Education

490 LEITERS IN CANADA: 1963 the majority of Canada's Second World War sailors for whom the sea was a new, strange, and frightening element. As facile with the pen as with the sword, Alan Easton writes the kind of narrative that makes good magazine reading and is also good documentary material. Here is a book that nO One who is interested in Canada at war should miss. EDUCATION Robin S. Harris Ten years ago six publications bearing upon education were reviewed in "Letters in Canada." Two of these (Uni11ersity College: a Portrait and Western, 1878-1953) appeared under "Social Studies," one (Father Tompkins of N011a Scotia) under "Biographical Writings," One (Dr. Cody of St. Paul's) under "Books on Religion," and two (Bibliographie analytique de la litterature pedagogique canadienne-fran,aise and Les Humanites greco-Iatines, idoles au vrais dieux?) under "Publications in French." A seventh-and at least in the short run the most significant, Hilda Neatby's So Little for the Mind-was reserved for a full review in a subsequent issue of UTQ. This year the number of books on education has risen to nearly twenty, and, as has been the case since 1958, they are discussed in a section of their own. This expansion, but equally this concentration, reflect the increasing importance of education in Canadian a£fairs and, as well, the growing complexity of its diverse but related aspects. Since it is clearly impossible to give detailed attention to twenty books in a brief annual review, it is fortunate that many of the works require only to be "noticed." If the title fully describes the scope of the work, and if it can be said that the treatment of the subject thus identified is thorough and competent, it is surely sufficient for our purposes simply to call attention to the book. In this category fall the follOwing: Frederick Enns, The Legal Status of the Canadian School Board (Macmillan of Canada, pp. xviii, 213, $4.50); Richard S. Lambert, School Broadcasting in Canada (University of Toronto Press, pp. x, 223, $5.00); John F. Snell, Macdonald College of McGill Uni11ersity: A History from 19041955 (McGill University Press, pp. xvi, 259, $5.00); James J. Talman , Huron College, 1863-1953 (London: Huron College, pp. xiv, 102, illus., $2.00); and Andre Vachon, Histoire du notariat canadien 16211960 (Quebec: Presses de l'Universit" Laval, 1962, pp. xxviii, 209, $4.00). We must add, however, that Talman's book is, despite the dearth of available source material of which he complains, an admirable college SOCIAL STUDIES 491 history, and that Vachon's book is as much a contribution to the cultural history of Quebec as to the history of its legal system. In a number of cases the title does not adequately indicate the scope of the work, and here a gloss on the title will suffice. Thus J. M. Paton's The Role of T eachers' Organizations in Canadian Education (Gage, pp. 89, $2.50) is both an historical outline of what the role of the teachers' organizations in each province has been (the key dates are 1914, 1935, and 1955) and an argument as to what that role ought to be in the future. Paton was the Quance Lecturer for 1962, and his book is the usual length for this significant series. The Lecturer for 1963, Samuel R. Laycock, was unable for reasons of health to deliver his lectures, but this has had the unexpected but happy result of producing a volume which is twice the normal length: Special Education in Canada (Gage, pp. 187, $2.00). It is doubtful that Dr. Laycock would have been able in two hour-long lectures to prov;de, as in fact he has, an analysis of what is being done and what ought to be done for Canadian children who are visually handicapped, acoustically handicapped, speech-handicapped , crippled, mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, delinquent, and gifted. He gives due attention to the last-mentioned group; too often in such reports the gifted are ignored. Five titles in the domain of higher education also require a gloss. A. H. Crowfoot's This Dreamer (Copp Clark, pp. x, 86, $4.50) is...