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278 THE UNIVERISITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY CHECK-LIST OF TITLES ALLEN (-SoL), Toronto doctor (Toronto, Rock Publishing Co., 72 Carlton St., viii, 390 pp., $3.75). BERESFORn-:-HowE (CONSTANCEL The invisible gate (New York, Dodd Mead; Toronto, McClelland & .Stewart, x, 241 pp., $3.50). BIRD ;(W. R.), The passionate pilgrim (Toronto, Ryerson, viii, 324 pp., $3.25). BIRNEY (EARLE), Turvey : a military picaresque (Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, x, 288 pp., $3.25). BROCKIE (WILLIAM), Tales of the Mounted (Toronto, Ryerson, viii, 182 pp., $2.75). BROOKER (BERTRAM), The robber: a tale of the time of the Herods (Toronto, Collins, viii, 307 pp., $3.00). CHILD (PHILIP), Mr. Ames against time (Toronto, Ryerson, vi, 244 pp., $3.00). CHRISTIE (RoBERT), Inherit the night (New York, Farrar Straus; Toronto, Clarke Irwin, v:i, 409 pp., $4.00). CLAY :(G. A.), Gina (New York, Pellegrini; Toronto, McLeod, 1948, 378 pp., $3.00). CoBURN (KATHLEEN), The grandmothers; with drawings by JoHN A. HALL (Toronto, Oxford, x, 233 pp., $3.00). GARNER (HuGH), Storm below ·(Toronto, Collins, xii, 227 pp., $3.00). HAm-BROWN (R. L.), On the highest hill (Toronto, Collins, 319 pp., $3.25). HEWITT (FosTER), "He shoots, he scores!" (Toronto~ Allen, viii, 145 pp., $1.25). HuGHES (IsABELLE), Time in ambush (Toronto, Collins, vi, 257 pp., $3.00). McDowELL (F. D.), The Champlain road; Huronian ed. (Toronto, Macmillan, xvi, 338 pp., $3.50). McEWEN . (JESSIE), Taltrees (Toronto, Ryerson, vi, 221 pp., $3.25). M~>.CMILLAN (DoN), Rink rat (Toronto, Dent, vi, 248 pp., $3.00). MARSHALL (RoSAMOND), Celeste (Toronto, McLeod, 242 pp., $3.25). MAYSE (ARTHUR), Perilous passage - (Toronto, Collins, 247 pp., $3.25). MEADE (E. F.), Remember me (Montreal, Re~ print Society of Canada, 318 pp., $1.50 to members). PERROT (IRENE), Cathedral windows (Phoenix, Ar.iz., .Sunland Publishers; Montreal, Palm Publishers, ii, 147 pp., $3.00). PETERSON (LEN), Chipmunk (Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, iv, 299 pp., $3.25). RADDALL (T. H.), Roger ,Sudden (.Montreal, Reprint Society of Canada, v.iii, 385 pp., $1.50 to members). RonB (W. H.), Thunderbird (Kingston, Abbey Dawn Press, 242 pp., $3.50). RoBERTS (C. G. D.), Forest folk; chosen and ecl. by ETHEL HUME BENNETT; ill. by JoHN A. HALL (Toronto, Ryerson, x, 237 pp., $2.75). RocHE (MAzo DE LA), The building of Jalna (Montreal, Reprint Society of Canada, vi, 373 pp., $1.50 to members); Mary Wakefield (Toronto, Macmillan, vi, 298 pp., $3.25). SLATER (PATRICK.), The yellow briar: a story of the Irish on the Canadian countryside (Montreal, Reprint Society of Canada, x, 293 pp., $1.50 to members). SYMONS (HARRY), Three ships west (Toronto, Ryerson, viii, 315 pp., $3.25) . WALKER (DAviD), The storm and the silence (Boston, Houghton Mifflin; Toronto, Allen, viii, 248 pp., $3.25). WEES (F. 'S.), Under the quiet water (Philadelphia, MacraeSmith -Co.; Toronto, Collins, 256 pp., $3.00). WHtTE (S. A.), Tempete sur le NordOuest ; French trans. of Northwest crossing (Rruxelles, Edns de la Paix) . WILSON (ETHEL), The innocent traveller (Toronto, Macmillan, x, 277 pp., $2.75). III. DRAMA VINCENT TovELL Gratien Gelinas (Fridolin) gave an important address, "Un Theatre National et Populaire," at the University of Montreal when he received an honorary degree for his remarkable work in the Canadian theatre. Fortunately, its text has been published.1 It is in no way to detract from 'tvL Gelinas' remarks to say that many of his views on the theatre in Cana1 L'Action -universitaire, Avril, 1949. LETTERS IN CANADA: 1949 279 da, here expressed, derive from the aesthetics of Copeau, Claudel, Jouvet, Gheon and other great leaders of the q10dern French theatre. Their ideas are inspiring a fruitful unity of purpose as well as (to a lesser degree) a unity of style in the French-Canadian theatre today which does not as yet exist elsewhere in Canada. M. Gelinas stresses a point of view well summed up in Jacques Copeau's remark: "II n'y aura de vrai theatre que le jour ou l'homme de ]a salle pourra murmurer les .paroles de l'homme de la scene en meme temps que lui et du meme creur que lui." Without pursuing the idea to its ultimately ritualistic and mystical implications, as Eric Bentley clid recently in...