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358 THE UNIVE'RSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY Canadians as the Balaches of Brantford, George Kapiotis of Victoria, and Dr Petros Constas Constantinides of Toronto. Another important reference work is Alexander Luhowy's Famous Women of the Ukraine, a chronological Who's Who of celebrated Ukrainian women, covering a period of about one thousand years. Approximately two hundred biographies are given, ranging in length from three lines to six pages. It is not uninteresting to find, among the prominent Ukrainian writers in Eastern Europe, a' Valeria O'Connor Vilinska, a representative of a considerable Irish j ntermixture among the people of the Ukraine. Still other writings of 'the year are two tracts for the times by the Rev. Jacob H. Janzen (The Sex Problem and Life and Death), dealing with social evils. and the importance of ideals of purity, and a bilingual prayer-book, Ukrainian and English, edited by the Rev. A. Luhovy for the Greek Catholic Church in Western Canada. BIBLIOGRAPHY Hlynka (Anthony), Struggle of freemen (Detroit, Ukrainian Cultural Society, 28 pp.). Janzen (J. H.), Lebenund Tad (Ger. "Life and death"; Waterloo, mimeographed by author, 32 pp.), Das Sexuelle Problem (Ger. "Sex ' . problem"; Waterloo, mimeographed by author, 32 pp.). Johnson .(Jacobina ), Sa eg svani (Ice!. "1 saw swans"; Reykjavik, Thorhallur Bjarnason, 39 pp.). Kowbel (Simeon), Parubochi Mriyi, Fantaziya-drama v. 4~okh diyakh (Ukr., "Youthful dreams, fantasy-drama in 4 acts"; Winnipeg, privately printed, 62 pp.). Luhovy (A.) ed., Prayer book (Winnipeg, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, 34 pp. in Ukrainian, 30 pp. in English). Luhowy (Alexander ), Vyzachne Zinostvo Ukrayiny (Ukr. "Famous women of Ukraine"; Toronto, Ukrainian Publishing Co" 251 pp.). Mandryka (M. 1.), Cherez morya i okeany" Chastyna I (Ukr. "Through sea and ocean, vol. I"j Winnipeg, Canadian Ukraiman Edu~ational Association, 67 pp.). Paluk (William), Canadian Cossacks (Winnipeg, Canadian Ukrainian Review Publishing Co., 130 pp.). Vlassis (G. D.), Greeks in Canada (Ottawa, privately printed, 147 pp.). VI. REMAINING MATERIAL THE EDITORS AND OTHERS As in other years this essay is divided into four sections. (i) -The first section reviews books in the field of Canadian History; books which fall within the categories of Narrative and Descriptive Writing .about the Canadian scene; and some which find their chief interest in Education or Religion. (ii) The second section is concerned with Scholarship, mainly in the Humanities, and includes notes by several different contributors. (iii) The third section gives an account of books in the Social Sciences and in the field of Inter-' national Relations. (iv) The final section is devoted to books dealing either directly or indirectly with the war. LETTERS IN CANADA: 1942 359 I , . The most important historical work to appear during the year is the first 'Volume o(Morden H. Long's A History of the Canadian People. The first volume deals with New France; the projected work, when complet~d, ,will be a full-dress history of Canada. Professor Long is careful to explain in his foreword that his history makes no pretensions in the primary field of research: "it is an essay in the secondary field of interpretation 'only, an attempt to tell the story 'C?£ the Canadian people in the light of our pr~sent knowledge." While this work must be, in part, a retelling of events and of ,historical processes and relationships often narrated before now in the pages of the classics of Canadian history from Parkman to George M. Wrong, the author is justified in his b'elief that every ,age is entitled to its own reinterpretation of the facts of history: Hif history is to mean anything to the generality of men there must be periodical attempts at synthesis and, interpretation, and it is as such that this work is offered." In the fifteen years since the puhli- . cation of Profes'sor Wrong's The ,Rise and Fall of New France, for instance, the turmoil of "global" war has caused historians to place 'a new emphasis on geographic interpretation's of history and we have even had a new word for an old idea, "geopolitics," forced upon the forefront of our attention. .It is, therefore, a sign of the times that Professor Long should begin his volume with a chapter on...