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OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES. A proflle 01 biographer Elspeth Cameron. By John Goddard 9” PERSONAL OEOUCTIONS. The Canadian sleulh has become 4 central figure in crime licbon. By Wayne Grady 17 ROUY lANGUAGE. Female writing makes direcl use 01 personal experience more often lhan male wrking. Ry Libby Schemr 20 CRITICAL NOTICES. Brief rwlews of recent liclion. non-flclion. and poetry 30 LARGER THAN LIFE. John Grterson bmughl 10 his publlCCareer much more than an mlemst ln blm By I M. Owen WEZVOE33%3 THE PRIVATE CAPITAL: AMBITION AN0 LOVE II I THE AGE OF MACOONALO AN0 fAUGIER. by Sandra Gwyn JEAN LESAGE AN0 THE OlJl9T REVOLUTION. by WI“-‘e C. Thomson 84: BEST CANADIAN STORIES and COMING AllttAC ;TlONS 2. edlled by Uawd Hehwg and Sandra Mart,” YEARS OF IMPATIENCE: 1950 I-1900. by Gdrard Pellelier THE BOOK OF MATTHEW: THIE STORY OF A LEARNING OISAGLEO CHILD. by Belly Jana Wylie THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES: A HISTORY. by Gerald Frlesen FIELOING. by Dennis Cool9; AMGERGAl3 MOON. by Brenda Niskala: KISS ME DOWN TO SIZE. by Ken Rivard WE WEHT TO WAR: THE STORY OF THE JAPANESE CANADIANS WHO SERVED OURINS THE FIRST AND SECONO WORLD WARS. by Roy II0 BLACK WOLF: THE UFE OF ERNEST THOMPSON SEIDN. by Belly Keller 1944: THE CANADIANS IN NORMANDY. by Reginald H. RGY: GLOOGY VICTORY: CANADIANS AND THE D-DAY CAMPAIGN OF 1944. bv .t.L~ Granalslein and OesmorId Morton ADAM AND EVE IN MIDDI!E AGE, by Rona Murray: SHESA AND SOLOMON. by Karen Mulhallen GIG REAR: 1‘HE EN0 OF FREEGOY. by Hugh A. Dempsey GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL: THE STORY OF AN INVOLVEMENT. by Graham Greene SEEIUNG A BALANCE: UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN, 1907-1982. by Michael Hayden 3 FIELG NOTE3 40 INTERVIEW with Charles Rdchle. by George Gall ENGLISH, OUR ENGLISH, by Bob Blackburn 41 CANWIT NO. 100 3: FIRST NOVELS, by Albert4 Manguel 42 RECOMMENDED 42 RECEIVED aDG~iBnwl!lT~~ Mark Abley Is 4 Montreal-based poet and critic. Brad Adams IS a Tommo lreelance wriler wdh a spew mterest m hlstory and sporls Rob Blackburn’s corporate name Is Bob Slackburn Communlcalions. While Iaching al York Unwersily. Ramray Cssk has published The Mapte Lea/ Forever (Macmdlani and other works. Krlsty Eldredge is a Toronto freelance writer. The drawings in this nssueam the vmrk of Howard Engel. whose latest detectwe novel IS Murder Sees the l@d (Penguin). reviewed on page 91. Ray Flllp. our Ouebec conlribuling editor. IS at work on a noveL George Gall is ediling the Al Purdy-George Woodwck cor- respondence. James Gamtt is a naluralisl. and Mark Gerson a lreslance wriler m Tomnto. Our cover slmy and accompanying photographs are lmm the pen and camera of John Goddard. A IOrmer managing edllor of Books 111Canada. Wayne Grady perlorms Ihe same lunclion at Harmwsm~lh: ha translation. Christopher Carliwoltlazehur~. Is revlewd on page 23. Mlchlel Horn. who tsschss at Glendon College. IS mlerested in issues of academic lreedom Lorraine Johnson writes lor Tomrdo Parenf. Oavld Lstham Isaches English at the Universily of Lelhbndge. A transplanted Winnipegger. Stsvc Lsklts has taken mat m Kingston. Ont R4y Msclaen. a former federal cabinet mlnisler. Is the author 01 Canadians Behind Emmy Lines 1939-1945 (Universdy 01 British Columbia Press] Albells Mangsel has is progress a dramatic wsrk called The Kipling Hay. Gebn Martens is I freelance wraer in Momreal. Rsbln Melcdlls. a Haligoman. wrdss lor The Booy Fvlrhc Ilalhleen MDOre is a Montreal pnt. and editor of The Fmxpine Review: her most recent book is The Beast Unveded Eva Nichols 1s executwe director of the A~~~CI~IIOPfar Children with Learning DlsabillIles. Barbara Novak is a lreelanca wrder in London. OnI. John Oughton’s Gssrmg of Low was reviewed m our January-February issue. I.M. Owen Is a Tsmsto edilor and CriliC. Helan Penin and Sheris Psrerorrki am Tsronlo freelance wnters. Srsee Allsn Powo’s lourth novel. The Aborbatl Summer. is now available In Penguin. Veronka ROSS.an ex-MadtImer. recently published F~shsnvmnan(Pollerrbeld Prsss) Libby Scheler 1s a Tomnlo poet. A resldwd of North Ray. Oat.. Ken Stsnga iS sdltor of Nebula. Paul Stuswe operates Annex Books m Tomnlo and recently pubkshed Cksring fhe Ground (Pmper Tales Press). Lizs Vandermser Is a hiologis1wilh the Ontario Minlslry 01 the Environment. Barbara Wads 1s the editor 01 Newsweekly. EDITOR 0 Michael Smith MANAGING EDITOR 0 Fraser Sutherland ART OIRECTOR 0 Mary Lu Tams .‘. GENERAL MANAGER and AOVERTISING MANAGER 0 Susan Traer CIRCULATION MANAGER 0 Susan Aihoshi CONSULTANTS 0 Robert Farrelly 0 Jack Jensen CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 0 Eleanor Wachlel (West Coasl) 0 K.G. Pmbart (Prairies) 0 Alberlo Manguel 0 Shirley Knight Morris 0 Paul Wilson 0 Ray Fllip (Ouebec) 0 Terry Goldie (Easl Coasl) -------_- _~.~_._-.__.. _ .~__~ Scorning the excesses of 20th.century writin a new review seeks to reacquaint its readers with t ! e spirit of 18th-century journalism HE EDITOIUAL offices are io thae volumes on wooden shelves are the wall- Skvorecky. Gage Jonar, and Aubemn rooms,” says David Warren wiih paper of The Idler’s offices. The only Waugh but consists mainly of young, a sc’cep of his m. He moves visible paperback is a two-volume set of relative unknowns. Many contributions along the bamdstered corridor. John Locke’s 18th~century essays. don’t carry a byline but are part of a set- 1 “This is the room where paste-up The 18th ceniury, in fact, is the lion the editor calls ‘Yhe Idler’s Nota is done, and so forth. And this anceslral home of The Idler, inhabited book.” “We work out of apartments door ls shut because that’s our by essayists like Johnson. Addison, and and coffee shops in the way our bedroom.” Steele. The periodical from which The ancestors did - the periodical essayists It seems appropriate that the Idler takes its name was written by of the 18th century,” states the in- newly establishedoftices of The Samuel Johnson fmm 1758 to 1760 and troductory essay, “and like lhose Idler reside in publisher David inserted weekly in the pages of The gentleman-hacks of old. we are without Warren’s family home lo Toron- Universal Chronicle. Warren chose to secretaries to answer our ‘phones. The to, since he feels “a sort of pos&partum revive the name because Johnson is one capital for our veolure has ban raised depression” now that the fust issue is of hll favourite writers. He spent fmm our own pockets, and the necks we out. That issue is a saddle-stitched, “about a month last summer immersed expose are our own.” c The Tatler> The Idlers The Spectator, black-and-vrhlte paper of 32 pages and in When Warren is asked to expound five advertisements. one of which is for and so forth - completely negleciing upon lhe premise of The Idler, his reply The Idler itself. Warren refuses to the 24lth century - in order to teach ticks to an Enlllhtenmenr world ordered divulge the review’s paid clreuladon myself the spirit of ISth-centwy jour- by the Divine Clockmaker. “We believe unril a fev: months have passed. but he nalism.” in the philosophy of natural right,” he printed 5.290 copies of the first issue, a The excessa of 20th~century prose says. “the idea that there are such things number he hopes to triple - his target is and poe!xy horrify him. “I am tired of as good and bad, which mao cannot 15.150 - within three years. Al a cover know absolutely bur which he can Lry to price of $2.25, with a IZissue subs&p understand. We’re a bit sick of ZOth- tion going for 824, the target is ambi- century moral relativism.” But the tious -to say the least. writers of The Idler also believe in “the For January the tossed salad of lopies dialectical process. I’m not inlera%ed in included an assessment of the western producing a paper that becomes ‘us con- democracies’ knowledge of Depression- servadves versus those liberal%,” says era famine in the Soviet Union, reflec- Warren. “That’s a very mind-chilling tions on Ihe way music reaches our ears sort of thing.” through iostmment and eovimnment, Tweotieth-eenary eyes may have to and ao anonymous look ai the “Bland refocus occasionally when reading a Election.” The last begins. “The story that begins, “There was a time, Regressive Preservative Party swept all well within living memory, when musical regions of Canada to achieve the most taste and connoisseurship habirually - astounding political triumph ever relegated the usage of ancient instm- recorded by Barbara Fmm: menls and amane performance practice The publisher and parent of The Idler to the substatus of antiquarianism.” is a small “p” preservative himself. The reader somerimes finds himself on Warren is a stmlght-haired. bespectacled an exhausting hike when he stated on man of 31 who smokes a steady chain of an invigorating walk in the woods. cigarelles and says he likes to shock peo- open@ a book of a poet’s latest offer- Another ZOLh-cenhry lonovatlon The ple. His last full-Limejob abroad was as iog and seelog the word ‘shit’ in the mid- Idler could adopt is the occasional refer- editor of r paper called Bushess in dle of the page. I am even more thzd if ence to “girls” as “women.” Came to Tlkdhmd, and in Canada he has a he thinks he’s shocking me.” What he think of it, Dr. Johnson never called a ~putatlon primarily aa an economic appretiates are “stories operating on the female over 24l a girl, either.