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312 THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY IV. REMAINING MATERIAL THE EDITOR AND OTHERS In this essay it is impossible to adhere strictly to the divisions in the Lists. (i) The first section reviews the books, most of them b· earing on the Canadian scene, which fall in the categories of Narrative and Descriptive Writing, including Biography, and some which find their chief centre of interest in Religion or Education. (ii) The second section gathers up what must be said of Criticism and of Scholarship in the Humanities, and includes notes by several different contributors. (iii) The third division consists of Professor A. Brady's review of more or less technical studies in the Social Sciences, Canadian :field. (iv) The final section, su.pplied by Mr Ph1lip Child, deals mainly with writings on Current Affairs and Problems, which, more even than in the two previous years, rriea:n the war. I Three attractive books on Canada as a whole appeared in 1941. Most important among these is a little volume contributed to the Oxford University Press's new series "The World Today": The Canadian Peoples by B. K. Sandwell. Its primary aim is to set in their proper perspective the current problems arising from the Dominion's mixed population, and in so doing it suggests a convincing way of tracing the dominant pattern of Canadian history. For Mr Sandwell refuses to centre attention, as did our older historians , mainly on constitutional issues (whether of responsible government , confederation, or national status) or, in the manner of some of our younger historians, to re-read everything in terms of economics . Constitutional .and economic questions are subordinated to the character and motives of the chief racial groups, and notably, of course, the English and the French. These, as they work themselves out within the controlling framework of Canadian geography, colour the constitutional, the economic and the cultural issues, and give the pattern its peculiarly Canadian character. It is a brilliant essay,lsane in judgment, and a beautiful example of lucid exposition. La.dy Tweedsmuir's Canada is likewise contributed to a series: uThe British Commonwealth in Pictures." There are forty-four illustrations in colour or black and white: some of them reproductions of paintings, crayons, woodcuts, etc., by Canadian or visiting artists, others from photographs. To accompany these Lady Tweedsmuir LETTERS IN CANADA~ 1941 313 has written a brief sketch of Canadian history, "A Bird's Eye View of the Provinces," and an estimate of the uCan~dian Way of Life." There is small room for detail, and profound observations would be out of place in such a work. But for those who know little of Canada it is a pleasant and useful introduction; and for Canadians it has another appeal. Like her distinguished husband, Lady Tweedsmuir won our esteem and affection by entering so fully into our life and aspirations. This little book is an outcome and an epitome of the spirit in which Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir dwelt among us and as such wiH find a welcome from every Canadian reader. A much more extensive survey of the Dominion, province by province, is afforded in Here's to Canada! by Dorothy Duncan, an American by birth, but a Canadian by marriage and residence. No year goes by now without volumes in aid of the American tourist; but this is a distinctly superior effort. It contains a great deal of information, most of which is reliable, and some suggestions for additional reading. But its avowed end is portraiture: we are given what is virtually a character sketch of each of the provinces. Such a book, as the author remarks, can be written only in the first person. She is to be congratulated on her control of this method and even more on her possession of a mind naturally objective, so that the portraiture never deteriorates into self-portraiture. She does not get between us and the subject or afflict us with a determined spirit of gay adventure, as is the usual way with her kind. A good deal of unobtrusive art goes to the making of the book, ~owhere seen to better advantage than when occasionally she int~o­ duces the companion of...

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