Letters in Canada: 1947

'LETTERS IN CANADA: 1947 .Edited by J. R. MAcGILLIVRAY IN this the first issue of ((Letters in Canada" since Professor A. S. P., Woodhouse retired from the editorship, h1s successor may be allowed . a few lines merely to record the fact that an annual check-list and survey of Canadian letters to be published in the April issue of the QuARTERLY was Mr. Woodhouse's ·idea thirteen years ago, and the passage of_ time has shown that it was an excellent one. From the beginning the project has had hoth an immediate and a more remote purpose. It was hoped that the surveys would be of direct interest to our~ readers, and it- was expected that the annual lists (and, to some extent, the surveys also) would be of considerable value to· later students of Canadian culture. . There is some reason to believe that both these ends are being achieved. The ge~eral scheme of "Lett~rs in Canada: 1947" is almost the same as in former years. Professor Brady's survey of scholarship in, the social sciences has. been printed separately (rather than as part of "Remaining Material"), and Section V has been sub-divided to mark off clearly some of its principal fields. It is a matter for regret that it has proved impossible to include all . of "Letters in Canada"- in the April issue: the surveys' of . French-Canadian and New-Canadian Letters are being held over for July. Our thanks are again due to the publishers for their friendly co-operation; ' to the University Library for bibliographical assistance, and to Miss 'Francess· Halpenny 'of the editorial staff of the U~iversity Press for preparing · all the check-lists except those for drama and · New-Canadian literature. I would also add my own gratitudf' to Professor C. ·T. Bissell for allowing himself to ·be persuaded to take over the survey of fiction. PART I: ENGLISH-CANADIAN LETTERS 1. POETRY E. K. BROWN The deatl,l of Duncan Campbell Scott at eighty-five ca'me in th~ last month of a year in which three of his book~ made their first appearance: a critique of the art ofW. J. Phillips, a selection from the poems of Archibald . Lampman, and The Circle of Affection, a miscellany of his own verse and prose. The new Lampman retains ahnost everything from. the selection of a quarter-century ago entitled Lyrics of Earth, adds a considerable number of poems from At the Long Sault (1943), and restores a few pieces which ~ have not been acc~ssible since the Memorial Edition of 1900 ceased to be teprinted. 'The introduction is substantially a reprint of\ that to the Memorial Edition (there are 'a few corrections of fact), which is on the whole the best of the many .tributes to Lampman's power that Scott -wrote in the course of the forty-eight years by which he survived his friend. 257 , / ...