SOURCE: "Fiction," in The London Mercury, Vol. VIII, No. 44, June, 1923, p. 208.

In the following review, Priestley assesses that, despite some overly conventional elements, Love's Pilgrim is a worthy literary effort.

Foster Innes is the heir to a barony; he has a club-foot, and is extremely sensitive and reserved, and very much under the influence of a somewhat selfish and worldly mother. He it is who tells the story of his pilgrimage as a lover. He meets Tertia, a cool and pretty flirt, and adores her to no purpose. Then during the War he has a brief but unsatisfactory affair with Nita, who is roundeyed and clinging and engaged to half-a-dozen subalterns at once. Then his family almost but not quite throw him into the arms of Grace, a motherly young person, who unfortunately chooses to fall in love with someone else. Finally, Innes meets the daughter of a...