Biographical, Critical, and Miscellaneous Writings

-- --~-~--~~~~----------,.-----296 THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY Public Libraries and University of Toronto Press, 264 pp., $1.00). SASKATCHEWAN, ARcHIVEs BoARD~ Third report for the period June 1, 1947. to· May 31, 1948 (Regina, King's Printer, 1948, 31 pp.). 'SETTON (K. M.), Oatalan domination of Athens 13-11-1388 (Cambridge, Mass., Mediaeval Academy of America, 1948, xvi, 323 pp., $7.50). *SIEGFRIED (ANDRE), Canada, an international power; tran·s. from the French by *DoRis HEMMING; rev. ed. (London, Jonathan Cape; Toronto, Clarke Irwin, 283 pp., $3.25). SMITH (A. E.), All my life: an autobiography (Toronto, Progress Books, 224 pp., 60c. paper, $3.00 cloth). SMITH (GoLDWIN), A history of Eng- land (New York, .Scribner; Toronto, Saunders, xiv, 877 pp., $7.00). *TALBOT (F. X.), Saint among the Hurons: the life of Jean de Brebeuf (New York, Harper; Toronto, Musson, x, 351 pp., $3.75). *TEBBEL (JoHN) ed., The battle for North America; ed. from the works of FRANCIS PARKMAN (New York and Toronto, Doubleday , 1948~ xi, 746 pp., $9.00). THOMSON (WATSON), Pioneer in community: Henr.i Lasserre's contribution to the fully cooperative society; with a foreword by HENRIK F. INFIELD (Toronto, Ryerson, xvi, 123 pp., $2.00). WALLACE (W. S.) ed., T-he Royal Canadian Institute centennial volume, 1849-1949 (Toronto, the Institute, x, 234 pp.). WARIUNGTON (C. J. S.) and NICHOLLS (R. V. V.) compilers for the CHEMICAL INSTITUTE OF CANADA~ A history of chemistry in Canada (Toronto, Pitman, x, 502 pp., - $4.50). WINTEMBERG (W. J.), The Middleport prehistoric village site (National Museum of Canada, Bulletin no. 109,- Anthropological series, no. 27; Canada, Department of Mines and Resources, Mines and Geology Branch, 1948, vi, 79 pp.). V. BIOGRAPHICAL, CRITICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS THE EDITOR AND OTHERS This final section of the survey of English-Canadian letters is the work this year of about a dozen contributors, half of whom have written reviews of one book only. Once again the plan has been adopted of introducing· sub-headings (with arabic numbers) to indicate the different areas in the section and the principal reviewer in each sub-section. 1. Biography and Autobiography THE EDITOR In this sub-section, the review of Harry Hussey's Venerable Ancestor: The Life and Times of TzJu Hsi, 1835-1908) Empress of China has been contributed by Professor L. C. Walmsley of the Department of East Asiatic Studies..Another biography, Mackenzie King of Canada by H. R. Hardy, is noticed in Section IV, among the Social Studies. Two other volumes are noticed in sub-section 4, "Books on Art": biographies of E. Grace Coombs and Katherine E. Wallis. Tom Cullen of Baltimore by Judith Robinson is a biography of the distinguished surgeon and gynaecologist of Johns Hopkins who went, as a young graduate in medicine, from Toronto to Baltimore in 1889, like William Osler before him, and, except for a period of study abroad, has been, happily at work there since. In the first seventy-five pages, which tell of his ...