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- University of Toronto Quarterly
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 27, Number 4, July 1958
- pp. 567-575
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LETTERS IN CANADA: 1957 567 Universitaires Laval, 1956, xii, 156 pp., $2.00) est un traite prepare pour les conseillers d'orientation, les psychologues, et les educateurs. L'reuvre n'a aucune pretention Ii I'originalite mais elle forme un utile compendium des lois et des regIes morales d'inspiration chn,tienne qu'i1 faut observer dans les techniques modemes psycho-p6dagogiques. Dans la collection Culture popuLaire de l'Universite Laval, mademoiselle Simone Pare a publie Groupes et service social (Presses Universitaires Laval, 1956, x, 280 pp., $3.00). C'est une etude technique fort utile aux travailleurs sociaux. Aux nombreux ouvrages qu'i1 a deja publies sur la nevrose, Andre La Riviere a ajoute Fautes a eviler en education (Montreal, Edns Psychologiques Enrg., 1956, 162 pp., $1.50). On y trouve des conseils vulgarises aux parents. Le troisieme cahier des Ecrits du Canada franr;ais (Montreal, 233 pp., $2.00) contenait un conte de Jean Simard intitule "Un depart," un essai de Michel Brunet sur "Trois domioantes de la pensee canadienne,fran- ~aise," des poemes de Roland Giguere, "Lieux exemplaires," .t{ une etude litteraire de Gilles Marcotte sur SaintCDenys-Garneau. Dans Ie onzieme recueil de Presentation de la Societe Royale du Canada, Section fran,aise, 1954-7 (Hull, Imprimerie Leclerc, 89 pp., $1.00), on trouve les discours qu'ont prononces les recipiendaires suivants et leurs parraios : Jean-Charles Bonenfant, Jean-Charles Falardeau, Robert Elie, Marcel Faribault, Jean-Jacques Lefebvre. La trente-quatrieme session des Semaines sociales du Canada (section fran,aise), tenue Ii Montreal en 1957, etait consacree a l'lnfluence de La presse, du cinema, de La radio et de La television. Le Compte rendu des cours et conterences (Institut Social Populaire, 242 pp., $2.50) contient d'ioteressantes etudes parmi lesquelles on peut signaler celie de Me Guy Roberge, directeur de l'Oflice National du film, sur Ie role et I'influence du cinema et celie de Lorenzo Pare sur l'evolution de la presse au Canada. PUBLICATIONS IN OTHER LANGUAGES Watson Kirkconnell With the exception of poetry and one powerful novel the year 1957 has little to show io the way of imagioative literature among the European Canadians. Scholarship of various sorts tends to outweigh all other publications put together. In terms of Parnassian technique, the veteran A. A. Granovsky leads the field with Autumn Tracery, his sixth volume of verse. Here are more than one hundred finely chiselled lyrics and sonnets. Most germane to the 568 PUBUCATIONS IN OTHER LANGUAGES present survey is his three-page "Amid Canadian Prairies"; but for a brief pastel one should perhaps quote (in translation) his eight-line "End of November": November's time is running Qut, The year grows ancient under frost's duress. The gloomy landscape seeks a change of dress; The first snow solves its doubt. A wondrous change the copses know; The stately woods, with fleecy branchlets dight, In the clear moonbeams glimmer through the night, And all the fields are snow. Another elderly Ukrainian poet, Mykyta Ivanovych Mandryka, has given us, in Golden Autumn, a collected edition of his poetry of the past half century. Some of the contents have already been reviewed in these pages. Among the newer poems, "Canada" (dated 1957) pays tribute to the land of his adoption. Its opening stanzas may be rendered thus: Land beyond all human measure, Lovely in thy race to come, Thou to sufferers givest pleasure, Thou to hapless souls a home. Thou, like Mother Ukrayina, Hast received us to thy breast; Thou from suffering's arena Hast redeemed us in thy West. ... His deepest poetical feeling is to be found in a section entitled "Songs of Anemona: A Symphony of Love," written between August 1916 and March 1917, where the author, then thirty years of age, pours forth a long sequence of amatory lyrics, Petrarchan in essence if not in form. Much more persistently political in tone is the work of a young Hungarian journalist, Tibor Baranyai. Born in 1925 in Szabolcs county, Hungary, he was early associated with the Social Democratic party and found it expedient after World War II to seek freedom abroad. He has made journalistic contributions to the socialist press in...