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SOCIAL STUDIES 479 Report (pp. 228, $1.95)t-which thus become available to students in abridged form but still at greater length than is possible in anthologies. Each volume is equipped with an editorial introduction of varying length and utility. The only word of criticism that can be uttered against this venture is that prices are about double those of comparable American scholarly reprints, limiting the possibility of these valuable works reaching the widest possible audience. LOCAL AND REGIONAL, II C. M. Craig The regional books under consideration in this section of the review deal mainly, although not entirely, with Quebec and Ontario themes, and we also have some titles that cut across regional boundaries. Before turning to the central provinces, however, we must look first at the most substantial and important historical work in this group of books. W. S. MacNutt's New Brunswick, A History: 1784-1867 (Macmillan of Canada, pp. xvi, 496, $8.50) has already taken its place as one of the best of our provincial histories, to rank with W . 1. Morton's Manitoba and Margaret Ormsby's British Columbia, although unlike these two, MacNutt's book stops at 1867. He explains that too little basic research has been done on the later period "to enable any scholar to proceed much further in an authoritative manner." All must agree that Professor MacNutt is indeed authoritative for the years down to Confederation. Basing himself solidly on extensive and arduous archival research, he has told the story of New Brunswick's development from its Loyalist beginnings through the rise of the lumber trade to the corning of self-government and the encounter with the Confederation movement. H e has kept his focus on political history, but he is always aware that economic, social, and religious factors must be described if politiCS is to be comprehensible. And he always keeps the reader aware of New Brunswick's relations with the outside world, something that authors of provincial histories sometimes fail to do. Professor MacNutt's account is rich in detail, yet one theme predominates . It is that politics was based on local interest, and that the legislators who came to Fredericton were determined to keep control of the spending of public money rather than surrender this power into the hands of the executive. This parochial approach, "the historic indiscipline of New Brunswick legislators," which could be traced back to habits in tSee also p. 461. 480 LEITERS IN CANADA: 1963 the pre-revolutionary American colonies, meant that the practical working out of responsible government in the 1840's was a development to be resisted rather than welcomed by the provincial politicians. Thus, reform came reluctantly and "excited no clamour, no general elation." Altogether , Professor MacNutt's treatment of responsible government is one of the freshest and shrewdest ever done by a Canadian historian on this well-worn subject. Turning to the central provinces,.we come first to a sumptuous picturebook on Canada's greatest city: Charles P. de Volpi and P. S. Winkworth, Montreal: Recueil Iconographique / A Pictorial Record, 1535-1885 (Dev-Sco Publications, Ltd., 2 vols., xii, xvi, 311, $25.00). The two volumes contain some four hundred prints and illustrations, most of them full-page, chosen to portray the historical, social, religiOUS, and commercial background of the city. All of the text, including captions usually taken from contemporary descriptions, is given in both French and English. The whole effect is most pleasing, but we should note that, despite the dates in the title, it is Victorian Montreal that is depicted here: there are only a couple of items on the French regime, and we reach 1830 after the twentieth plate. The earlier drawings present the work of some well-known artists, such as Bartlett and Krieghoff, while the later ones draw heavily upon such periodicals as the lllustrated London News and the Canadian lllustrated News. They show us many imposing edifices, some that have persisted and others that, mercifully, have since been torn down. We see the port and the Victoria Bridge, the Crystal Palace of 1860 and the Ice Castle of 1885; we see horse racing and curling scenes, imposing factories and commercial establishments...

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