JOURNEYMAN—Erskine Caldwell—Viking Press ($4.50).
It has always been a nice problem in the past to determine where realism leaves off and burlesque begins in Erskine Caldwell's novels (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre). But this new Caldwell story will not give many readers trouble, for it reads throughout like a complete travesty of the author's previous method. Journeyman is the story of an itinerant preacher. Semon Dye, the "potentest" man that ever drove a ramshackle remnant of a Model T Ford down a Georgia turnpike. Semon is a crap-shooting, corn-guzzling, philandering highbinder with a gimlet eye...