EMMANUEL
Vol LXVI No. 7-8 July-August, 1960

The Mission

Reviewed by John J. Fritscher (Jack Fritscher)

“The Mission,” the touching story of a motherless Haitian girl’s search for her non-existent father is, in truth, a little classic of the spirit.

The story is delicacy and simplicity well-met with innocence; but it is also the most beautiful of allegories as six-year-old Yolande St. Juste fades and becomes Everyman treading the road of life as best she can, distracted only by goodness from the quest of beauty.

With subtle homeliness rarely equaled since Steinbeck’s The Pearl, Hugh B. Cave mesmerizes the reader with a universality which could be reflected only in the guileless eye of a humble child.

This story which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post will provide hours of thought- provoking and soul-searching meditation for the discriminating reader who wills to perceive the depths of its charming and disarming pages.

©1960, 2002 Jack Fritscher

Hugh B. Cave. Doubleday and Company, New York, N.Y. 1960.
Pp. 31. $1.50