mentality; his incidents, grim and macabre in their humor, smacked of contacts as a newspaper reporter. This year Author Callaghan furthers his reputation by a collection of stories, one of which—far from the best—was included in The American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at...