SOURCE: "A Strange Tale by Glenway Wescott," in The New York Times Book Review, December 1, 1940, p. 7.

In the following review of Wescott's novella The Pilgrim Hawk, Woods notes the symbolic value of the hawk in the story, concluding "it is a story of love versus freedom. "

The Pilgrim Hawk is the first piece of fiction to come to us in a decade from the Wisconsin writer whose novel, The Grandmothers, won both the Harper Prize and conspicuous general success. If Glenway Wescott's name has taken on a somewhat legendary suggestion in the intervening years, that atmosphere will probably be enhanced rather than dispelled by his latest book. This novelette, in other words, is a strange little story, the product of an intensely individual mind. Its scene is the softly beautiful French countryside of the Seine-et-Oise; its principal characters are British and American; its time is the Nineteen Twenties...