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humanity and drama out of Swan Lake paradoxically injected precisely these qualities into Fokine's abstract ballet. Vinogradov's The Knight in the Tiger's Skin closed out the tour in an attempt to correct a few imbalances. "The Kirov isn't only classical, and the Kirov isn't emasculated," this work seems to say . The men , almost negligible in the rest of the works on the tour, are prominently featured and the choreography, if not radically modem, breaks from tradition often enough to appear unclassical . Despite flashy and effective sequences for the principals, the star of this work too remains the corps, both male and female. The story material (a twelfth-century epic narrative poem) moves Vinogradov to massed and often threatening group displays for sorcerers, warriors and tribespeople that owe a good deal to the Petipa-Ivanoff tradition of manipulating groupings which the company knows so well. I wonder if there isn't a hint of Diaghilev here too, an attempt to stun the west with an unexpected display of colour, barbarism and force, as Diaghilev overwhelmed Paris with the spectacle of the Polovtsian Dances in 1909? For the principals, the men especially, the choreography is athletic and gymnastic; it displays a lithe body rather than a sure technique. ConNew Books 4. Culture and the Arts Morley, Patricia. Kurelek. Toronto: Macmillan, 1986. 352p. Cloth $34 ~95. Narvaez, Peter, and Martin Laba, eds. Media Sense: The Folklore-Popular Culture Continuum. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1986. 168p. Cloth $17.95 US; paper $8.95US. Watmough , David. Unlikely Pioneer : Building Opera from the Pacific Through the Prairies. Oakville: Mosaic, 1986. 186p. 172 sequently, it makes a greater impact with less material than do the classical roles. The obligatory bow has been made to versatility, but no one would pretend that this kind of work will supplant the classics at the core of the Kirov repertoire. It has been twenty-two years since the Kirov last appeared in North America, more than half the lifespan of the National. Comparisons between the two companies would be invidious, but perhaps one minatory comment may be allowed. As the departure represented by The Knight in the Tiger's Skin brings into prominent relief, the Kirov, as a classical company , commands the classical repertoire and, despite any eccentricities of style, can claim it authoritatively as its own. Erik Bmhn had set the National on a carefully planned course of redesigning its repertoire, keeping its focus on the classics but radically changing its attitude towards the modems. To give the National a territory it can claim as its own was presumably a part of his goal, but it remains the unfulfilled portion of his legacy. The company's new artistic administration will need to plan creatively , not simply inherit, if it is to realize that goal. JAMES E. NEUFELD Trent University 5. Economics, Business Daly , D.J. , and D.C. MacCharles. Focus on Real Wage Unemployment . Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 1986. 124p. Paper $5 .00. Hunter, W.T. Canadian Financial Markets. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1986. 193p. Stanbury, W.T. Business-Government Relations in Canada. Toronto: Methuen , 1986. 678p. Paper $29.95 . 6. Education Egan, Kieran. Teaching as Story Telling. Revue detudes canadiennes Vol. 21, No. 3 (Automne 1986 Fall) London, Ont.: Althouse Press, 1986. 122p. Paper $5.95. Miller, Henry. The Long Road to Reform : Restructuring Public Education in Quebec. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. l 70p. Cloth $25.00; paper $10.95. 7. Environmental and Resource Studies Keating, Michael. To the Last Drop: Canada and the World's Water Crisis. Toronto: Macmillan, 1986. 288p. Cloth $26.95. 9. History Armstrong, Christopher, and H.V. Nelles. Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. 393p. Cloth $34.95US. Berton, Pierre. Vimy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986. 336p. Cloth $24.95. Brault, Gerard J. The French-Canadian Heritage in New England. Montreal/ Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. 282p. Cloth $35.00; paper $15.95. Broadfoot, Barry. The Immigrant Years: From Europe to Canada 1945-1967. Vancouver: Douglas & Mcintyre, 1986. 240p. Cloth $22.95. Bryce, Robert B. Maturing in Hard Times: Canada's...