Other Books

LETTERS IN CANADA: 1951 313 vlii, 200 pp., $4) . McNEILL ( LEISHMAN)' Tales of the old town: Calgary, 1875-1950 (Calgary, Calgary Herald, 92 pp., 35c.) . MANITOBA, D EPT. OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE, BUREAU OF TRAVEL AND PUBLICITY, Historical Manitoba (Winnipeg, King's Printer, 32 pp.). MAXWELL ( LILIAN ), 'Round New Brunswick roads (Toronto, Ryerson, xvi, 191 pp., $3.50). *PETERS (R. S.) and *BURLEIGH (T. D.), The birds of Newfoundland; ill. by *ROGER TORY PETERSON (Boston, Houghton Mifflin in association with Dept. of Natural Resources , Newfoundland, xx, 431 pp., ill., $6 ) . PETERS (W. AUSTIN), Feathers preferred: a sportsman's soliloquy (Harrisburg, Pa., Stackpole; Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, x, 198 pp., $4.50). RINFRET (THIBAUDEAU), We are all Canadians (Duncan & John Gray memorial lecture; Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 15 pp.). Ross (MURRAY G.), The Y.M.C.A. in Canada: the chronicle of a century (Toronto, Ryerson, xviii, 517 pp., $6) . Roy (MAUlUCE), The parish and democracy in French Canada; French and English on opposite pages (Duncan & John Gray memorial lecture; Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1950, 37 pp.,75c.) . ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, Canada in picture and story; preface in English, Swedish, Gennan and Italian (Montrcal, the Bank, Head Office, 31 pp., ill. ) . *SCOTT (PETER), Wild geese and Eskimos: a journal of the Perry River expedition of 1949; photographs by *PAUL QUENEAU (London, Country Life; New York, Scribner; Toronto, British Book Service, 254 pp., $4.25). *SMYTHE (FRANK S.), Climbs in the Canadian Rockies (New York, Norton; Toronto, McLeod, x, 260 pp., ill., $6). SNYDER (L. L.) Ontario birds; illustrations by T. M. SHORTT (Toronto, Clarke Irwin, x, 248 pp., $4.50). SPARUNG (Mrs. R. B.), Reminiscences of the Rossburn pioneers (Rossburn, Man., Rossburn Women's Institute, c/o treasurer, Box 114, 131 pp., $1.50). *STEPHENS (I. M.), A novice in Canada (Calcutta, India, Statesman Printing Press, 34 pp.) . TORONTO, BOARD OF EDUCATION, Centennial story: the Board of Education for the City of Toronto, 1850-1950; prepared by the staff of the Board, under the direction of E. A. HARDY, HONORA M. COCHRANE, editor (Toronto) Nelson, 1950, xii, 306 pp.) $3.50). TRAIL GOLDEN JUBILEE SOCIETY. Trail, B.C., a half century, 1901-1951 (Trail, the Society, 48 pp., ill.). *TwEEDsloIUIR, LORD, Hudson's Bay trader (London, Clerke & Cockeranj Toronto, Ambassador Books, 176 pp., $3.75 ). WELLS (K. M.) , Up Medonte way; drawings by LUCILLE OILLE (Toronto and Vancouver, Dent, xviii, 247 pp., $4.50). WINTEMBERO (W. J.), Folk-lore of Waterloo County, Ontario (Canada, Dept. of Resources and Development, Development Scrvices Branch, National Museum of Canada, bulletin no. 116, Anthropological series 28; Ottawa, King's Printer, 1950, viii, 68 pp.). WOMEN'S CANADIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO, Colborne Lodge, High Park, Toronto, Canada, first occupied December 23rd, 1837 (Toronto, the Society, Carr. Seer., Miss K. Symons, 68 Avenue Rd., 8 pp.) . WOODSTOCK COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Woodstock College memorial book (Toronto, the Association, c/o Secr., P. J. Harwood, 62 Balsam Ave., 165 pp.). 5. Other Books THE EDITOR AND OTHERS The only military book received this year is a regimental history of the Highland Light Infantry of Canada in the Second World War, compiled by J. F. Bartlett. Professor H. N. Maclean of the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, who for several years has written the QUARTERLY'S survey of war books, contributes the foIIow- 314 THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY ing review of 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry of Canada, 1940-1945. This history is written as straight reportage; its style is consciously restrained as with most work of this sort following the salutary example of Hilary St. George Saunders whose books appeared in the war years. The volume has particular interest in that it is apparently the first published regimental history of an infantry battalion belonging to the 3rd Canadian Division, Canada's representative in the 1944 invasion of France. The events of June and July of that year, when this division fought continuously, are described with some care and as completely as in most regimental histories. Special emphasis is placed on the operations around Buron, where the Highland Light Infantry was heavily engaged. The book will appeal primarily to veterans of the unit, but lists of dates...