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. . Eyhg,s,kgE~~~;Jln% and 2p Nu&tr Energy, by Fred H. Knel- ARTICLES man 40 Broken Promises, by J. L. Gmnat- The Rebirth of Canada’s Indians, Facing (blush) Facts. Paul stein and I. M. Hitsmsn 30 by Harold Candinal; Paper Stuewe raises some disturb- ThePelicanHistory oFCanada, by Tomahawks, by James Burke; ing questions about the Kenneth McNaught; Canada Angry Society, by Colin Aleaau- accuracy of Colombo’s Since 1867, by J. L. Granatsteht ‘der 40 and Paul Stevens 31 Canodiurz References and The Anarchist Reader, edited by the integrity of the critics George Woodcock 31 DRPARTMENTS who reviewed it. 4 City Work at Country Prices, The Comparable Max. edited by Jennifer Harper 32 tntewiew with Termce Shoru. by Bill George Melnyk reassesses Canadian Wildflowers, by Mary B~lUillg I 41 Fergbson and Richard M. The Browser. by Morris Wolfe 42 the career of Prairie free On/Off/Set. by Len Oasparbd Saunders; Wildflowers OF First Impressions. by David Helwig z: lancer Max Braithwaite 9 Alberta, by R. G. H. Cormaclt; Latas 10 the Bdimr 46 Wildflowers Across the Gmwil No. 25 49 REVIEWS Prairies, by Fenton R. Vance, Books Received XI ;tuuf Jowsey, and James S. The Dianne Years, by Pierre Ber- 32 ILLUSTRATIONS ton 12 - Act oFGod. by Charles Templeton 15 Cwer&ograph of Ptt Benon by Bllw Tl~o~ulours OF War, by MaK Drawing by Bill Russell 16 Drawing by Howard Eye1 It: A Population oFOne, by Constance _ _ Drawings by Davtd Gilhooly Bercsford-Howe 3.16.18.22,29.36 Blx Jnurneys. by Charles Taylor :; The Retarded Giant, by Bill Mann; CONTRIBUTORS ;F Ear Greater By, by Ray --_. 18 Folklore OF Canada, edited by Edith Fowke; Ring around the moon. edited by Edith Fowke 20 The Lady Who Loved New York, by R. L. Gordon 28 ’ Birds in Peril, by John P.S. Mac- A Short History of Canadian kenzie; Wlld Birds of Canada English, by M. H. Scargill 21 and the Americas, by Terence Sine, Betty,. and the Morning Shorn; Rags oFthe World, by S. Man. by Donald Jack 22 Dilop Ripley; Fogswamp, by Mostly Monsters, by John Robert Trudy Turner and Ruth M. Colombo; Canada’s Monsters. McVei8h 34 by Betty Sanders Garner; RCAF: Squadrons and Aircraft, Ogopogo. by Mary Moon 23 by S. Kostenuk and J. Griffin 35 Extra Innings. by Raymond Sow No Safe Place, by Waruer Tmyer; ter. The Greenlanders’ Saga. by Grassy Narrows, by George George Johnston; Indian Hutchison 36 Summer, by R. 0. Everson 24 Dene Nation, edited by Mel New Provinces. introduced by Watkins; Moratorium, by Hugh Michael Gnarowski 24 and Karmel ‘McCullum; Contact Callsigns. by Robin Skelton; and Conflict, by Robin Fisher 37 Because OF Love, by Robin Skel- Encyclopedia of Indians OF Can- ton 28 ada, Volume I 38

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August-September. 1977. Books In Canada 3 A regretful revisionist takeSa closer look at Colombo’s References . . . and the critics who reviewed it by Paul Stuewe

TO NEX+UNANIMOUS acclaim, co- was reasonably welI-informed revealed them has been reversed, while the lmbo’s Canadian References was further errors, and at the risk of going David Clayton-Thomas entry conti~ses released in October of last year. If you against the grain of the reviewas’ the title of a single with that of a” album read Barbara Amiel’s review in co”sensus, I think it is time that a and then misdates the latter by two Ma&an’s, you learned that it had revisionist view of CCR was expressed. years. The Band is credited with join- become “a Basic Book by its very A close examination of the entries ing Ronnie Hawkins four years after existence”; if you read George dealing with popular music yields a they had i” fact become ssso&ed with Woodcock’s in The Canadian Forum, substantial number of mistakes. The him, although this is in a sense bd- you were informed that it “is a first-rate three Leonard Cohen albums listed are nnced when CCR has Neil Young handbook for a practising writer to have all misdated and the sequence of two of joining the group Buffalo Springfield at his elbow. and I shall be using it four years before he had actually be- constantly”: and if you read Hugh come a member. Garner’s in Books in Canuda, you w&e Another case of inaccurate precocity ossurcd that it was “worthy of joining occurs whenzalman Yanovslcy’s baud, its English and U.S. relatives on &ery the Lovin’ Spoonful., is de&bed as library. school, and home-reference “the top mck gmup m North America shelf, not only in Canada but also in 1964”; quite aremarkable feat, since throughout the world.” The message they did not make any records until seemed clear if I wanted to preserve 1965. The entry for Lighthouse omits my slim hopes of becoming a footnote the name of its co-founder and supplies in some future “History of Canadian information regarding the size and Literature.” I’d better get a copy of composition of the group that Is accu- Colonfbo’s Canadian References and rate for only three years of ik seven- start using it, pmnto. year existence. And national& fans of So I did. And since I’m currently the+ opera_Tommy will bedelighted working on preparing discographies h to learn that composer Peter (lists of recordings) on several’popular . Townshend is a member of the Guess Canadian performers, the first thing I did was to see if Colombo’s Canadian Rrfm~m-s (CCR, hereafter) contained any information that would in spell Townshend’s name correctly, - which CCR also falls to do. Since this litany of misdatings, omissions, and confusions threate”s to become somewhat boring, let me 4 summarize by saying that a majority of the contemporary-music entri&s have at I least one error. Sometimes these mis- _. ..-... .-. ._~_~-.-~~____~i-~_~_. _ ~.. ,______. ____.~ ~.~.l__.___.______

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10560 - 105 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5H 2W7 (403) 426-2469 4 L. takes are minor. as when Ian and Sylvia’s back-up group the Great Speckled Bird is identified as “the Great Speckled Band”; sometimes they are major indeed, as when Paul Bley, a jazz pianist, is described as a Yjazz guitarist’: whose career bears a striking resemblance to that of Ed Bickert, altbougb none at all lo Bley’s. Whatever tbe amplirude of CCR’s misrakea in its popular-music inclusions, they occur with a frequency that seems to me unacceptable in a work of reference. Such a poor performance in one category might be excus- able if the remainder of the book were relativelv enwfree. Unfortunately, tbis is “oOt Ihe case. P took a quick’ lrot through CCR from A to Z, noting only those items that were either clearly wrong or seemed likely to be so. Here’s a representative sample: In literaNre, where one would expect CCR to be stkng- est. them are a surprising number of mistakes. Wilson MacDonald’s first poetry coll&ion is identified as Our of the Wilderness (1926) whq it is actually The Song qfthe Prciirie Land (1918). a mistake all tbe inore puzzling in that Heather Robertson’s magnificent tribute to the tbe enhy goes on N mention a book in which lhii is clearly war generations, with more than 100 colour set out (alrhough since tbe publication date give” for the plates of Canada’s greatest war art. A powerful latter is incorrect. this semns to be a case of total incorn- text selected from personal accounts by petence on the part of whoever prepared the en&y). Tbe ordinary Canadian men and women of their Sono Nis Press is inaccurately described as a “poetry- experiences in the armed foices and in battle. publishing house” - it has published several volumes of $29.95 cloth, October publication. prose fiction - and the explanation give” for its name ls utter nonsense: CCR has it that Sono Nis is the Spanish for “sound” and “nothing,” respectively, whereas the press’s I-NE oRRRRoGRANTs first book explains that Sono stems horn the Italian for “I Frank, compelling insights into the lives of am” and ws hum an Early English contraction meaning people fmm all over the globe who have “is not.” chosen a new life in Canada. Their hopes, per- A flock of misdatlngs m$rs the entries for Mavis Gallant, ceptions, achievements and humiliations are Scott Symous, Pat Lane, J. Michaql Yates, Earle Bley, and Robert Service. But tbe worst confusion of all occurs in distilled from hundreds of interviews in a clear- the twin entries for “Alan Cm&y,” rhe pub!isber of eyed, sensitive treatment by Gloria Mont&m. “Contemporary Verse.” Under the forma we learn that he $12.95 cloth, September publication. had been ‘blind since 1933”, and under the latter that in 1941 “he was slowly going blind.” Tbe former gives 1952 WHAT DOES QlJEBEb WANT? as the lermination date of Contemporary Verse, the,latkr A concise, objective and penetrating presen- gives March. 1953; and the amusing thing is that while they tation by political scientist Andre Bernardof the both cannot be right, they are probably both wrong, since Joan McCullagh’s study AIan Crawley and Contempomry dominant ideas and goals shared by the vast Verse. gives February, 1953, as the date of final publica- majority of French-speaking Quebec&, the real tion. forces underlying them! and the tactical options Having detected a number of mistakes in the popular represented by the major Quebec political music and literahlre entries. I approached their .film parlies. Basic to an understanding of Canada’s counterparts with a jaundiced eye. If Goin’ Down the Road ongoing political crisis. $5.95 paper, is “the best and most successful English-Canadian film $13.00 cloth, September publication. made to date,” as CCR has it, when we might expect its hvo anti-heroes to be correctly identified as coming tim Nova - Scotia (runember “My Nova Scotia Home” on !he side of WR4iVIREQ: An Illustrateci History their jalopy?) rather than Newfoundland. Another error of Authoritative treatment Df the political, social description occurs when one of the characters in Montreal and economic evolution of Western Canada’s Main is defined as “a typical suburban” boy: He cab hardly traditional metrooole bv Alan Ariibise. wkh 100 be called suburban, since he lives within an easy hicycle splendid full-page histkcal photographs. ride of “the Main”; and far ti-om being typical, he comes $9.95 paper, $12.95 cloth, October publication. from a semi-hip family whose conllicts witb the far-out Mein denizens provide tbe fillh with much of its force. Diiment dates appearing in entries cross-rekenwd wi.ti one another is a problem with film information as well: you’ll have to choose between 1913 and 1974 release dates for Bingo, Leo Johnson captures both the flavour of local 1972 and 1973 for Kamoumska. 1970 and 1971 for Man On& Antoine, 1963 and 1964 for The Moonwap and 1973 events and the sweeping impact of great histor- and 1975 for Les Ordres. ical changes spanning more than two centuries Sports is yet another %ea where CCR has its problems. in a region of central Ontario. Beautifully bound The National Hockey League entry takes up a lor of space and illustrated. $10.00 cloth, now avallable. listing the 1967 and 1970 expansion teams, but then falls to mention the teams that came into the league in 1974, end the information provided regarding the st~chuing of divi- sions was out of date in’1975. The Canadian Football League enuy does not indicate that rhere is a separate enky for. the Ottawa Rough Riders: and the confusion is corn- _ BBooksin Canada. August:September, W77 HUFITIG Q this fall Q HURTIG P this fall 9 HURTIG

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I pounded when under the latter we read that the team has won the Grev CUD eight times since 1938, although rhe Grey Cup et&y in&c&s only six such cha&pionshi~s cre- dited to Ottawa between 1938 and 1975 (Ottawa won the 1976 Grey Cup, but only after CCR had been published). If all this seems rather picayune - although we am dealing with a work of reference. remember -consider that CCR commits a major gaffe in getting the dimensions of the Spit Delaney’s Island Canadian football field wrong. Jnd Hdg-in. Several of the preceding comments touch upon the edit- ing of CCR. and it might be well to make them explicit here. The frequency of conflicting information being con- tained in entries cross-referenced with one another is quite remarkable, and there is simply no excuse for it. The same appbcs to the number of times no cross-reference is indi- cated where one in fact exists: thii means that in the case of the separate entries for “Nelson Ball” and “WecdlFlower Press,” which complement one another, the reader is not informed that sn additional entry can be consulted, and is in The Weekend Man effect deprived of one of the most useful feahmx of compe- RirlrrrrdE. Wri$kf tent works of reference. Editorial inconsistency is a problem “lr is an exceedingly unusual in other areas as well: works fiat published in languages arhirremrm - a novel abour bore- other than English sometimes have their original appear- d#un rhrt isn’t boring.” Tmm~la Slar antes dated and sometimes not, and works published under 93.95 pseudonyms sometimes have the pseudonyms provided and sometimes not. If there are rhymes and reasons for these The Siren Year* practices, they are nowhere indicated. A Canadian Diplomat Abroad All of thii does not necessarily mean that CCR is a worth- 1937-1945 less book, of course. First editions of reference works often Clrsrl~ a Rilckir contain numerous inaceuracics, which are recti6ed in sub- sequent revisions; and it may well be’ that-the many . i .t-i+ w’inner of the 1974 Governor- categories of information I have not felt competent to con- Gene&a Award for non&don has sider (history and politics, particularly) have been more been dexribed a$ “rich and evoca- satisfactorily treated. What disturbs me is’ the uniformly banal level at which CCR has been discussed, BS if it were some sort of amusing informational collage rather than a book billed by its publishers (Oxford University MS) as a “mini-encyclopedia” that provides %I invaluable and irreplaceable introduction to Canadian life and culture.” The Last of the Crazy People Given tbe sheer number of efmrs revealed in a cursory Thslkr Find/n examination of CCR - and I have by no means listed all Wri& in the iradhion of A Afrm6cr .; I - , that I found-one might have expected at least some men- nJ rh,, Wedding. this brilliant novel -’ - ‘. - tion of them in reviews of the book. With a very few excep thrs the reader into a smrll boy’s i ‘-Y tions, however, reviewers for the major magazines and ,va>rld uf madnerr and fear. explad- ! .*I ,,.:a newspapers exhibited an embarrassing~willingncss to fall ing in a climax of inesorable horror. _ ..:?;:. :i over backwards in the uncritical admiration of an extremely ‘. %.!I5 __-z.;&‘A.’ _I complex volume. The typical review of CCR settled for a .little nitpicking regarding why specific subjects had been But We Are Enilu Robert Kroerrch. S3.50 included or excluded, and then hastened to dilute even this A \‘e’ery Double Life: The P&ate World of Mackenzie King mild criticism with a final affirmation of how wonderful and C. P. Swccr. S3.95 earth-shaking an event had come M pass. Stmngers Devour the Land: The Cree hunters of the Jamu Bay area versus Premier Bounrra and the James Bay De Thus John Robert Colombo’s “Aclmowledgemenk” velopment Corporalion Boyce Richardson. .$4.50 preceding CCR’s text. in which he recognizes the possibil- Fedemlism and the French,Canadjana Pierre Elliotr Trudeau ity of ermm and promises to correct them in subsequent s-l.511 editions, becomes by default one of the few accurate indica- Seven Rivers of Canada Hugh >lacLennan. S4.95 -’ tions that it is something less than perfect. Otherwise the The Legend of John Homby George Whdley. S5.95 readers of reviews, who presumably expect them to function The Boy from Winnipeg James H. Gray. $3.95 as consumer guides to the value of the book in question, Not For Every Eye Cenld Berserre: oanslared from the have been very poorly served by the major reviewing media; Frcnrb by Glen Shordiffe. S5.93 and speaking as one of those readers, I Fnd myself more The BIople Leaf Forever Ram-y Co&. X95 than a little upset by the mistaken impm$smn conveyed by a AND . bevy of superficial notices. The possible explanations - sloth, ignorance or (on- C’ pleasant, but unavoidable) the deliberate suppression of serious crhicism - are not comforting, and I am not comfortable in making them. But they seem to me to be unavoidable; so much so that if there were royal com- missions looking into the practice of book reviewing, this article would end with a call for just such an inquby. Since this is not the case, it will end with the observation that it The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited may well be time to begin treating book reviews with the 70 Bond Street, Toronto M5B 1x3 same scepticism with which we approach the more blatant. forms of advertising. 0 8 Books in Canada, Augusl-September, 1977 A Bebrbohm of the Prairies he isn’t. But for 30 years Braithwaite has been earning his bread by tilling the hard soil of freelance writing and it’s time for a reassessment

by George Melnyk .

“I USED TO CALL myself a hack writer,” Max Braithwtite Carling, Ont. (where he chums amund with that whirling confesses to me at the end of our interview in a Saskatoon dervish of Canadian wordmongers, Fariey Mowat). And motel room. “But now I just call myself a writer.” God finally, now that he’s in his 60% it’s time for an asswmeot. forfend that anyone place him among the pie-in-the-sky Has the Prairie boy who ran away to “Tarana” yade good? literati or the proletarian paparmzzi. No, sir. His self-image It depends on your criteria. According to the always affa- wanders tbe no man’s land between tbe highbrow and the ble Braithwaite (he would have ma& a good PR man), all . lowbmm. As a popular writer (somewhere between I-Is&% b wonderful. “I’ve had as much succesp as I deserve. I’m quin mmances and The Mdahar Review), he’s the staunch perfectly satisfied.” This statement, more appropriate for a middle-class, “One of Canada’s most successful authors memoir-writing statesman than a working novelist (he has and freelance witers,‘: scream the fame hawkers on the two in the works), hides a lifetime conditioned by tbe hard back of his books. “Canada’s most prolific freelance writer, hustle of being a “Have pen, will write anything” free- author of books, magazine articles, radio, television, and lancer for the literary bankers of the Ma&an-Hunter empire movie scripts.” Successful and prolific are the key adjec- and the mandarins of the CBC. “There was lots of work tives. Fame and fortune. The freelance writer’s nbvana. The because them were few other writers,” he says of the 1950s Pierre Berton svndmme. That’s Max Braidwaite to a and early 1964s. “The pay was good enough to earn a T-bone. liiing. I was a hot-shot adaptor of other people’s stories as But after fame and forhme, ‘what? For three decades he well as writing originals for Mm/eon’s, Liberty, Ladies has been pouring it out, first from StreetsviUe and now Port Home Jourllal.” He has that hardened freelancer’s con- tempt for the present welfare system in writing (“I’d rather write a children’s book than go to the Canada Council”). For-him, the “good old days” are B.C.C. (Before Canada Council), when literary reality was $dn ordinary laissez-faire capitalism, writer-eat-titer economics. “I r0 spect hard-working writers, not complainers.” he says in , the stem tone of tbe self-made man. He considers himself a pm. a bread-and-butter writer who raised his family by writing textbooks. An enemy of the esoteric, he doesn’t acknowledge the toll extracted by the school of hard knocks or recognize the way the spirit- wrenching buck of popularity keeps calling for repeats of any su&ess formula. It’s Hemingwayism all the way. Commercial success, which is the criterion by which Braidwaite lives, has its pros bqt also its cons (every ~IU d being a good con, 1 suppose). The first con is Braidwaite’s persona as the jolly fat man. (“I’m basically funny. I’m the clown ‘at parties, a natural-born entertainer.“) That’s the official Braidwaite. Unofficially, there is tbe reality of a Great Depression psychology, a juicy omelette of economic fear, great expectations, and hunger for recognition. Behind L each laugh, there is the hard work of leaming tbe tricks of the trade, the chore of writing radio scripts week after week, year after year. of pushing out textbooks, of endless stories and azticles for the popular-magazinemarket. To cover tbii sweaty sea. he spreads out his blanket of patented Braith- Waite humour and we gladly swallow the sugar-coated pill. It’s the humourist’s jbb. Bmithwaite’s humour is the fat man’s facade. It’s a de fence mechanism. To beat the other guy to the punch. you make fun of yourself. Ergo. Braidwaite’s preoccupation with his own past. His autobiographical trilogy, Why Shoot the Teacher, Never Sleep Three III A Bed. and The. Niglrr Augusl-September, 1977. Books In Canada 9 I We Stole the Mounde’s Car. is heart-warming humow bar- dering on soap opera at times. II tells us more about Braitb- Waite than we may first suspect. For’example, his division of the world into the “lean and stou~,“where producers, directors, editors and publishers are on the lean side, talks a&or a real war between the writer and his mentors. Like the house wine in a moderate restaurant, Braith- Waite’s bumour is a blend of the indigenous and the im- ported. “Stephen Leacock has done wonders for Canadian humour; he’s as great as Mark Twain,” he jays chger- ii~lly. Then adds: “The humomist who influenced me most is James Thurber. Thurber is clean, concise, deadpan.” A nice blend indeed, for which he won the Leacock Medal in 1972. He hates the superfluous. He’s a New Yorker stylist, of the Harold Ross school of ultra readability and genteel clarity. Eve&ii is seemingly up from. There’s a basic sympathy for the human condition in his work, a softness that precludes raw satire or parody. His humour is more lie a massage. The vision comes 6um the fatalism of Depression Prairie culture that taught commiser- ation with a smile, a tender stiff-upper-lip. 10 his distinc- tive trademark. The rest is mn-of-the-mill, state-of-the-art craft. In fact, the battle between a lifetime of on-the-job freelancing and his own sincerity continues. It’s the writer as hack versus the humomist as enteaaioer. The Bmithwaite who @forms me nonchalantly that “I’ve gotten nothing but good reviews” is the same Braithwaite who says seriously: “Canadian bumour is lot in gpod shape.” Takkyourpick. Chaplinesque pathos. the self-deprecating sadness of % clown, is one of the roots of Braithwaite’s style. It’s family entertainmenr rated G or PG. He’s read by everyone from hi-school smdenfs in Nowhere, Sask., to grandfathers io Huckster, Ont. The persona of the struggling, impoverished petit-bourgeois teacher appeals to everyone. In the Wait Disney world of the all$3nadian childhood. paio and suf- fering is tomed into nostalgia and trauma into laughs. Spiced with the usual bag of topics - SW? famil religion, and school - his small-town mirror is Just ng.g t .for Don FSVCHOLOGICAL PROBLEUS OF THE Harmn’s Canada - reflecting the greener pastures of a Ct,lf.D AGD H,S FAk,,LV rural past, the down-home neighbovlmess and solidarity of the Broadfoot Years. But Bmithwaite’s West (lie Sinclair Ross’ Upward, Sask., and W: 0. Mitcheli’s Joke and The Kid) is a d& appearing west. The agrarian civilization he fled after the SFond World War, .escaping as he put it fmm “the dry wmdy cold bv Rabies to the fertile wam~ literary fiqds of Tomnto,” IS no 16nger the over-riding prairie realrty. Both the focos and the scope of the Western identity is evolving. The hard-edged epic art of Rudy Wiebe, the eth- nit jabs of Ken Mitchell’s humour, the search for ao Indian past is the. new frontier of Prairie writing, while Btaithwaite’s writing is thar of an eager exile honed sharp by decades .of freelance assignmen% During the coarse of OUT interview (he was in Saskatoon for a Prairie Writers’ Workshop), I never got a sense of his being able to relate to the new West (except to tell me that the two-starry house with swimming pool that he had reti14 in California this past winter cost less than an apartment in Saskatodn). Three decades in Southern Ontario have made him a pmveyor of memories, a folkloriit of light eotertainmeot. He’s WJII- fortable in the p%t and so am we. Both his Why Shoot The Teacher sod W.O. Mitchell’s who Has Seen The Wind will be released as feature films this fall; Lie .the Prairie boyhood memories of William Kurelek, we just lap it op. As a resident practitioner of journalese, whar angers me is nor Braithwaite’s going but the fact that nothing has changed in the economics of Canadian writing in those three decades. Toronto is still the homeland of editors, producers, and publishers.‘Braithwaite’s pragmatic advice was “Go East, young man; if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” I prefer mother aspect of Braithwaite. the Raiie part that says “Grin and bear it.” Cl

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August-September. 1977. Books in Canada 11 Bet-ton tells the Dionne &ga as a Canadian epic, complete with Hupmobiles, hustle, and hyperbole I by J. L Granatstein

The Dianne Years: A Thirties Melodrama. by Pierre Quints’ parenk, bet&n a benevolenl Ontario government Berton. McClelland & SIewut, illustrared, 232 pages, and the forces of crass American commercialism, rhen we 512.95 cloth (ISBN 0 7710 1215 2). truly have A Thirties Melodrama. This is a good story. and it is simply asrooishing that it has remained untold in an impartial way until now. The HOW CAN WE account for the extraordinary success that saga of. *he. ..” +intuplCk_” is an incredible one, first because of Pierre Bert011 has achieved as a chronicler of Canada’s past? the exkemely unlikely occurrence of their birth and the even How is ir that lhis man, single-bandedly propping up more unlikely nature of their surival. But then, to have the McClelland 8: Stewart. can omduce a book fm each and ewyfallseaso”? . - Clearly if is not Berton’s great skills as a prose slylisr &at account for his sales. Berton’s writing is clear and simple, nof brillianr or flashy. That is undoubtedly a slrenglh, but it is no explanation. He is a good, diligent researcher who gek into the documents and talks to rhe pardcipank. He has an eye for the telling anecdote that can illustrate his point. These are the marks of every skillful writer. but none of these traik are unique, and there is no- here to differen- tiate Benon from any one of dozens of others. The primary reason for his success. I think, is that he is omnipresenr in the media, that he is tough, shrewd, and combative. thar he has rhe conkck and connections to ger the milsimum in publicity. Hi bboks are events, reviewed On the front pages, feaU”Ed in rhe supplements, even Ihe lead review in Books in Canada. Berton has advantages fhat he uses with skill and thar his publisher exploik lavishly, and the result is that every non-reader in Canada has a shelf of Bertoniana right alongside the Reader’s Digest condensed books. II is a w~ndmus thing fo behold. More lo the point, however, is Lhat Berton is incredibl? skilled in selecting topics that cry out 10 be done, subjects that strike a responsive chord in tie Canadian conciousness. His books on the CPR, for example, came at a time when doctor who delivered the children become a hem, a kniiht the Centennial glow was fading and when Canadians sons reproche, while the parenk become caricatured as needed a boost 10 their national ego. Thr Last Spike and country bumpkins, ignorant French-Canadian peaPants, is The Notinwl Dream offered just that, a celebration of a unbelievable. And to have the Pmvinee of Ontario step in national epic Lhat had united the country in an earlier period and literally take over the role of parents, physically separat- of doubt and despair. Berton’s books are unashamedly ing Ihe babies from their parents and family so they could nationalistic, carrying a popularized and myrhologized his- receive a “civilized” uobrineine. is inconceivable. What tny to a people who want and need it and who have failed to kind of people were we?’ - -. receive it from their academic hishwians. Berton fills a na- The story is a fascidadna one. but Berton does not mall+ tional need; and if he has become rich in the process, more make as much of it as he c&d. ;bilthough he has hadacces~ power to him. to rhe papers of Dr. Dafoe, to public records~ and to other This year’s book, The Dionrre Yews. is also sore to be a collectioti and although he has done extenwe interview- besr seller. The subject is so Canadian. so right. AtIer all, ing, his narrative stays resolutely on the surface. For &am- what could be more diidnctively Canadian than the Dianne ple, ir simply fails to lay the groundwork so we can under- Quints. that miracle of nature. that live-of-a-kind happening stand the growing and bitter dispute between the Dionnes that obsessed Canadians and the world through the last five and Dr. Dafoe. The doctor, Berton does tell us. was an yesrs of the Depression and inlo the war? And when we insecure man with a stulter who lived in Northern Ontario have a conflict between Ihe kindly country doctor and the because he could be the intellectual superior of the 12 Books in Canada, Augusl-September, 1 gii”

. - .._ -.. . . _ ._ _._ _._._ .- --.-_. ___.-_.____ ^__... I_.,.~~_--~_ hahifarlts who smmunded him. He spoke no Freric$, scorned those who did. and was probably a bigot. But this is. I think. insuffxjent to explain the warfare that de- veloped. Nor does Berton really explain the way in which

Dionne . . . was followed into public wash- rooms by men who wanted to see if he had the physical attributes to go along with his potency. the Ontario government got so deeply involved and how it could act with such blatant disregard for the wishes of the family. Nor does he offer us enough to understand how Dafoe became the archetypal country-doctor figme. All these themes are central to his story. but oonc of them me fully developed, slthbugh all are t&ted at length. Perhaps the SO”rceS are at fault. Instead, what the reader receives is undigested research, a plethora of brand names. lists, newspaper digests. Berton has ao unfortunate tendency to seek to make his work interesting rather than explicative. and he achieves this in 77~ Dionne Yews by a shameless flaunting of his research. Do you want to know what was doing in Toronto on the night the Quints were born? The 1930s attitudes to sex in magazines? Details of the Chicago Exposition? A rundown on New York nightclubs? What a dollar could buy in the Depression? Song titles? Chain letters? Do I exaggerate? One abridged example may prove the point: Up the ririy knoll that led to Quintland the cars rolled in B rkady rueam. year after year. Cbwmlcv. witb “knee action”; Tenqlana md Hupmobiler: Auburns and Singers: McLaughlin-Buick straight eights with Torque Tube his: cam with running boards. cars witi rumble seas. can with Ihe new &ii fenders. cam with “svemn- lining” i,r word suddenly used to describe everything from ashtrays 10 kiddie-ears): Aiiow Chryrlerr and Aintcam DC solar. : . And on and on for one quarter of a page. What is this in aid of? This tells us nothing about the Quints, it sets no scene, it adds nothing. It is trivial list-making to no other Purpose than to show off research and to stretch out the text in’s fashion that panders to nostalgia-seekers. i A National Understanding: Furthermore. much as did the advertisingmen and report- The Official Languages of Canada ers of the 1930s. Berton loves hyperboIe, particularly as a This attracllve, well-designed report disoussbs device to lead off a chapter. “No other birth in history,” he one of Canada’s most important issues: our tells us. “has been described in more detail, at greater officfal languages. The report reviews the Federal length. and with more accuracy than that of the Dianne Government% official languages policy with a view Quintuplets.” Jesus! “No country was hit harder by the De- to helping Canadians hefter understand the policy pression than the Dominion of Canada.” Except the United and its significance for the life of the country. States. “No other children in all history have had a remotely Preface by the Prime Minister of Canada. similar experience. ” “The news of [Will Rogers’] death Bilingual. Paperbound. 21.5 cm x 21.5 cm. vxx almost as stunning as that of John Kennedy’s a quarter 156 pp. cP32-28-1977. $2.00 of a century later.” Maybe this is intended to add cosmic significance to Berton’s writing. but it simply looks silly. Canada Handbook 1977 On the other hand, Berton can be sympathetic and mov- ing when he describes the impact OF the Quints’ birth on Thls colourful annual handbobk presents a their parents. “What will the neighbouts say?” Mrs. summary of recent social, cullural and economic Dianne said. “They will think we are pigs.” And as Berton developments in Canada. With lavish colour effectively demonstrates, many people did see the Quints as photographs and flowing narrative, it provides the living pmof of the revenge of the cradle, the French students, teachers end Interested Canadians with Canadian plot to populate the country with fezund franco- an overview of Canadian life and Its recent phones. Diinne. he tells us, was followed into public wash- progress. Paperbound. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. rooms by men who wanted to see if he had the physical 375 pp. CSl l-203/1 977. $2.95 attributes to go along with his porency, end it is no wonder that Dianne thought the birth of the qumtuplets was a disas- ter. Benon is similarly effective in explaining the physiolog- ical facts behind the birth, in exposing the appalling prac- tices of the Toronto Srar and other newspapers as they hustled after the SW. maaipulated it and twisted it,‘and in showing how the children developed in their different ways in the sterile playground where they were exposed to public display. IIQ This is a good story. a genuine melodrama. But it is not Eenon at his best; 1977 will not be a vintage year. 0 L@OKllNQ ouu F by Robert J. Ringer Leap over life’s roadblocks to a better way of living! From the author of ‘Wlnning Through Intimidation’ comes Richard Ringer’s new book filled with the humour and wisdom that made his previous work a record-breaking best seller. $lQ.O5

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Act of God, by Charles Templeton, cave near Jerusalem. The Cardinal’s morality, &out marriage, sexuality. McClelland & Stewrt, 320 pages, decisions are Complicated by hll own thmlogy, capital punishment. and so 812.95 cloth (ISBN 0 7710 8549 4). enlightened faith - he’s the son of a forth. Tempkton is obviously hying to careerist Resbyteriw minister - and do a careful job of popularization - IL’DGING FROI~ the tone of a recent by his adored orphan niece’s engage- most notably with the central, getiera- profile in The Canadian magazine, ment N a New York police detective. tive opposition of flesh (bones) and Charles Templeton, regardless of the The levels of this plot- serious, light, spirit - but since nearly all of it is success of fhis latest venture in mass romantic - are effectively balanced; integral to the development of the plof, communications, ls already enshrined. th& conclusion is tight and surprising, as well as safely liberal in its senu- by consensus, ln the pantheon of Cana- and though it brutally wraps up the merits, his dlda@cism neither bores’ dian popular culture. Whether he yet action of the story, it succeeds in nor offends. Only the suggestion that a truly deserves mytblc stature, or is leaving such matters as guilt- and re- Cardinal could want to kill (for Christ, simply the beneficiary of superior sponsibllity, and the implications of of course) may upset the narrowly, book-promotion, one prefers not to Christ’s physical mortality, neatly un- faithful. judge. Undoubtedly the Templeton resolved. Characterization is the book’s weak legend vzill help sell his novel - Jack TempleNn is going aft& a wide point. Minor figures - the Cardinal’s McClelland is reported N envision 10 market. Like The Kidnapping of l/w Irish housekeeper. a hard-boiled milllln copies worldwide. Assuming President. the new novel 1s emphatic- police-captain, a cynical old Sicilian Act of God ascends to the top of the ally, at times self-consciously, inter- Cardinal - slip instantly into stereo- best-seller lists. what will we have national in setting and scope, and typed roles and never escape-them. bought for ours&? Canada gets only brief mention. But Worse, the young detectiwlover lacks For one ddna - and wham it’s the though the reader is flown to Rome, any depth or nuance of conception and . only criterion t&t shot&l cotit here - Jerusalem, and London, and landed in the police mutine itself is uncon- we’ll get a provocative thriller with a New York, the author’s talents tend to vincing. It reads llle TV police com- solid, swiftly moving plot. It centres on the gazetteer’s respect for facts father edy; it can’t sonvince the reader it ought Michael Maloney, the Roman Catholic than the novelist’s feel for place. The to be takeh seriously and thus it under- Archbishop of New York - a leading streets of Manhattan! especially, seem tnines the authenticity of the novel. contender, not incidentally, for the a tomist’s-eye view; mside the walls of Templeton’s style does work, how- soon-to-be-vacant papacy-and on the the Archbishop’s residence Templeton ever. I confess to resisting ik charms at course of action he is compelled to is much more relaxed and confident. first-waiting, I suppose, for i.t to fall follow when an old college classmate, a Even there, though, the book wants on ik face-but it’s really uite agile reputable but eccentric archaeologist, to teach and preach. The reader is and competent. Though #,empleton discovers what he believes are the offwed discussions. all within the does have a habit of over-explaining bones of Jesus of Namretb in a burial- framework of conte&omty Christian everything, he’s always energqtic and often eloquent. The pmse ma not consistently be flexible enough fyor the demands that plot, idea, and characters put upon it, but it carries thestory along with satisfying force. Aa of %od is first-rate entertain- ment. Templeron is no Joyce, no J. F. Powers, nor does he pretend to be. In the contest he hds chosen to enter - running against big-money fiction like Triniry and The hfowqchat~gers -he deserves to do well. The book has a great deal of intelligence working for it, both of the opportunistic sort that knows what will sell books! and the higher sort that can handle Ideas and controvay without embarrassment or fwzr-simplification. The novel isn’t peSect, but there’s more authority and. passion to it-not to mention style - than Uris, fiailey, Robbms, Rohmer, erai., could dream of. I don’t mean this just as a back-handed compliment. Those authors are Charles Templeton’s competition, and he should give them a race for their money. 0 August-September. 1977. Books In Canada 15 mute.. Sooti after the train leavesVan- couver, Beam is seduced by Lise, a beautiful, naive, enigmatic revobuion- ary. Theodore falls fw her and although he has no political ideology he joins the Ef “cm Ly-ith insurrectionists. As the train makes its perilous and slow journey across the Jy-Ibd=mn country, Beam grows from a callous, self-centmd boy to a man capable of love, violence, and commitment. The A Population of Ohe, by Constance revolution hits its apogee in Regina Becesford-Ho&, Macmillan, 224 (where socialism was born in Canada, pages, $10.95 cloth QSBN 0 7705 The Coloura of War, by Matt as Beam points out) and peters out 1575 4). Cohen, McClelland & Stewart, 234 somewhere around Lake Superior. ;;95es;, SIO cloth (ISBN 0 7710 Beam and Lise leave t&train in North By CHRIS SCOT Bay, fugitives from a war that never \ really was, and continue by bus to WtLHELMtNA DOYLE, Ph.D., gap- By SANDRA MARTIN Salem. There Theodore re-enters the , toothed lii Chaucer’s Alisoun (here village life of his childhood, armed the resemblance ends: Willy & a vir- “READING NOVELS,” Adele Wiseman with his new-found maturity. gin), is a mawkish 30-year-old who has once said. “requires an acx of faith. Since 1969, Cohen has published spent the last five years comforting- You must enter the novelist’s world five previous novels (Korsoniloff, mother while father dissipates ia the willingly. without feat and without Johnny Crackle Sbtgs, Too Bad Gola- family’s Rosedale home. En Turbo m prejudice.” She conceded that one hod, The. Disinhcritbd, Wooden Montreal and Cattier College for her could leave with impunity if, after Haters) and one volume of short first-ever job interview, Willy consid- 50 pages or so, the world proved stories (Cobonbus and the For Ludy). ers “The Project,” as she calls it, of uninh?bitable. It is a good approach N That’s more than most writers produce taking a man: “At this thought, several any ptece of fiction. but one that seems in a lifetimeandhe’s only35 But while large, restive birds I seem to have particularly relevant to Matt Cohen’s, he is certainly pmlilic, Cohen has swallowed recently flap inside me, new novel. The Colours of War. The disturbing my breakfast and compos- story Theodore Beam - a always promised more than he has is about The ure.” Well, yes. The object of these thirtyish drifter who bears a striking delivered. The same is true of Cofours of War. Cohen is a reflective flutters is a half-ihunk ‘businessman, resemblance to Cohen-and his return titer skilled at exploring the intricate George MacKay, who will turn up m the parents and the small Ontario workings of fathers and sons, husbands later in a BmntEsque coincidence. mwn he left 10 years before. It is a and wives. The Colours of War is best Willy’s “field:’ is the KXh-CenNty simple. sometimes eloquent tale of a where Cohen is writing about Beam novel, and Constance Beresford-Howe man’s search for roots and a place. in and his relationships with Lise and his has written one set In the Montreal of society. However. through a conceit, parents. Theodore’s growing self- 1969. best understood by himself, Cohen has awareness is developed with warmth Like The Book of Eve (Macmillan, enmeshed his plot in a metaphor of and perception. But Cohen’s world is a 19731, this is a chatty and discursive Gordian complexity that requires not small one, confined mostly to rural first-person narrative, a one-plot novel only trust from his reader but also a Ontario. He knows nothing about the in which everything depends on “The suspension of disbelief. larger landscape and he has ruined his Project.” The narrative itself creaks For teasons that are never fully under the strain of exposition and explained. civil war is imminent in characterization, the opening chapters both the United States and Canada - falling dutifully into place (“The Pm- although the time appears to be the jecc:, “The Colleagues,” “Neigh- present. In Vancouver where Besm bows”) like the formal slabs of intro- lives, dbiig little more than falling ductory material that they are. As in the behind in his rent. there are vague earlier novel, the voice sometimes announcements about food shortages quavers to extraaeous musings: God the and labour disputes. These warnings, comedian, the deterioration of Angli- coupled with an unwarranted and mali- can services, abortion, the Generation cious attack by thepoliceanda birthday Gap, modem female fashion. Willy is telephone call from his father Jacob, SO old-maidish that one wonders at pF!suade Theodore to go home for a times who is speaking, where from, wstt. Life may be dull in Salem, Ont., and to whom, Again as in the earlier but at least there is always plenty to eat. novel, A Population of One reveals a He buys a ticket on the first train east sate sense of place, but Constance and climbs aboard. lt is not an ordinary Beresford-Howe seldom uses one train. The pasrengem ;cn comprised of adjective where three will do. And the_ panic-stricken hordes tleeingaVancou- novel is cross-referenced with parea- wr that only the day before was book by imposing an implausible thetical asides on character and action, “serene.” ordinary aaveks such as civil-war context on what is essentially a technique that is as subtle as an elbow Beam. and armed revolutionaries led astorvaboutaman. hiswoman. and his in the ribs. Constance Beresford-Howe by a shadowy figure named Perestrello. paresis. has been ill served editorially. The groups exist cheek by jowl and yet No matter how disappointing, Tbc The tide of this novel is solipsistic remain totally oblivious of each other. Colom of War has about it a sense of and the ch;iracters are stereotypes: It’s hard to credit. sincethetriptakea promise. One is left with the impres- Archie Benson-Clarke. the cur- about three times as long as usual and sion that neat time Cohen will produce mudgeonly departmental chairman the revo!utionaries stop the train several a truly fine novel. I only wish it didn’t with a heart of gold; Harry Innis and times a night to drop off supplies and fi$a;tFFg and require quite so many Molly Pratt, the American “radical” * arms ,at designated spots along the and his liberated mall (she teaches 16 Books in Canada, Auguti-September, 1977 CsnLit and “makes it sound Iie a Oh. no, thiirrmc fourteen visit, be exact, corporation.” which it is); Emma IO Monorail. Fbst time was in ‘19 when the Rim of Whale WY here. Though O’Brien. the fat Chaucerian who.used half a mo. wasn’t I here in lb+. for Ihe Ru to be thin (before marriage); Ruth picnic? - 01 was *at Iatu. Archie? Yes. Pinsky who teaches remedial English; dmt was the lime Windy my peke bit Ihe Tmdu Missioner. such a sensible dqgie. Mike Armstrong. the student-as- hew.?smawfulbGTe.Idon’lkmwwby plagiarist: and Bill Trueblood, the gabber Acialsinurt always be bows. new anemic and impotent professor with matter what country. nil dread erem,res whom Willy takes up in futiheraoce of ~a@le writing dull boolu lilre Hlll&r i Unkempl. Must be that round ficial fairs Six Journeys: A Qtnadisn “The Project.” This is faculty psy- they have Lo tend. dulls their nils orwmc Pattam, by Charles Taylor, House of chology at its most stqen?cial, and the thing. Good brandy. Anansi; 268 pages. $14.95 cloth gSBN characters are. in Nietzsche’s phrase, The sustaining interest m A Popu/a- 0 88784 057 4) and $7.95 paper (ISBN “copies of actors,” mere ghosts in the fion QfOne is mildly prurient: how does 0 88784 056 6). groves of academe. One would like to Willy make out? Not at all with Bill believe that this is the point, but the Trueblood, whom she drives down to By 1. M. OWEN editing lcaves room for doubt. Washington, D.C., for a motel tryst Yet. when Harty Innis is thrown into that misfires. In a brilliant variation on THIS FINE t3oo~consists ofbiigmphies jail after a student demonstration, and an old set piece, Willy goes contracep- of six Canadians: James Sutherland Molly Pratt. somewhat the worse for tive buying. Spermicidal jelly ‘is as Brown, a staff officer in the 1920s whisky. appeals to Willy for help and close as she gets to realizing “The who was the author of the secret De bail money, the scene is adroitly mao- _Prnieef . -,--.. " fence Plan No. 1. for the invasion of tbe aged. So. too, is the growing relation- A Population 0JOnc is literate. in a United States; Bishop William White, ship between Willy and Archie received soti of way, certainly different the Anglican missionary who pot to- Benson-Clarke, who. at 60, is the same from tbe usoar ladyprose confessional. gether the most important pan of the mental age as the narrator. A pity, then, It will sell, if oflly because it makes few great Chinese collection of the Royal that his author has m kill him off in the demands on the reader, and those Ontario Museum; James Houston, the name of Sentiment and Tragedy. demands are speedily sacrificed, lie artist whdbmught the art of the Inuit to Archie Benson-Clarke, for the sake of the outside world; Herbert Norman, the Her true genius is comedy. For there maudlin returns. Towards the end of diploma! who was a victim of the are characters in this novel who leap off the novel there is some fine witing American anti-ComInunist witch-hunt; the page. &live, absolutely themselves, about “Canadian” isolation. “Soli- Emily Cxr, who needs no inkoductiott; and enormously funny. Here’s Archie’s tudes ra?ly Jouch, much leas merge,” and Scott Symons, who is Scott sister from Jamaica, Mrs. Jessie Tort, * observes Wtlly Doyle. How true. A Symons. when asked if thii is her first trip to novel less than the sum of its soli- The most significant thing they all hlontreal: huks. q have in common is that they greatly

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AugustSeptember. 1977. Books In Canada 17 intmst a very good writer oarned precursor-hero of latter-day Canadian thevery material he purports to eschew. Charles Taylor. and thll is quite enough nationalism: a sort of Ur-Hutlg. God Example: “Question: What do the to justi@ their presence together in one saveusall. 0 dates [sic] 1776.1867 and 1967 have in book. However, the subtiile is .4 Cona- common? Answer: They’re adjoining dim Puttern; in his introduction Taylor moms in the Chateau Fmntenac in and it must Quebec City.” Substitute “the Hilton be taken as the subject of the book. Hotel in Warsaw” (delete “the dates”) This pattern must be found, nst and you have one of the earliest Polish the people themselves or in jokes on record. the events of lives. but in the Lest Mamt and his backers brand me philosophical system of Charles Tay- totally humourless, I’ll confess that two lor,which or three times I snuck into my closet Anglo- and laughed out loud. A section en- The Retarded Giant, by Bill Mann, titled “If-Canadians-Had-Named- thought that I find irresistibly comic, drawings by Aislin, Tundra Books- The-Movies De!xrbnent” pokes some but it does represent something real and (Collins), 96pages, $2.95 papa(lSBN clever fun at ou; passion fir moderate desemes seriously some0 88776 of 095 31. language. (for example, Strong Dis- - Charles Taylor himself That Far Greater Bay, by. Ray agreement On The Bounty). And can’t manage to do so all the time. Guy, Breakwakr Books, illustrated, Aislin’s drawings show once again 147 pages, S9.95‘cloth (ISBN that, Canadian though he is, he is one of 0 919948.14 6). and $4.95 paper the finest caricaturisk alive. Too much (ISBNO 919948 13 4). _ of this book, however, is spent trying to convince us that we still haven’t even By MORLEY TORGOV learned how to make a decent cup of. frontBritishness.” Its basic. coffee. Smug Tomntonian that I am, I hvang WE MUST BE growing up. Our scientists choose to regard that viewpoint as a atiftparting andin setting Quebec the are making headlines around the world crock of. . nitrogenous waste. by condemning apple pie because Gulf.! I pass over some further resemb- In the case of That Far Grater Bay, kmces to reach Taylor’s principal point laboratory mice have been known to get there’s an underlying assumption to at once: “Each sought fulfillment in the sick on it. And the extraordinary mari- which I also take exception, namely older values of another civilization.” tal comedies reported from the Ottawa that things and ople far removed in There’s an awkwardness here, because bedrooms of our political leaders have time and space p”mm contemporary lie the older values Sutherland Bmwn gossip columnists from .Manhattan to possess an unfailing purity, charm and sought were those of the British officer Monaco hanging on every black eye as simplicity. Nevertheless, this book is caste. which of course are basic to the if it were as significant in the course of saved from being labelled Romantic Canadian spirit. Taylor copes with this: human events as Sarajevo and Pearl Hogwash (Nostalgia Division) by Ray “In some cases . . . the ‘alien’ culture Harbour. AU Johhny Carson has to say, Guy’s tintainted sense of humour was an authentic Canadian tiadition in his nightly monologues, is “Mean- (which has earned for him the 1977 which had been betrayed by the propo- while today in Canada.. . .‘I and his Leacock Medal) and by the very reg- nents of modernity, and thus made California audiences promptly split ionality of his places and characters. unnaturally foreign.” So there we have their drlpdry sportswear with laughter. Seldom do we who dwell west of that it: the thing these six p&sons unsni- Are we indeed a nation of clowns? “poor bald rock” (those are Joey mously oppose is modernity. All who According to Bill Msnn, a young American humourist and broadcaster, Smallwood’s words, not mine) get an disagree with them are modernists, and opportunity to discover that when the therefore liberals; liberals, and there- we are..And Mr. Mamt should know; fog lifts there are real human beings fore technocrats; technocrats, and after all, he has lived and worked in talking and laughing out there under the therefore continental&s and repttbli- Canada for all of six years. The Re- sun. I for one always thought that the csns. No matter that Emily Carr hated tarded Gimt is described as “his province’s official sound-effect &s England almost as much as she des- parting gift of laughter” .u, our native two seagulls arguing ovex a deceased pised the Englishness of her native land, written just before he left to take mackerel. Victoria: at least she had a sentimental UD residence in Los Aneeles earlier this Mr. Guy’s anecdotes - they’re attachment to the monarchy, just lie ykar. Some gift! Thii joke book is really too sketchy to be classed as short Scott Symons. I lie the story in which based on the premise that Canadians are Scott Symons’s eyes fill with tears ashe truly first-rate when it comes to being tells the Queen M.other: “We are still second-rate. Offensive as that mpo- loyal to your [sic] Crown. Ma’am. We sition is, I might have been wd.P mg to are your Majesty’s Royal [sic, or did be waive my objection if only Mann say “loyal”?] Americans.” He bows, hadn’t elected to demonstrate his ooint and the Queen’s eyes. we are told, fill in such a third-rate manner. His bequest with tesrs too. A keen sense of the to us is an inventory of some 500 one- ridiculous being essential for a myal and two-line putdowns relieved here consort in our time, I choose to believe and there by the cartoons of Aislin that they were tears of laughter. sup (Terry Masher). Disregarding his own pressed with @ courtesy vd self- promise in the foreword that we aren’t ;o;a;J for whtch Her Majesty IS going to find any N&&e jokes (“They’re nothing but warmed-over The &or, bless him, is perfectly Polish jokes anyway,” ihe author aware of the comic aspects of his cause, explsins). Mann has filled this shallow and brings them out with obvious casserole with an assortment of leftover stories-are as unpretentious as Satur- pleasure. I think I am mostdelighted by wisecracks that prove not that he is a day night at ‘the local Legion Hall. the apotheosis of Sutherland Brow, discerning witness to dut national ab- Mostly they hue remembrances of his the anti-Semitic true-blue colonial and surdities but rather that he is diligent- irrehievab!e outharbour childhood, a self-made Englishman, into a though not too adept - at reworking hometown church that no !onger 18 Books In Canada, August-September. 1977 ,

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August-September, 1977. &%!a in Canada 19 stands, a train that no longer runs, of folk-lore studies within each division. traditions of other ethnic &ups have once-splendid country houses and or- The material selected ranges frbm ac- adapted to the Canadian way of life. It chxds that now lie in decay. Yet the counts by early explorers, mis- therefore focuses largely on the well- tone is never funereal and, though Mr. sionaries, and settlers to those of the established and assimilated ethnic Guy leans rather heavily on clich6s specialized anthropologist and folk- communities ‘(Germans. Ukrainians, where one would hope for inventive- lorist. It includes much previously and Jews) rather than on tbe groups ness. he records his island’s eonfron- unpublished work, some of which was who arrived more recently. tation with the 20th century with specially compiled for this anthology, Fowke’s introductions place each warmth and wit. Trouble is, these as well as reprinted material from item within the context of modem reflections are mostly of a surface scarce and out-of-print books or limited folk-lore schblatship. showing for ex- natme. An informed and widely re- circulation periodicals. ample, hqw the very recent phenome- spected St. John’s columnist. Mr. Guy Each section presents aspects of the non of Newtie jokes fits into the old strikes me as being shrewd enough to folk-lore of one of the four major ethnic traditions of blason pop&ire found in comprehend the peculiar co-existence almost every community. The sources of highjinks and disaster, peace and groups of Canada: native peoples, Canadiens, Anglo-Canadians and the for each item am meticulously listed. unrest. public honesty and political “Canadian mosaic” of other national and related materials are also indiated. chicanery that are so much a part of life groups. The choice of representative revealing a wide range of scholarship. on his n%ive isle. He owes us another The extensive bibliography alone ’ book about Newfoundland - tbii time items must have been immensely difficult, but the final criterion seems to makes the book indispensible to any with less tender affection and more student, while the variety and humour bite. I hope he sees fit to discharge his have been the inclusion of material not generally accessible before. For exam- of the many items should capture the debt soon. ple, the seven iteM that make up the attention of thegeneral reader. Meanwhile, today in Canada. . . . 0 section ?‘Native Peoples” discuss rep Unfortunately, these last qualities resentative Indian and lnuit cultures seem to be conspicuously lacking fmm and draw attention to valuable source Fowke’s second collection of material in scarce early works. Also children’s lore, Ring around the moon. reprinted are articles from specialist The group of tongue-twisters is a periodicals. It is interesting to share the delight, and thecampfiresongs will be immediacy of Alexander Henry’s eye! remembered with nostalgic interest, witness account in the 1770s of the but generally the selection seems on- Ojibwa “Shaking Tent”. phenomenon, imaginative and one can hear many of and then compare this with the later the songs and rhymes inchided coming observations of the trained an- fmm the lips of the teacher in the classmom rather than from the kids in Folklore of Canada. edited by Edith thropologist Diimohd Jenness in hii investigations of Ojibwa folk-lore. the schoolyard. The line-drawing illus- Fowke. McClelland & Stewart, 349 bations lack life, and since the book is yyl.).$10 cloth (ISBN 0 7710 French Canadians have long shown printed throughout in sepia, tbe overall 2 an interest in their cultural heritage, and impression given is one of a certain Ring around the moon, edited by there is a wealth of published material drabness a”d austerity. Cl Edith Fowke. McClelland & Stewart, available on their folk-lore. The s&ond _ ._ _.._ 160 pages, S6.95.cloth (ISBN 0 7710 section, “Canadiens,” contains nine 3200 5). items dealing with Acadians and France-Ontarians as well as By GLYNIS E. C. BARNES Qu&&cois. The emphasis is on oral tradition, with cmues populaires and THE KX.K-LCIRB of Canada: the very Iigendes thoroughly represented, but theme issues a challenge, for surely no there are also some rather more unusual one person could be qualified to write subjects discussed, such as Pa&w adequately on the multitude of topics Gnn~eS by Maurice Tremblay. and that should be included. Yet here is a Foodways (customs connected with The Lady Who Loved New York, by book that lives up to its name: Edith food and cooking) by Jay A. Anderson. R. L. Gordon, Fikhenty & Whiteside, Fowke has met the challenge wisely, Folk-Ion has only more recently 277 pages, $10.95 cloth (ISBN consulted the finest authorities on a become a popular subject among, 0 88902 422 7). wide range of specialized topics, and Anglo-Canadians, and much research resisted the temptation merely to rehash remains unpublished. .This therefore By BRUCE STOVEL their works herself. Instead she has provides a great wealth of material for meticulously edited a “sampler,” the third section, which is by far the um ~0ttooN’s two earlier novels, this bringing together articles and excerpts longest with 16 items. Again there is an book is old-fashioned, realistic, end from some 50 authors. preserving the emphasis on oral tradition,*particularIy easy to read, a story with characters full impact of each writer’s views by folk-songs, with a long excerpt from more than a structure with themes. The a!iowing him to speak for hiMelt W. Roy Mackenzie’s pioneer work Tire story is that of the central character, the while at the same !ime providing the Quesr ofrbe Ballad (1911). Jokes and lady of the title. And Alice Barrington editorial material necessary tb knit anecdotes are more widespread in En- Melville, now 95, remains every in.ch them all together into one comprehen- glish Canada thti the longer folk-tales. th& lady. We follow her thoughts as she sive work. and are here represented by Nen$e reviews a life that began in The wide scope of the subject, as Jokes by Gerald Thomas and Riddles 19th~century New York, in a world of well as the bias of the material available by Elisaboh Greenleaf. Various types servants and weekly At Homes situated for inclusion. makes the balance and of the folk narrative are also given full somewhere below the legendary cohesion she achieves seem the mom attention, including a fascinating article Vanderbilts and Whihteys but dis- impre:,sive. The work has been divided on modem developments of the folk-tale tinctly above the Suddenly Rich (the by ethnic group rather than geogmphi- in U&m Tales by Susan Smith. brawling poor and casteless immigrants cal region. and Fowke has endeavoured The final section of five items stres- am tucked away in. Brooklyn and other to represent fairly the various branches ses the ways in which the customs and obscure places). 20 Books in Canada, August-September. 1977

_..-- --___._-- ._I ___I._ _. I. .._.._ The story of Alice’s life begins, not low. The novel reaches an artful climax 1 , witb her bib and childhood, but at the when, after her pathetic husband’s moment she becomes a young lady: at death, Alice refuses to read dte novel he the aSe of eight, she is given a private has secretly written about her- an act tutor, no longer allowed to wander into tbat epitomizes Alice’s strength of the kitchen at will, and becomes character in all its complexity. “Miss Alice” to..the servants. Prom this point on, she is unshaKeably Gordon is Canadian (his earlier dignified, imperious. reserved, high- novels were set in Chnada) and, pam- minded. and self-assured. She shares doxically, this is a very Canadian A Short History of Canadian Eog- none of the new century’s fascination novel. Aliceloolcs back on her life from lish, by M. H. Scargill, Sono Nii with sex: Alice passes over her sexual an apartment in Vancouver, her mar- Press, 63 pages, $4.00 paper (ISBN awkening in the phrase “now that her ried daughter’s home. More than that. 0 91946231 6) young body was rounding out so very though: if the place where the events satisfactorily. . . .” The men of her occur is American, the sweep from By ARAMINTA WORDSWORTH world comfortably continue tbe family late-Victotian to contemporary is a business or live even more comfortably distinctively Canadian time scale. Our SHORTLY *mm I hived in Canada, I on ihherited wealth; the women, nomi- most interesting: novels, after all, are fell into conversation with a m6mba of nally intellectual inferiors -and moral written and read by people who grew up the Toronto literary mafia. The setting exemplars, rule the home with a in a fixed society and now cope with a was, inevitably, tha roof bar of the Park tough-mindedness Bismarck would fluid one. Also, typically Canadian, Plaza; the subject, less usually, the envy. Alice, like her own mother and perhaps, is the controlled, unpuuling woni riding. With dim memories of her even more formidable mother-in- way the story is told. Each section of Bagehot, my companion claimed a law. prides herself most on her strength the book ba@ns with a page or so of romantic etymology fdr the word, in- of character. She dismisses her own action in the Vticouver present, fol- sisting it \iras the distance one man sensible daughter and her friends as lowed by the return of Alice’s thoughts could ride in a day from tbe county “girls without even a pinch of pepper.” to just that point in her career where town. With fresher experience of a Alice’s society considers the they had left off. She and her author lang-and-lit course. I thought it was sratq’imdlias to be “the truly superior never miss a stitch; @e reader can derived from the Scandinavian paon,” and it is her never-doubted hardly be surprised by what happens in tltriding, or third, as in the Yorkshire conviction that she is such a person that the final sentence of her long sfory. The ’ administrative districts. And though the gives the novel its subtle plot. She style, too, is direct, unaffected, old- dictionary confirmed this. it surprised marries a moody, weak-willed man for fashioned -often painfully so. But in me by producing another, uniquely all the wonS, proud reasons: personal just such terms might a lady whose Cqadian meaning - a parliamentary . humiliations slowly and inevitably fol- great love was acity think ofherself. 0 constituency.

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-. .._ Riding is only one of the words to have suffered a sea-change in its pass- age across the Atlantic. Scargill pre- sents several other examples: hurdy- g&y, not the familiar barrel-orgao but a dance hostess in the saloons of the Cariboo: bee. as in quilting; andScotch ’ half breed. not a shem but the child of anindian inother and i Scats father. Scargill’s slim volume. can do no more than scmtcb at tbd history of English in Canada, but it illu+atea Sine,. Betty, and the Mo&g graphically the most pressing,need of Man: The Story of CFRB, by Donald the settlers -finding a word ocpbrase with a uniquely Canadian Bavour. Jack. Macmillan, 166 pages, $4.95 for it. And hi lists follow the pattern of But there is a problem. Does a word paper (ISBNO 7705 1516 9). exploration aud settlement of the coun- become Canadian because it is used in eY. Canada? Obviously not. Origin must be ‘By CHARLES OBERDORF Fmm tbe early days of fishing and a ‘key factor or else a drastic shift in kapping come such words as baccalao meaning must have occurred, as with To ovm5Iwwv, there ate artists and (derived fmm the Portuguese for cod) riding. Obviously, translations of there are businessmen, and cratkmen and Herring Chokers (the name given native words, such as sockeye for fall somewhere between tbe two. It’s to Maritimers, especially New Bruns- suk-kegh orredsalmon, are impeccably often struck me, tbougk. tbat while wickers. because of their love of fish), Canadian, as ispemmicatt. But what of those I call craftsmen - people who cowears-da-b+, porrrrge, and made words such asfactoty. glossed bereas a create, but with a market, a price, and bearer. The move weshvard across tbe trading post, tbe sense in which it was most often a specific purpose in mind Prairies produced soddy, back forty also used in India and tbe Far East? -are supposed td concern themselves and grain elevator. while mining gave Annoyingly, Scargill ignores theissue. more with commerce, it’s the success- us Rochy Mountain deadshot, a lethally In spite of such reservations, his ful “fine” ‘artist who’s the better heavy form of pancake, and SOUP book remains a’ lively, often witty. businessman. Anton Kuerti, I would dough, a Yukon miner. Hootch, pink introduction to the subject. It also guess, makes more money than any teas (a Manitoba institution, no doubt provides tbe information that! thanks tc piano tuner in Canada and much more short-lived. in which ladies in pink. the great vowel shift, Cauadmns speak than a man who hand-builds harpsi- aprons entertained gentlemen in pink a purer form of English than tbe English chords, though he’s far from the ties), and pemmican arc other wopis themselves. Canadian, eh? 0 highest-paid pianist on the continent.

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--.. i -- . .~_ . .._ -.-s There must be at least a dozen pa&rs making $150,000 with his IO-per-cent are, in effect, folk literature-comic, in Toronto who net more per year then deal. grotesque, end primitive reflections of the most expensive custom framer. Donald Jack loves to tell stories lie the concerns of deliberate artistic ex- All this is a roundabout way of that. He tells them any pression. They express tbe myths that saying that I was a little surprised to talesSine, about shape the popular imagination, the find novelist Donald Jack (an artist) They’reMan. incarnations of the fears, anxieties, and writing the corporate biography of aspirations that attend the human condi- radio station CFRB (a very successful aboutSine, tion: the fear of death, of evil, of the business); but thatonsecondtbought he - in Torontoanvu& - unknown, ahd of chaos; the wish for was probably more appropriate for the can catch them betwe&~~~& ~ilobs justice and immortality; the aspiration task than one of the cmps of freelance of treacle. 0 to superhuman power or godhead. journalists who usually take on jobs The last section of the book, like this. Or, in the words of a fellow “Epithets,” is a clevmjuxtapositionof journalist who frequently documents one-liners extending for eight pages, painters and their work: “If you went to the result of which is a huly fine know about money, ask an artist.” choric poem. There is a collectivevoice Jack’s 166page book (more a~&w in this litany. the voice of all the Yorker-style profile than a tborough- mowers, villains and heroes just met. going history) adds weight to this The book culminates in a kind of thesis. Jack makes appropriately danm- chaotic danse macabre, a carnival of ing comments on CFRB’s program seductive and fanciful notions. content: ” . . .popular tunes whose Canada’s Monsters is light, enter- whining lyrics and sugary arrange- RobArt taining, and informative. Mrs. Garner ments symbolize the debasement of Colombo, Houpslow Press, 126 pages, ti.a confirmed monster-lover and takes public taste since the hventies and $2.95 paper,(ISBN 0 88882014 3). obvious relish in her subject. .She tbbties.” “The End of music that CTL Canada’s Monsters, by Betty San- discusses sea-serpents of the East and [Canadian Talent Library, CFRB’s re- ders Gamer, Potlatch Publications, West coasts, various Canadian lake cording company] produces ten be illustrated. 95 pages, $4.95 paper monsters that appear in legend and rock judged from the fact that when Lyman (ISBN 0 919676 06 5). drawings, and, of course, British. Potts persuaded Air Canada to drop its Ogopogo, by Mw Moon, J. J. Columbia’s elusive giant, the Sas- in-plane Muzak and use hi CTL al-. Douglas, illustrated, 195 pages, S4.95- quatch. The book is enriched with bums. none of the passengers noticed paper (ISBN 9 88894 108 0). imaginative full-colour cartoons-of the difference.” “. . . homogenized watef-beasts, dragons, and apemen by musical pap with heapings of sugar. a By ANDREA GALLAGHER James Simpkins and John McLeod and middle-of-the-road sound requiring no charming initials by Laura Piotmwski. exercise of concentration or effort of IN HIS mwbook of found poems, John Old maps and woodcuts show monsters the imugination. The recorded music Colombo has boldly gone where no perhaps more strange than &ue as they did not ask to be listened to; merely to poet has gone before. Mostly Monsters were imagined by early explorers and be felt as a vibration, a harmonic to the is mostly a collection of poems found settlers. buzz of the telephone, the whiie of the by this poet-gatbew in such diverse There is a gizeable bibliography for vacuum cleaner, or the rush of the auto places as gothic thrillers, radio plays, those who want to read more about tire.” He also recounts Andrew Allen’s comic books, monster movies, Ripley, monsters, real and imagined, and for brief, unhappy tentux at ‘RB before his and popular science fiction. Each poem the reader who becomes a monriter- features a monster of some sort, and watcher. a page on which to keep a move to adistinguished careeron CBC. there are many sorts here ranging from Still, the freelance journalist would “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed” and _ personal sighting record. have given us, I’m sure. a fuller taste of Lake Okanagan in the interior of the treacle - a typical playlist, the “Ming the Merciless” through to “The $$ Dutchman” and “The Man of British Columbia is reputed to house a number of Denny Vaughan cuts played legendary monster whose name is in one day. But that’s not what interests Ogopogo. Believers. . claim to have seen Donald lack. There are superheroes and their more a many-IIUmpKt, long-necked dragon; What does interest him enormously realistic relatives, the supwsleut+, skeptics explain it as an optical illusion is the part of CFRB we can’t hear while modem folk-heroes who represent the .created bv wind and water. Marv driving or vacuuming - the money. realms of myth and romance there ere Moon’s book on tbe subject, Ogopogb, . And he tells about that in delicious monsters’and madmen who manifest consists of page after page of eye- detail. About Joseph Atkinson, then what Northrop Frye calls “the world of witness accounts of Ggopogo sight- owner of the Toronto Star, and Mac- the nightmare and the scapegoat, of ings, the cumulative effect of which is kenzie King putting one over on J. A. bondage and pain and confusion” - tedium. The accounts al] sound the “Bud” McDougald and E. P. “Eddie” the tragic and ironic. Wefind here no . same. Several letters giving the opin- Taylor. then senior shareholders in visitors from the Greco-Roman oan- ions of scientific authorities are re- ‘RB, while McDougald and Taylor theon, no Grendel, but rather iheir printedverbatim. thought they were putting the “stir@’ “popular” 2Otb-century counterparts. . There is a good chapter that offers on Atkinson. Of the selling of inter- And the popular imagination bodies some theories as to what Ogopogo views and of H+ny Sedgwick, who forth its own forms of things unknown might be. But it too is laden with took a 70 per cent pay cut to join the and turns them to shapes that mirror the eye-witness testimonials, dismisSive of station as president in the early 1930s archetypal patterns. So Athena surfaces any rational explanation. This chapter for $3,000 per year plus 10 per centof in America ifi 1942 as Wonder Woman; coutains some excellent illustrations by the profits before taxes. Mercury becomes The Flash, and Ex- Martin Springett of naturally occurring “But there aren’t any profits, ‘calibur the Buck Rogers disintegrator “monsters” -Oafish, Manatee, Sea HalTy.” pistol. Lion. The book claims to build up “Well. that.11 be my business.” Found poems are unintended poems: evidence that “will daunt the most Sedgwick new drew more lhan they are accidents and therefore altiays iconoclastic sceptic.” This sceptic re- $3.000 in salary, but in the end he was ironic, often naive, and amusing. They mains undaunted. 0 August-September. 1977. Books in Canada 25

_ __ .._ the touted-about language lessons and Korean females not being ridden carry ‘. ! fixes his attention on the world im- babies in bright-coloured quilts slung mediately before him. Errrn lntdags is hunchback above their buttocks.” It is , an immensely enjoyable book - di- the last stanza that turns the beautiful ; verse, honest, simple. image into statement: The Greenlanders’ Saga by George I Johnston is vastly different in style, but hlhccdddnbabiic beadsare r0wrt-d~ dw bbwrkms. but dw bnbiesdo nor smrnhrr shares a similar inclination to report. Tbebabierarcsmodw~ng dds wrld. Johnston’s tale, in translation from Icelandic, is fmm the text in Olafur Indian Sammer is a difficuit’book to Extra Innings. by Raymond Sous- Halldorsson’s new edition of read since nearIy every poem is charged ter, Oberon Press. 176 pages, $1 I .95 Graenlandinga Saga, published in with the same intense commentary. To cloth GSBN 0 88750 217 2) and S4.95 Reykjavik in G~neulanrir annual in me, it’s similar to journalism but much papertISBNO88750?180). 1975. The story originates fmm The tougher, realistic, and effective. The ‘. The Greenlenders Sags. by Grear Saga of Olaf Tqg8vason as it reason being that the lyrical quality to George Johnston. Oberon Press. 48 was copied at the end of the 14th the lines leads you into the ending. It oaacs. 57.9.5 cloth GSBN 0 88750 century into Flate&rbdk. or The Flat manipulates and twists the emotions ?I Island Bask. a book, as Johnston ex- until the statemept emerges. Cl -_~-h-7 -; Indtsn Summer, by R. G. Everson. plains in hi preface. considered to be Oberon Press. 95 pages, $7.95 cloth one of the “most famous and beautiful ._ ilSBN 0 88750 189 3). . . . and largest of the Norse manuscript 1 treasures.” It is a compilationof the EY C. Ii. GERVAIS ?afz of Olaf Tryggvason and Olaf the

~.EUEI~BER~NO A comment somewhere The story, of course, is one’ all that Raymond Souster is a “poet of elementary schoolchildren (at least in content” suddenly makes me realize my day) learned-the one of Leif the that essentially he is the Depression- Lucky and Eirik th,e Red. It is a tale of style journalist who bangs out stories voyages to the New World which with hard-boiled disgust, dedication, included actually Baffin Island, Lab- and joy. He packs them with informa- rador, and Newfoundland, which Leif. tion, data: and colour. His latest, Ernur Eiiksson called Ratstotie Land. Forest Land, and Vineland. The tale doesn’t Iwdttgs. IS really just what it suggests New Province& Poems of Several - a continuation of his other work, an end with Leif. however. but includes subsequent voyages and attempts toward Authors, introduction by Michael untittished game he has been playing Gnarowski. U of T Press, 114 pages. since hc became a poet. settlement, including one by his brother ThorvaId, who was killed bjthe inhabit- $12.5Oclottt (ISBNO 803033464) and The lines are histories (or score $4.95 paper QSBN 0 8020 6299 7). sheets?) of his time and people. The ants in Vineland. scenes are of the street - newsy. It’s hard to tell whether the transla-. lion k good. since 1 have no concept of By DAVID MCFADDEN eventful, coiotnfid. and the people might have stepped out of a Bt-ueghel the difficulty of reading Icelandic; but the stories are eventful, short, and JUuGtNO FROM A.J.M. Smith’soreface painting. The view is at eye level. of to the 1egenda.v New Pro&es. a standing across the street and gazing colourful. If I can believe Johnston., he has indeed captured the plain, sertous preface that was rejected when the book into the lives of others. And like the was published in 1936 but which is journalist (or poet) Souster combines style of tbe author. Ron Everson’s style is obviously included in this remint, the uoets the eyes of the 1930s street painter, included considered ‘themselves’sup photographer. philosopher. and his- quite different. The opening of Indian Swnmer sets the tone of this poet. He is remely avant-garde, messianic. The torian. City life bums his eyes. His whole tone of this amazing preface words iing on the page. The feeling of someone not at all comfortable in the world in which he lives. He is intoler- seems to belie Michael Gnamwski’s the work is like that of the dark, moody claim that New Provinces was an Brassai photographs of Parisian ant, bitter, uneasy, sultry, and cutting in his criticism. “Toshogu Shrine.” for “entirely unpretentious antholow.” street-walkers and French dance halls Smith, ahuady in his early 30s. an- during the hey-day of Henry Miller and example, takes a dim view of the beneXits of “free euterprise.” It relates nounces the publication of this anthol- Tropic of Cancer. A lot of Souster’s. ogy wtll setve a death sentence on the work is like this-dipping into activity an encounter with a Japanese monk, who said: Ipoet who is not “vitally concerned with ’ and exchange in the hive of gossip and red experience . . the half-baked, the unseemly. ribald, earthy. and hyper-sensitive. poorly adjusted, and I &sty world of strangen and charac- . nrtdf~cenrcrprircapptarFd Ibe zame ddq 10 hbn frequently neurotic individual that no ters. one in his senses would trust IO drive a There ate also verse letters (“To A bwb b&a lrrs,em rank nmrrrlal~m car or light a furnace..” Of course this Cointemporary. ” “The Whole Stupid lo his mpic mkd. preface t+ws rejected in favour of a Gume”t that reflect the directness. and milder one by F. R. Scott. and so in a peaonjlity.or~~~ne\vs~p~ columns. Bverson is probably best suited to sense Michael Gnamwski is right, the As I say. Err0 Innings is o continua- this 8ind of poem, since his one-linen book did seem much less pretentious tion of Sousler’s approach to his times. are so dbect and stinging that they than if the preface had stayed. If I’m It conjures up the nostalgia of the sjmplify his sociological and political right in thinking the five poets included streets. The “Ford Hotel” poem. the assessments. In the poem “Kwangbok did feel supremely avant-garde, mes- lunch counters. the paddy wagons, the Dong Street”, For example, he starts sianic, and Smith’s preface was rejected elections - all places and events out with, the romantic image of a, because they didn’t want anyone to bringing back a view of how things Korean girl atop a bicycle being driven know they felt that way, then it’s an were andstill are. Souster. probably the by a boyfriend. The next stanza com- interesting story and says a lot about best city poet in this country, ignores ments on their joy, saying all “young Canada in the 1930s. and perhaps even 24 Books in Canada, August-September. 1977

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Postal code August-September, 1977, Books In Canada 27 in the 1970s in these post-Layton times. mingled climates, -May-September The country did need this anthology, triteness. nndifthesefivepoets hadn’tcomealong Which only goes to show.. they would have had to be invented arid Skelton’s “callsiam” are indeed maybe they were. who knows? Maybe episodic, but in my view self- Robert Finch, Leo Kennedy, A. M. E?=oi whs bunt indulgently so, an insufficiently self- Klein, E. J. Pratt, F. R. Scott and critical gathering of memories and A. J. M. Smith were all noms deplume ~@r&xllr$Y naDs= journeys and readings and jomnal- of Ezra Pound. jottings, lit occasionally with reflec- Although the historical importanceof tions (both senses of that word) fmm &IV Provimes can be acknowledged CalMgus, by Robin Skelton, Sono and upon scenes of real illumination, without hesitation, it seems absolutely Niis Press. 94 pages, cloth unpriced beauty, learning, sadness-but finally incredible howlittleofthe writing could’ USBN 0 919462 00 6) and $4.95 paper not doing it, not getting through, the possibly have any meaning to anyone (ISBN 0 919462 02 2). coded calls reaching us as though from today, especially when so many people Because oflove, by Robin Skelton, no identifiable, serious human source; continue to rediscover and derive oleaa- McClelland & Stewart, 96 pages, . and since tbii is art and not raw life, it’s we from the almost parallel G&p of no defence, I must feel, to argue that Seven. The book didn’t sell at all and $4.95 __QaQer (ISBN 0 7710 8189 8). this is the point, that all our “calls” and probably served as an artifact to a “signs” are random, ofvarying clarity generation of later poets who used it to By DON COLES and deDth. and unQredictable in value. discover what in quafity.. ’ they didn’t have to bother VERY INTERESTING conjunction, these attempting. 4 latest two of Robii Skelton’s collec- However. Because of Love beats all There is one fine anti-war poem tions ofpoems, gettin on now towards those odds; takes no iote of pail or (“TestoftheOath”)byE. J.hatt.who 30 in all. That’s a lot 0spoetry to tap out triumphs. was considered the old fogey of the toward the world, a lot of messages or Desire, sensuality, the transiency of group. and who ironically later wrote “callsigns.” to use his own term; life and beauty; the rrisrezza. the sad “Dunkirk” in a glorious fit of militaris- almost certainly too many, too much. animal; Yeats comes to mind, welcome tic passion. And there are a couple of Though maybe, as with lovemaking, apparition: good - and lasting, perhaps even it’s a matterofkeeping the flow moving lfmy love II~E In nt)anm timeless - political pieces by F.R. so that the richer passages: when they mdiffhe nigh, wvmlot,g Scott. A.M. Klein’s passion sounds whereason would I hmr m wmc,, come, will find the condmts easy and rke silence inn rang? pretty naive and over-dramatic to our open. That’s a hint at what’s ahead, and cars. but it’s still assiob and it reminds the analogy is not accidental. Because of Love moves easily and one that Dylan Tl!omas as a child could convincingly fmm emtic fme-verse de have been reading Klein. Tbe whole What’s so interesting hem is that in tail to the highly crafted rhythms of book reminds one that Canada was once one of these collections, Callsigns, a elegy, of prayer, and of. the poet rells us - and perhaps still is in a way - a 30-book and H-year-old poet has set in a prefatory .note., early Welsh forms, country where people thought tred himself the task of recording, as he including an epdogue based on a looked like “enormous brooms stuck says. “the texture of living, the 14th-century Welsh poem (“St&as of handle down in snow” (from Robert episodic disconnected way in which Hearing”). It survives a chancy pro- Finch’s “Window-Piece”) and felt life goes on, huubled by messages it logue to take the reader into one of the compelled to tell others. Thank God we receives, troubled by messages it at- most consciously vulnerable and don’t have to go through that again. tempts to send”; and that the other lucidly observed accounts of erotic love Nevertheless. it’s wonderful to have book seems to be, by virtue of its art and that I havenminto in along time: rifted the booltback in print, thanks tothe.IJof unobtrusive craft, a near-direct tram- with, alternately, vibrancy and joy, loss T Press’ Literature of Canada/Poetry cription of k love-encounter between an andlonging; but abweall, unarguably; and Prose in Reprint series, under the older man and a young girl. honest, troth-witnessing. general editorship of Douglas Loch- The odds, you would think, would The book builds, is cumulative in head. Poetry doesn’t have to be goQd to have to be long on the former, short on design and purpose, one-story one- be important, and tbis book deserves a the latter: the retrospective and mature love, which means that quotation may much~closer look than I can give it gleanings of life-wisdom witming out, distort or mislead. But here, to give you here. 0 surely, over that perilous venture into a sense of its core-continuum, its

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eriea of Wee reading texuiar Gmdss 1; 8. of conscription from the French regime Md’ 9. this series demonrtnta many us&d Matcll for . .,rn . critical techniques for reading * variuy of thmugh m the unification debate of the matertats mnging fmm lyilc 90eiq ta algebra 1960s. does reveal a weak- ZANADIAN CHILDREN’S pmbhs. ness. It is not conscription per SC but 4NNUAL 1978 the conscription crises of the two world cover by Ken Danby! i,,nth Is 13, by Frank Ebos and Bob Tuck. TbamasNekonandSwr. lids is tbelhtt in a Iapar - $4.95 cloth - $6.95 retied of Canadian meuic mathematiu Iexts designed m bwcdua studen& to the new ters on the period beforethe Fit World concepn in mathematics. War, the inter-war years, and the Cold War seem weak end somewhat out of SOCIAL STLKIIRS place mnext the discussions of the crises of 1914.1942, and 1944. Theirconclusion. conscription,when

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_-_ - _...___ -..___ . .._ I_.----_-.--_- _ --.I-... -- --- the French and English segments of the hi und&oite the least alteration - population. In the first crisis, political simple textual revisions have been parties were tom apart, riots and t made throughout and a lOpage addl- disobedience were widespread, and the tion formed into an extra chapter. To ‘*race question” in its most ugly form my way of thinking, the whole survey is c3me to the fore. While the situation more past politics than balanced hii- WrItten lna non-technical style, ras not as tramatic in 19&+ as in 1917, tory, and that is particularly Ime of the this work provides an easy-to-read, it is safe to conclude. as the authors do. added chapter. Admittedly, it is thoughtful and current intmdua that Cauada’s experience with con: difficult to write of current affairs in tion to the Canadian legal system. scription illustrates that history repeats anything except political terms, but the It eoyen both the theoretical and itself. Alauy Canadians had learned effort should be made. To give an the praetieal aspects of th? law. From the first experience. but it was too example, the emergence in the 1960s little, mu late. aad 1970s of the women’s movement is Whh each succeeding turnabout in something of enduring social impor- p&y, Quebec’s view that English tan!!, and, incidentally of no little The first C&da. no matter who led it, would {~h;~xmsequence; it should at least general treatise, insist on having hs way was more deeply ingrained in the collective polit- on the law Further, &Naught’s analysis in Canada ical consciousness of the province. It is terminates in aid-1976, and it is a pity this long-term perspective that is impor- that his’ editors did not see fit to delay tant in judging the effects of conscrip revised publicatiOn until after the tion in Canada. It is clear that the Quebec election of Nov. 15. For better traumatic effects of the conscription or for worse.. the course of Canadian crises on the Canadian nation are still history swerved on that date. Even if it being felt. q hadn’t, the addition of a paragraph or two could have made McNaught’s account much more contemporary and given it an extended shelf-life. As it is. his narrative ‘ably demonstrates the opportunities for a possible Parti Qu6becois victory. Gmnatstein and Stevens admit to two omkiim in theii book: a full chapter on the North has yet to be included, and by Gerald L. Gall The Pelican History of Canada the section on the growing field of (revised edition), by Kenneth ~labour history is also much too brief. &lcNaught, Penguin, 350 pages. $2.95 But all the other fruskating difficulties papertISBN 014 02 JO83 0). of the first edition appear to have been Canada Since 1367: A Biblio- grllphical Guide (reyised edition), by removed, for example, the index is now C!ovmge is given to the hi&k- J.L. Gmnatstein and Paul Stevens. much more comprehensive, and greater iwl developments of the legal Samuel Stevens, 198 pages, $9.95 attention has been paid throughout to system from its Brltlsh sources, Its cloth and 94.95 paper.. useful works that have appeared in wnstitutloml structure, the court journals and periodicals. The very ex- hlerarehy, the training and stan- By ROGER HALi cellence of this little book points to the dard of judges and Iawya, the need for a complementary volume on fundamental prlnclples underlying IN DEFERENT ways, the unrevised ver- prc-Confederation Canada. 0 , the function of the courts and sions of these two books have become ___ I . . .._ C. _ .-..“*-u -ux new directions within the system. “minor classics” of Canadian history. This new and comprehensive work It could be argued that Prof. Is essential reading for anyone who hIcNaught’s straightforward 1969 wants a better knowledge of the Penguin has been asuccess not so much law In Cauada. for what he said as for where he said it. L459-31720 1977 The volume was one of the first mass- 380 pages $26.60 he. market uauerback survevs of Canada’s ast: m&&x it remshed significant 1’ecause of its global diskibution - for The Anarchist Reader, edited bjr many throughout the world the book is George Woodcock, Fontana (Collins), the only accessible, cheap introdue- 383’pages, 83.95 paper (ISBN 0 00 lion to Canada. Pmfs. Granatstein and 634011 3). ‘U Stevens’ guide to post-Confederation THE Canadian historical writing has de_ . By IAN YOUNG veloped. smy it was first released m CARSWELL COMPANV 1974. mto a avounte for. students and cjaixwx woorxxc~ is well known as LIMITED . researchers alike. In a single volume, an advocate and scholar of anarchism. eight specialists surveyed their particu- Hi prolific writings have, included a 2330 Midland Avenue, lar fields of historical interest, picked “histdry of libeitarian ideas and Agincourt,‘Ontario out the best work, and in clear. unclut- movements” and biographies of God- MIS lP7 tered prose. explained their choices. win, Pmudhon, Kmpotkin, and Wide. Now the hvo books have appeared in The Anarchist Reader is his compen- wised form, although the basic for- dium of anarchist teats from Godwin. mats have nti been changed. As far as and Max Stlmer to ihe present day. the tests are concerned. the McNaught The emxpts deal not only with

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__.. _ govmment and revolution but also aims. Extemally. dwe is the same de- v.~th education, crime and punishment, velopment of military pow. whit the wage system, ecology, and other means mnaucrt: inlemallv. Ulere is !he same empl6ym&t ol amiid fared, the social issues. They are diverse, cogent, last argumevt OF all threatened pplitical sometimes profound. But what is most powem, y?,vt the “es who. !ued of striking about these writings from three always be ,eumg. hqnng. acceptmg and centuries is their timeliness and rele- obeying. rise to rebellion. vance to&y. Benjamin Tuck& 1888 essay on Canadian Wildflowers,’ by Mary The criticisms of state socialism, for “Stqe Socialism and Anarchism” is Ferguson and Richard M. Saunders, example, are devastatingly apt. Van Nostrand Reinhold, illusaated, Michael Bakunin. writing long before one 6f the strongest pieces in the book, 192 pages, $19.95 cloth (ISBN 0 442 any communist regime had come to pointing up the stark contrast between “the doetine that all the affairs of men 29850 1). power. comniented on Marx’s prescrip- Wildflowers of Alberta, by tion for a socialist state: should be managed by the government R. G. H. Cormack. Hurtig, illustrated, regardless of individual choice” and 432 pages, $10 cloth (ISBN 0 88830 “the doctrine that all . . . should be 127 8). m&ged by individuals or voluntary Wildflowers Across The prairies, associations.” by Fenton R. Vance, James R. Jowsey, This anthology would be even skonger if work by recent writers such and James S. McLean, Western Pm- as Murray Rothbard and Karl Hess ducer Rairie.Books, illustrated, 213 were included. Even without them, it pages, $14.95 cloth (ISBN 0 919306 provides a refreshing and radical poli- ;; ;;,aod$8.95 paper(ISBN0 919306 tical manifesto. 0 By DALE HOY

AMID THE FLOTSAM of hastily prepared’ and sloppily written wildflower books flooding the market today, it is a joy to find a book of the high quality and polish of Canadian Wildflowers. The authors havecmftcdasterlingcombins- tion of fine photographs that are botani- cally accurate as well as artistically ingenious, with a text that is informal, informative and easy to read. This book is a delight for amaleura as - well as professionals. While at times the fwct becomes a little too elaborate, the au~ors have tried to convey the sense of wonder and discovery of a visit to a marsh. a meadow, a woodland, or an Arctic OT alpine habitat. Their dis- cussion is entertaining and non- technical. exploring the tdiosyncrasies of each plant, much as if they were dear, old friends, complete with interesting and amusing anecdotes. Tips for identification of the flowers are given as well as Fheir distribution in Fo;;;, and the time of year that they

Wd~owers of Alberm is a reissue of the 1967 field guide, appealing to amateurs and professionals al&e. Most of Alberta’s wildflowers are described in outlines, *accompanied by a pboto- graph. A paragraph following this de- scrlption elaborates further on the identihcation and interesting facts about the plant. Unfortunately, the photographs are sometima inadequate IEPORE THE DAYS d Pmnmr and SX-70s. between 1900 and 1920. This photograph is un and arenot on thesamepageasthet. ~icmrewking was a very serious burinus in- usual because not only is the young woman hold However the quality of the text m&es rd. Amund d,e w-n of dx cenmry. in bun- ing a my rifle. she also seems ID be having fun up for the failings of the pictures. reds of Ccomdian tow- and villages, photog- perhaps she has just camered a suilm a I Dr. Cormack intmduces each family aphur such as Duncan Donovan were at wxk, naughv child dipping inJo the cc&c jar. 0 wezing in solemn eamnmess the m-zmonial maybe she is acting a role in a local theafrica of plants with a short discussion of their uses between cradle and grave. City Work at pmdwtion. 1,‘s all leasant biit idle speculation unifying characteristics. The’ wild- ~unlry Prices: The PortraIl Photographs cd since the recnds o? [he photograph have bea flowers are then individually discussed hmcan Donovan (edited and with m immduc- lost. All lhq remains is a pielure of a l&y with i within their families. This armogemeot ion by Jennifer Hatper. Oxford Univasily gun. Da with it what you will. tis. M wes. $6.95 ppsr, LSBN 19 540275 is botanically sound. But keys to the 1 is a collection of some OF the plates he made families, which would help the reader to find a plant he wishes identified, are

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- . - -_ -.._ _-- not given. Aa index to flowerc$ouris tkest in biological issues, bird- provided and in order to identify a watching has come of age and is the tlov:er, each entry under the colour fastest-growing outdoor activity in must be looked up separately. This can North America (skate-boarding ex- be tedious, espe&lly if you must look cepted). A number of publishers, par- up 123 enties m discwer you are ticularly smaller ones, have responded looking at a Yucca - that is, if you with intelligence and taste and these haven’t already given up. Cormack four books demonstrate the variety defends the absence of keys on the currentIv available m eraduates of the grounds that the book is non-technical. Birds in Peril, by John P. S. Mack- recognition manual. - Hovxver. if flower colour is to be the enzie, illustrated by Tqence Shortt, John MacKenzie’s Birds in Peril is main method of identification, then Pagurian Press (McGraw-Hill Ryer- almost identical in fom,at to hi earlier xmngement of the book based on son), 191 pages, $14.95 clotb.(ISBN (and excellent) Birds of Canada and colour would have been more practical. 0 07 082538 6). Easrerrr, North America. Here, how- Messrs. Vance, Jowsey. and Wild Birds of Canada and the ever, Mackenzie focuses on the en- McLean have made the same error of Americas, by Terence Shortt. dangered state of some 32 species aod organization in compiling Wildpowers Pagmian Press (John Wiley & Sons) sub-species of North American birds. .&TOSS the Prairies. They have further 264 pages, $14.95 cloth (ISBN aggravated the problem by placing the 0 88932 057 8). ~:~&~gE%ht?z%dzf E Ez plants in orderoftheir families andthen Rails of the World, by S. Dillon many realize only 99 cbnstantly neglecting m point out where families Ripley, with 41 paintings by J. Fen- threatened whooping cranes stand be- begin and end, except in the index. The wick Lansdowne. M. F. Feheley Pab- tween the species and its extinction? Or vdue of arranging plants in fa.milies is lishers (5 Dmmsnab Road, Toronto), that the giant (nine-foot wingspan) to convey a sebse of plant relatiooships 430 pages, $75 cloth or $400 in a California condornownumbera itifol to the reader. In failing m designate the limited edition (1sB.N 0 919880 07 x). 50? Mackenzie tells the story o!each families. the arrangement becomes Fo#wamp: Llvmg wth &vans in bird in neat, comprehensive chapters meaningless. This major flaw is unfor- the Ilderncas, by Trudy Turner and that detail their history, present state, tunate since the book’s format is Ruth M. McVeigh, Hancock House, and probable futme. He fiather pm- appealing-the photographs are good illustrated, 288 ages, $10.95 cloth vide a thomugh account of the endan- and plentiful and the line drawings help (ISBN 0 919654% 3 0). gering factors (loss of habitat, p&i- to accentuate key characters. A whole tides, predation) and indiiates which page is devoted m each wildtlower, By BRIAN NEWSON remedies have been kicd and which giving both botanical and common remain to be tried. His account of the names, descriptions and comparisons TEN YEA& ~60 bird-watchers (or bii- steps taken by conservationists m p to closely related plants. The language dcrs. as thti call themselves) were Serve the whoooen reads lie hi& is not technical, and an illustrated synonymousivirh eccentricity, tweeds drama. Where oiher ornithologists &a glossary is included m clear up any in the bush. and bad jokes. Today, content with a mere mention of habitat, ambiguity. Cl thanks to greatly increased public in- Mackenzie is careflll throughout to

94 Bco!(s In Canada, August-Septamber. 1077 place the bii and its problems in a interview wirh Shortt -Ed.] ing two would-be. outdoorsmen from complete environmental context. If Shortt is a master at depicting biis New York, the subject of an hilarious A bonus in Mackenzie’s book is the i;l their_ mercurial quickness, J. Fen- anecdote. Neither sentimental nor inclusion of 20 colour platesand many wick Lansdowne, whose 41 paintings sanctimoniaus. this is a clear-eyed &zhes by Terence Shortt. some of illuStrate S. Dillon Ripley’s mono- portrait of wilderness living, ‘its few mhich suggest in a brash stroke the graph on Rails of fhe World. must now comforts, ‘and its many possibilities evanescence of the species. Inter- rank as one of the world’s great bird - the whole sweetened by solitude, nationally famous for his illuSfrati0nS painters in the tradition of Audubon’s silence. and swans. 0 for other authors, Shortt demon- composed, formal portraits. Indeed, strates his own considerable skills as a there is a wonderful 19th~century opul- writer in Wild Birds O/ Canada And ence’ to this production. wti.ch recalls T/w Americas. Shorn has been sketch- the days when institutions such as the ing pirds for more than 50 years, and a Smithsonian (to which Ripley has been lifetime’s observation and study is secretary for 25 yea@ published sump- evident in his prose as well as in his tuous. encyclopedic volumes on every- painting. His discussions of bids okn thing from birds to Indian basketry. begin with an anatomical description: This beautiful book comes complete and by examining a loon’s leg, for with I7 maps. an additional 35 illus- example, he can tell a great deal about trations, and an impressive price-but that bird’s evolution, behaviour. and even at $75 the paintings may be a RCAF: Squad&s and Aircraft, environment. An expert himself, Shortt bargain. bv S. Kostenuk and J. Griffin. Samuel has the uncommon abilig to convey hii The subtitle of Turner and Stevens, 255 pages, $19.43 cloth knowledge in ways even the most McVeigh’s Fo~snwmp aptly describes (ISBNO 3173860). casual natural historian will find fas- this book, whvzb is only incidentally cinating. To read about his biis is to about swans. Trudy Tamer is the By sm4R-r SUTHERLAND understand something essential about daughter of Ralph Edwards, who is the them and their environment. subject of Lelsnd Stowe’s wilderness IT HAS ALWAYS been all axiom among The book includes 110 drawings and classic Crusoe of Lonesome Lake. In Canadians that we are essentially an- 67 colour plates: the ones I’ve seen are Fogswamp, she tells with McVeigb’s military. One consequence has been a beautifully reproduced.. The paintings help the story of how she gradually took lack of interest in our military history tar studies, as Shortt insists on c%ng over the task of feeding the once- -perhaps because it would tell us that them) characteristically include one threatened swans from her father, while when we have had to fight, we have huge profile of the subject surrounded making a life of her own in the wilds. tended to be an efficient and dedicated by anatomical details or miniatures of But while her existence in the remote people. The publication of RCAF: the bird in flight. The drawings are Coast Chilchotin country continues to Squadrons and AircraJi will probably tastefully incorporated into the text, revolve around her family and the therefore be greeted with the same making the book pleasing to look at as swannery, there is ample time for wry cynical reaction that many of us reserve v:ell as to read. [Stir page 41 for an observations on other wildlife, includ- for nationalism. This is a pity, since we

I YEARS OF SORROW, YEARSOF SHAME ‘THE COMMON TOU& The Japanen Canadims in World War If XA. Keenleyside Rwry Ewdfoy Amidst a rising tide of violeoca and unrest. James Ruthsr- Here is the dramatic, shocking and heartbmaking stay of ford. a Canadian diplomat stationed in tbe fictional muntly the almost 23.000 Japanese-Canadians livfng on the west of Bubra, Is able to play a crucial role In that countrv’s coast of British Columbia, who were uprooted’and sent to in- stNpQle for independence. This is a penatmting and dramatic ternment camps in 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl explo~don in ffction of a real and uroettling nsw era in the Harbour. The story is told in the words of those who actually history of third world nations. S9.95 lived it. $12.50 . CYCLONE TAYLOR: BARTLETT: A HOCKEY: LEGEND Tha Great Canadian Explorer by Eric Whitehead Chrofd Horwvod If Fred “Cvclons” Taylor w= not the greats&hockev A splendid biognphv of Captain Robert Eartlsp who was. player who ever lived he was certainly tbs game’s greatest by common co-t, the greatwt its navigator of this showmsn. His career spans the whole history of the modem century - a maste~_ssafarer who lent his daring and expsrtise same of fiockev - fmm its pioneering davs to its eventual ta the expeditions of Pew and many other Arctic pioneers. ~lm~rwnce as a big-tims money sport. 95.95 SB.95 WANTED: DONALD MORRfBON SIDEHILLGOUDER The Story of the Msgantic Outlaw or What’s so Daadfv 4bout Catsrplllars? uw:e walfacc SYurne Den&on The true storv of one man’s fight against iniustica. sot in dae Here’s a funnv. lurtv and heartwarming novel about a young colourful Eastern Townships of Ouebac In thn 1880’s: man’s mmlng of ago in British Columbia. RossLorringeh Donald Morrison, falsely accused of murder svcceufully outrageous affair with his attractive voona high school eluded police for more than a year, and in dw process be- teacher sets off a boisterous chain of events that leads to B rams a folk hero to the ympatbetic populace. $8.95 strange and happy ending. SB.95

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mmmy ws discovered in the Wabi- government will not act until the In- documentation that makes No Safe goon. the Indians ate still fighting to dims start dying in droves. Place so damning to a legalistic soci- have the system closed to sport fishing. His arguments are frequently but- ” ety. But the insight into the shattered No legal action has been taken agahtst tressed bv eweruts from confidential lives of the Ojibway tribes, and the Reed Paper for the pollution, and the gwemm& aud~industry documents, comuassion for their situation. make it government refuses to compensate the revealed for the first time in thii book. every bit as important a book. Indians or lodge owners for lost liveli- Lest the reader miss a point, he draws These books are essential. It is not hoods for fear of setting a precedent. A attention to every inconsistency, every often that a professional jourualist will gowrnment Iawsuit laid in 1970 against contradiction, between what the find himself so angered by an issue that mermuy pollutets of Lake St. Clair is officials say and what tbey do. he will step outside his “objective” still dragging through the courts with His auger is honest and unashamed. stance and make an impassioned cry for no end in sight. But Troyer does more than vent his just&. When two top jour@its do so Now. two journalists who have co- anger; he passes it along to the reader. at the same time, over the same issue, vered the problem from its early stages Hutchison seems to havebeen noless then it is time for the rest of us tosit up have become sufficiently angered by outraged, although he is better able to and listen. 0 the Indians’ tragedy and government contain his anger. His book, lavishly obtuseness to write books laying the illustrated with Wallace’s stunning whole sad story before the public. photographs, kaces out the seven-year . Wamer Troyer. author of No Safe debacle in a more historical, nearly Place, has been widely acclaimed as an chronological manner. He has obvi- editor. columnist. and television jour- ously spent a great deal of time with the nalist. George Hutch&au, who wrote Indians over the years, and he describes Grusry Ferrous, is a reporter with the in heart-wrenching detail the disinte- London Free Press. He and photo-$ gration of the Ojibway societies since grapher Dick Wallace have each re- mercury was discovered. .’ ceived a national award for their cover- If Tmyer’s book is au explosive Deue Nation: The Colony Within, age of the mercury crisis. political statement, Hutchison’s is,? ‘edited by Mel Watkins, U of T Press, Tmyer refuses in his book to seek out moving human drama, where the polit- 19Opages. $12.50 cloth (ISBN 0 8020 the usual jourualist’s refuge of “bal- ical-atrocities are woven around the g2; ;] and $4.95 paper USBN 0 8020 unced coverage.” He offers instead a per&J tragedies of the victims. He damning indictment of government and follows a group of the Grassy Narrows Moritorium: Justice, Energy, the industry callousness. In 267 cerefully band to Japan in 1975 fora’visit with the North, and the Native People, by reseamhcd and documented pages, he crrppled and maimed survivors of the Hugh and Karmel McCuBum and John lays out a pattern of lies and deceit in Minimata disaster, a visit described Olthuis, The Anglican Book Centre, high places., aimed mainly at defusing with gut-wrenching pathos. ,It is a 208 Pages, $4.50 paper (ISBN the issue wthout doing anythin about shorter book than Troyer’s, more 0 919030 17 3). it. He makes it clear that the &itario easily read and lacking the wealth of Contact and Conflict, by Robin Fisher, University of British Columbia \ Press, 268 pages, $18 cloth QSBN 0 7748 0065 8). . .I By JOHN OUGHTON

THE DEBATES over regional justice and Confederation involving the Qu6becois and the Denb and Inuit of the Northwest Territories call the future of oursprawl- ing, affluent countryintoquestion. Can Canada last much longerns a federation operating primarily for the benefit of , anglophone Southerneis? Now that the much-awaited Berger report is out, these three titles are rendered both more relevant and yet somewhat redundant to the big questions of the North. Dene Notion and Moratorium deal with the economic and ethical ques- tions of the pipeline projects and Northern development. Yet they prob- sbly had less influence on the decisions of the National Energy Board and the federal cabinet than either the Berger report or the lobbying force of the multinational oil companies. But for Canadians anxious to understand some of the complex issues and history involved inthe pipeline and land-claim debates, all three of thewbooks can provide instructive reading. Thii reviewer must, however, echo \ . James Woodford’s comment on Dene N&ion that “the Dene deserve much better than this book.” It cannot be August-September, 1977. Books in Canada 37

-._.. _.- --.- __--. -.--- bulted for presenting the eloquent greater economic dependency were the I‘ . . . brilliant first novel” uguments of Dene spokesmen such as reai hazards to theIndiansou1. IiiistyIe Vancouver Sun ‘hilip Blake, Frank T’Seleie, and is passable and his arguments well- 3eorges Erasmus. Where pipeline ad- supported. Incidentally, he intmduces 0cates speak invaguejargon. theDene a delightful new Canadian martyr in the :oun.ter with speech bordering on person of Rev. Herbert Beaver, a white metry: Frank T’Seleie told Judge man who, for once, suffered at the 3erge.r: “We know . . . that five hands of a fellow white man. Rev. mndred years fmm now someone with Beaver was sent to Fort Vancouver in ;&in my colour and mocassins on his I836 to sanctify the fur trade, but bet will di up the Rampsrts [near disapproved of the rampaut popery and 3ood Hope] and rest and look over the loose morals of his compatriots. Bis iver and feel that he too has a place in criticism of the fort factor’s misness led heuniverse.” to his being “severely beaten in the But most Southemcrs are not famil- quadrangle of the fort” by that gentle- ,ar with the place of the Dene and man. Canadian epic poets in search of a Frobably were not even familiar with hero. are vou out tbe.re?O * he name (which, like “Inuit”, simply neans “the people”) before the Dene gation declaration of 1975 and the .and-claims proposal of 1976. Not until tome 30 pages have passed does the eader learn, for example, that the anguage of someof the tribes gathered under tbe ‘Dene appellation is Atha- Now in paperback! ~askan in origin. The economic and Encyclopedia of Indians of Can- Golonial issues are given adequate ada, Volume I, Scholarly Press Inc. PIG BULLS OF RONDA :&rage by editor Mel Watkins., and (1972 East Nine Milt Road, St. Ciair Ett2ene P. Benson $2.25 Peter Puxley. is instructive in pomting Shores, Mich.). illustrated, $65 or jut that the phrase ‘development” $395 for complete set of seven vol- should mean the whole being of man, umes, six of which are still to be and norjust his economic activities. To published (ISBN403 07217 4). iudge adequately the Dene Iand claim. nnd to learn more about the only native By JOHN LEONARD TAYLOR gmup in Canada with which our ~overnmcnthasnotmadelegalaaties, THIS YOLUME is an CxpenSive joke. To more. information on and from the Dene paraphrase Berger, the expense is in should have been included. Canada and the laugh in the U.S. The M0ratoriltm is a comprehensive, chronology, which occupies two thirds passionately argued study by Hugh and of Volume I, eontains 1,140 entries, Karmel McCullum, authors :of This only 57 of which (five per cent) relate to hd is bhfir Sale. It is definitely on Canada at all, 21 of those being gend the side of native claims and energy to tbez North American continent or mnservation. The McCuihuns argue beyond. This would be serious enough that the South can do without Northern even if the entries were both significant natural gas and that a reevaluation of and accurate. They are neither. On the the North’s relation to nature and native other hand, almosteverything ofimpor- peoples is ,werdue. Like. Berger. they tance has been left out. The Indian Act suggest a moratorium on pipeline work is mentioned only by implication in sn CANADIAN ART For at least 10 years and back up their item that misquotes the BNA Act. AND PHOTOGRAPHY Not a single Canadian treaty receives an ideas with impressive research. Ong entry. None of the significant court ARTICLES BY AND ASqUT may not agree with their left-of-centre view of white Northeners as “Canada’s judgments is mentioned. Readen of the UNUSUAL PEOPLE Rbodesians” but it is impossible to chronology would never leant of the WITH UNCONVENTIONAL ignore the extent of their involvement founding of the Hudson’s Bay Com- APPROACHES TO: pany, the North West Mounted Police, and sheer work. or the modern Indian associations. The SOCIAL ISSUES Conran and Conpi& is obviously year 1876 saw the first consolidated SPORTS, POLITICS Robin Fsher’s doctoral thesis. The text Indian Act passed. ip Canada and the ENTERTAINMENT could have benefitted from stream- SURVIVAL negobatton of Treaty Sm. Ty ERQ- WORK, HEALTH lining for the general reader, since riopedro entry for that year tel s us that each chapter csrries as many as 109 on a visit to Canada Queen Victoria PLUS: footnotes. Ahd how many general watched a game of lacrosse at Windsor, FICTION, POETRY readers can afford to pay $18 for this Ont. Need any more be said, except CHILDREN’S STORIES modestly produeed text? 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Neirher is Howard Adams mentioned, don that nuclear material from the 1-r although an American named Adams Canadian CANDU reaclor was used by found a place. India to develop nuclear weapons A five-page Canadian introduction dcmonstraled thar. as rhe author of this hxdly makes up for the deficiencies in book says, “it is not possible to Ihe rest of this volume. It simply sewes separate civil proliferation from mili- as a wrapper in which to peddle a tary. because rhe former is the means to shoddy productto therubes up north. 0 Ihe latter.” Farewell, the “peaceful mtom.” The Rebirth of Canada’s Indians, Dr. Knelma?. a Canadian envimn- by Harold Cardinal, Hurtig, 222 pages, menlalist, now 1s a professor in science $4.95 paper GSBN 0 88830 125 I). and human affairs at Concordia Univer- Paper Tomahawks. by James shy. His well-documented book illus- Burke, Queensron House, 406 pages, mites our vulnerability to nuclear haz- $2.95 paper(ISBN 0 919866 I7 4). ards and chizen helplessness in the face Angry Society, by Colin Alexan- of the “scientific numbers game” and der, Yellowknik Publishing, 202 Ncckar Energy: The UnforgIvIng phrases such as “acceptable dosage,” {;gy $4.95 paper (ISBN 0929140 Technology. by Fred H. Knelman, Hur- or “permissible risk.” Evenls have tig Publishers. 259 pages, $9.9.5 cloth already outdated some of Knelman’s [ISEN 0 85830 134 0) and $4.95 paper comments, such as hi remark that in By RON VERZUH . [ISEN 0 83830 118 9). rhe United States there is a “clear policy of relying on the breeder reactor NEW ITEM, dalelined Calgary: “The By CHRIS BLACKBURN as the longer-term energy tech- federal governmenl’s coup in luring nology.” U.S. Prcsidenr Carter now Indian militanl Harold Cardinal into the PROTESTS AGA~IST nuclear encrgy,havc has explicitly rejected the plutonium federal civil service is virrually un- %hiAed from the ban-the-bomb cam- fasi-breeder reactor and his new energy precedented.” Unprecedented. indeed. paign for nuclear disarmament to an policy, with irs emphasis on consena-. Cardinal’s acceptance of a %31,500- aucmpr 10 uonlrol civil nuclear hazards. tion to reduce energy consumplion and $4!,500 job with the Department of In hcadlinr terms, concern now focuses downgrading of the nuclear option, In&an Affairs and Northern Develop on the danger of a nuclev accident follows in general outline the energy ment is seen by many Indian leaders s through human error or mechanical strategy wornmended in this book. agrand sell%ut. failure f”Nuclear Accident - Emer- Yet pressures in highly industrialized The 3 l-year-old leader’s appoinl- gency Closure of Reactor”), on the countrie+ so continue a high rate of ment will no doubt destroy Ihe credibil- difficuhy of disposing effectively of domestiC nuclear construclion and 10 ity of parts of his second-book, The nucIeor wastes (“Port Hope Homes export advanced nuclear rechnologysm Rebirth qf Canada ‘s Indians. It may Built on Radioactive Landfill”). andon still strong. Knelman’s call for greater also boost sales for two competitors in rhe risk thar terrorists could get hold of accessibilily of information and for the 1977 Indian-book market: James nuclear materials (“Guerrillas Capture public discussion of this “uniquely Burke and Colin Alexander. Both are Nuclem Slation”). Further, Ihe revcla- threatening technology” is timely. 0 critics of Indian leadership.

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-.__ .:- __... .__ ..~._ _--. Rcbirdr describes bureaucrats as isn’t he? An Horatio Alger of the the year 2000. Who needs a bunch of “political blackmailers” and an enemy 1970s; Alexander’s theme is simple: “laissez-faim.&-gooders” who refuse who will “do their best to short- the Lord helps those Indians who help to tell natives “to get off their be- circuit” the fight for Indian rights. themselves. hinds”? Let them get jobs with the Cardinal now must eat those words. Rather than address himself to realis- pipeline companies, Alexander sug- The enemy is him! tic solutions to native problems, A&- gests, but “keep stringent controls on Early in his book, Cardinal warns ander, as the author’s note suggests, the activities of the uttiott.movetnettt.” Indian leaders to stop playing adversary “takes on the entire world.” He is We can likely expect new books to the government. “Our organizations more interest&d in making academic from all three writers in future. Cardi- have been sucked into doing things the pronouncements than in workable nal will write a scathing expos6 to be white man’s way.” he writes. But “OUT resolutions to native problems. He called Inside the Company. Alexander job is not so much to fight the govem- envisages native people rising to the will offer a second volume entitled merit.” He asks leaders to work co- challenge of free enterprise just as he How to Save rhe Univm.e. And one operatively with government. It is the has done. Alexander was educated at hopes Burke will ptwide’more well- vzish of the elders, he adds. Oxford. researched, insightful material on In- . Yet Rrbb-tb is ltigely a testament He wants Indian Affairs dissolved by dian problems. 0 of the insensitive govemment bureau- cracy’s failure to co-operate with In- dians. How then, do Indian leaders . irmtaew’ fight the “greed for power of Indian Affairs”? How is co-operation att an- swer. they might ask: Cardinal’s per- sonal answer seems to be: If you can’t lick *em. join ‘em. Birds fly over the rainbow and Terry Shortt The central theme of Rebirth is that lndians must “enshrine our rights into has spent a long, happy life following them ‘. legislation.” Surely this musfbe part of an espl;mation for Cardinal’s latest move? He now might be in a position to ntttttw9 snoarr Is an artist and natur- hunter. He ran red setters and used to “confirm and enforce by law the treaty ‘alist and there are many who believe he bring home all sorts of geese, ducks, tights of Indian people.” Cardinal has no equal as a bii paihter. He and FTakie chickens. I would wait up concludes that “the rebirth of the recently retired born his job as chief for him so I could see and feel them and Indian people is not going to be display biologist at Toronto’s Royal I can’t remember a tinie when I wasn’t achieved at the end of a gun barrel.” Ontario Museum, where he had worked fascinated by birds. When I was about In contrast, James Burke is more for46years. His book Wild Bi+ ofthe 12 he began to take me with him and I sympathetic to militancy. His book, “$ww~; ~=~;;~ ‘2;:;: ‘J; got to be pretty good with a shotgun. Paper Tornuhawks, exposes Indian and Thii was useful later on when I was government bureauracy as the real page 34. To find out more about the collecting specimens for the museum. problem facing the rank and file Indian. man and his work, Books in Cana& I gave up shooting for sport many years Where Cardinal merely hints at leader- asked bii and film-maker Bill Ban- ago. tiitg to interview him. Some years ago ship corruption, Burke documents it. BIG: When did you be& painting? A former employee of th6 Manitoba Bantbtg was present when Shottt col- Indian Brotherhood, he describes him- lected one of Darwin’s finches, the Shortt: My mother was an attist and self as a “white. bleeding-heart-libel Conirosttis, on‘ Santa Cruz in the she encouraged me to paint and draw. crusader.” He views Indian bumau- Galapagos Islands: “It was moving There were always materials about the cmts and government consultantr as withaflockof20ormoreotherfinches. house - watercolouts, oils, brushes, power-brokers vying for wnttol of Terry zapped it. The o!hers were un- and paper. Of course, the subjects first government money. while native peo- touched.? chosen were biis from the hunt. I was ple live misemble lives in paper shacks. Books in Canada: Te// us how you got a high-school dropout long before the A tireless researcher, Burke attempts to started. term was coined. I got a job in Eaton’s show how Indian organizations ate advertising department illustrating ads riddled with “Uncle Tomahawks” ‘Shortt: As Jack Miner used to say, “1 and then joined Brigden’s Winnipeg ~110 are as greedy for power and as was born a little .-foot boy” in printing house. Charles Comfort was insensitive to native needs as the gov- Winnipeg. My father. who worked’for there and he called the place The ernment that funds them. the railway, was a passionate bird Brigden School of Art. In tbosedays- He reveals Cardinal’s 197 l-72aalary 1928 - an artist couldn’t possibly as president of the Indian Association make a living p&tting pictures. Varley, of Alberta as $18.000, with $12,000 the Gmup of Seven. all.of them worked for expenses. But his most strident for printers to support themselves. attacks are against former Manitoba In 1929 things went a bit slow so I brotherhood leader Dave Courchene, went to work in the Bank of MontreaL described as a ‘*czar,” a “pot-bellied Here I was lucky. The manager was leader.” and a “squat, wavy-haired Charles Broley, Wbtnipeg’s leadbtg messiah.” amateur ornithologist. (There were no Burke will not be pleased by _ professionals bt Winnipeg at all.) &w Cardinal’s appointment. nor will he be ley sent five of my pictures to Percy surprised. He could have predicted it. Taverner [legendary ornilhologist and Finally, there ls Colin Alexander’s author of the monumental Birds of homemade book, Angry Society. He is C’moda] in Ottawa. Taverner replied his owtt publisher and badly needs att and I can still remember his words: editor. Unlike Burke, he will be “The boy is not yet a great bii mist, pleased with Cardinal. After all, the but he has that which may make him Ittdiatt leader is simply helping himself, one. I am returning three of the five Auguat-September;l977. Booksin Canada41

-. -.._ .-_-.-._---- ..--.-..--. -- ..-.- ._L . . . --. .--__-.--I..-.--..- -_--- . . . _ __--_ . . pictures and in liiu of the ‘other two I far apart (IS the High Arctic attd East dim Siography to assemble modest enclose my eheque for 10 dollars.” Africa. Were thepbitttittgs dottefor fhe book-length studies of important That was the greatest thing that ever ntlrscunr? figores not otherwise thus treated. The happened to me. Shortt: No, they were done as a books are inexpensively produced EiC: ll’hrlr brought you to the ROM? hobby.That’soneofthestrangethings. through the photo-reduction of type- I never did paint for the moseom except script. I-I. H. Stevens by Richard Wd- $Aortl: Pm lack again. My friend bur (244 pages, $9.50 cloth, U of T Ales Lawrence, who wrote a bird to illustrate Ontario and Arctic birds. Long before I joined the museum I had Press) is the sixth book in thii series. column for the Winnipeg Free Press. Although it’s not especially well writ- came East on a nip. He missed an started to make a record of rhe faces of tea. the story it tells makes it hard to pot appointment and to fill in time stopped birds and the head studies and portraits down. Stevens, a Red Tory. left in to see Lester Snyder at the ROM. were just a continuation of that. I guess Bennett’s cabinet in 1934 because of its Snyder complained that he hadjust lost it has been the consuming passion of lack of social concern to form the his assistannt and would probably never my life. Reconstroction Party. It’s interesting to find a replacement who was both inter- When I retired I had. all these studies speculate on what might have been had csled in birds and had artistic ability. - more than 1,200 of them. One day Stevens (a) joined the CCF as many Ales said he knew just the man so I Jack Mackenzie asked me to illustrate urged him to do, or (b) replaced landed the job. Imagine! I was getting an outdoorsman’s guide he was writ- Bennett as leader of the Conservative paid for working with b&Is! My first ing. Chris OndaaQe, his publisher, took Party,in the 1935 election. task v+s cleaning out boxes and mop a look at my collection and the result is ping floors. But Snyder’s colleague Jim the book published this month. I’ve got 8 * * Baillie soon took me under his wing - a show coming up at the McLaughlin and you couldn’t get a better teacher. Gallery that covers 50 years of my E(dward) K(illOran) BROWN (I901 work. The latest picture in it was done 1951) is known to CanLit specialists BiC: A~uclt ofyour time at &e tnuseum thisyear. It’s a robin the cat brought in for his collection of essays On Cana- IWS spent on expeditions to places as t?om the garden. 0 dian Poetry. The rest of hi work has been -unavailable unless one searched thmugh back issues of such by Morris Wolfe magazines 89 the Manitoba Arts Re- view and the Civil Service Revinv. David Staines of Harvard University has culled those magazines a?d assem- bled E.K. Brown: Responses and A transcontinental muncher muses about Evaluations: Essays on Canada ($3.50, 314 pages, New Canadian the Donnellys, Bricklins, and E. K. Brown Library). The title comes from E.K. Brown’s deiinition of the critic as “a sensitive reader who caa explain his ONCE AGAIN I’ve been travelling in fiction, but a “Cbmplete and Authentic resoonses and evaluations.” Bmwn not Canada: once again I’ve used Anne Account Illustrated With Photographs ?niy explains hii responses and evaloa- Hardy’s Where to Eat in Canada as a of Canada’s Famous Feuding Family.” nons, he. does so in prose that’s never guide - this time the 1977178 edition The photographs and other documents less than a pleasure to read. My favour- 1297 pages, $4.95 paper, Oberon) - re@uced here are interesting but the ite Brown essay, “The Neglect of and once agtin I’ve been. delighted. If text is overloog; it tells me much more American Literature,” appeared in anything, the book seems to get better than I want to know. Lawyer Ray Saturday. Night in 1931. In it Brown with age. It’s a pleasure not only to eat Fazakas’ “exhaustive research” is ex- complains that universiry graduates in one’s v:ay through Hardy but also to hausting. Canada “go out to teach English with- read her for such gems as: “Sault Ste. * a * Marie: We really have nothing to Lowell. a poem of tiiiman or tinier, recommend in the Saolt. Local people, APART’FROM Breakwater in Newfound-. or a novel of Hawthome or Hemy who seem to be even more given to land. regional publishing in Eastern James. In only one of our universities is babbiuy than most. tell us that you Canada has been much less vigorous American literature given a place more should try one of the following: the than has regional publishing in the generous than Anglo-Saxon is given.” New Marconi, Cesira’s. the t&well, West. Brunswick Press (Box 3370, * 4 * the Porterhouse and Basanti’s Small Fredericton) maybe worth watching, at Frye. We have.” least to judge by Bricklin (137 pages, ELLEN ROSEMAN and Phil EdmonsMn’S * ‘* ::: $6.25 paper). Authors H.A. Freder- Canadian Consumers’ Survival icks and Allan Chambers tel1 the story Guide .(347 pages, $6.95. General) THE OONNELLY industry is at it again. A in fascinating detail of how that delight- seems hastily put together. Still it’s Donnelly movie is on its way, based on ful scoundrel, Malcolm Bricklin, hard to imagine a user of the book who a screenplay .by film-makers Leonard hoodwinked the NeW Brunswick gov- wouldn’t get back many times $6.95 in Yakir and Murray Markowitz, Now ernment into giving him millions of savings. It’s curious, therefore, that William Crichton has turned their dollars to build a car. Bricklit+ it turns consumer books such as this don’t sell screenplay into a novel, The qonnelly out, had never built anythmg that better than they do, especially when Murders (173 pages, $1.95: paper, worked. If enough New Brunswickera one considers’ the amount of money Paperlacks). Yakir, Markowitz. and read this book, the Haifield government people seem willing to poor into com- Chrichton’s Donnellys are martyrs - will have trouble getting reelected. paratively valueless psychological poor misunderstood sools beset by self-help books. insensitive neighbours. Any harm they * * * * * t do is because, well, boys will be boys. .’ Ray Fazakas’ The Donnelly Album, THE CANADMN Biographical Studies TIDBI’TS: Broadcasting in Canada, by on the other hand, (311 pages, $12.95 series m&es use of original research E. S. Hallman (90 pages, $5.95 paper, paper. Macmillan) offers us, not collected for the Dictionary of Cma- General), provides an excellent brief

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.~.______L--....-.-.--.~_i.=,. _ ‘_. _ . - __..-_.-- ..-- iupoduction to pmtably the most corn: f$a;d broadcastmg system in -the on/oE/s& by Len Gasparlni v . . . The Csnadmn Film 1 Digest’s 1977 Yearbook (176 pages, Film Publications of Canada, 175 Eloor Street East, Toronto) is the best Some lively sparks, a light in the basement, an available collection of statistical and other information on the Canadianfilm exploding’head, and the usual lamentations. industry. Did you kuow that Canadians paid their way into movie theatrees 247 A CURIOUS hd seemingly unavoidable books I review in tfds column provide a’ million times in 1952, the year jele- situation is developing in our publish- vivid cross-s&on of what is happen- vision came to Canada, but only 84 ing indushy, esptiially with books of ing in Canadian poetry. million times in 1975?. . . MarkSatin’s poetry. Toronto has long been the In Quebec, New Delta Press, an New Age Politics: The Emerging dominating power, but that is quickly offshoot of Louis Dudek’s erstwhile Nelv Alternative to Marxism and changing. Book publishing has become Delta Books, has released four new Liberalism (84 pages, $1.50’ pa er, decentmliid to the extent that pub- collections of poetry: Sparks, by Fairweather Press, 2344 Spruce !3t., lishers outside of Ontario have gone Michael Harrii (56 pages, $2 paper); ‘Vancouver) is worth a look. It’s an strictly regional, and that worries me The Road io Argitios, by David Sol- intelligent attempt-in the tradition of because it is unhealthy. I have dii- way (65 pages. $2.50 paper); and such vniters as Theodore Roszak - to cussed ‘this unfortunate phenomenon Milarepa (98 pages, $2.50 paper) and synthesize a number of current trends with fellow poets, magazine editors, Left Hand Mind (96 pages, $2.50 . . . Twentieth Century Canadian and several book publishers, and the paper), both by Richard Sommer. Composers by Ian L. Bradley (222 consensus is, to quote Grain editor Sparks is ‘a lively volumk pf short’ pages. $10 cloth, G.L.C. Publishers, Caroline Heath in a letter to me, that poems. The themes Harris writes about 115 Nugget Avenue, Agincourt, Ont.) “the range of our publishing iudusby is are universal, and his imagery boils is not a good example of the book- too limited, and regional publishing is with fresh poetic diction, as in “The making art. But it performs an impor- not an answer to that.” Pczhaps thii Poet at Seaside,” where he says “the tant function in offering a descriptive situation is a backlash to Toronto’s best the sealcould leave me,’ is wet. analysis of works by 10 composers smug literary incest; perhaps it goes goosebumpy, coldfevery I as if once recorded by the CBC and available deeper, having something tu do with my skin-chilled hide I had feather for through the Cauadicin Collection. the paranoid issue concerning the cover.” The collection is slightly un- Composers included are: Healey Wil- divisibility of this country. But what- even, but some of the oems maintain Ian. Claude Champagne, Si Ernest ever the reason, one thing is certain: the graceful stability pPa keel. Campbell MacMillan, Mutiay Adas- them is a mania to get into print Solway’s The Road IO Arginos is kin, John Weinzweig, Jean Papineau- regardless of geographical dictates and Hellenically inspired, Hebraically felt, Coue, Robert Turner. Harry Freed- cultural relay m&s. As always, the Fd heuristically recorded - truly a man. Rem Mercure, sud.R. Murray poets grumble and growl. Everybody neoclassical task. The poems are sttue .,, Schafer. Cl wants a piece of the action; At least the tured in neat stanzaic patterns with

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--.-__... _ i_-.3c_,. vtious rhyme schemes; sometimes the readings at the House on Gerrard. The When the Animal Rises fmm the metre is overdone, but, the poems poems in his new collection are wistful Deep the Head Explodes, by Ludwig manage to caphlre lhe essence of their and delicately imagistic. There is an Zeller (Mosaic Press/Valley Edition+ subject matter. “The Journey,” “In almost deliberate avoidance of cyni- I33 pages, $5.95 paper). This beautt- Defence of Marriage,” and “The &m and anger, and PlanNs seems N * fully prbned book containes 15 sur- Piano in the House in the Woods” are have achieved a certain polish and reallit poems and 17 collages. It is a excellent examples of Solway’s Nlmt. visionary splendor. “XneelNg at Your trilingual edition of the original Shrine” integrates diffuse elements of Milwfpa is 0 rather unusual sequ- Spanish, with an English version by ence of Buddhistic poems by Richard feeling into a style totally hi own. His John Robert Colombo in collaboration Sommer. The title evidently refers to poems are often 6eatiNdes. with Susana Wald, and a French ver- the name of a Tibetan poet/yogi/bodhi- Changehouse, by Michael Tre sion by .Therese Dulac Gutierrez. The sattva vzho died in the 12th c+nry. I, gehov (Turnstone Press, 37 pages, poems are stylistically reminiscent of for one. am unmoved by the monoton- unpriced). Startling metaphors and a Andre Breton’s. They are filled with a ously meditative cadence of these fluently colloquial enjambment style, terrible, dreamlike strangeness. But 1 Poems. The nirvanic ideal, or the which looks easier than it is, charae- still prefer, in comparison, tbedazzlii vegetal attainment of it, does not.be- Nrize the poetry of Tregebw. His world of Mark Strand and James Tate. long in poetry. Poetry is the hagIna- poems seem to shape the environment Somebody Len theLight on hi the live ex ression of passion, pain, love, he lives in, and he observes things with Basement, by Avron Hoffman (Inter- and d&ion. the eyes of a painter: “The morning media Press, 91 pages, $4.95 paper). dawn/charges through the window/lie And I hope the light stays on because Sommer’s other book, L@ Hand horses of butNr.” And: “. . .water Hoffman’s puckish satire penetrates the Mind, also leaves me cold. The poems lihes, pausing and passing lie blotted nooks and crannies of human nature are printed in the author’s handwriting, inks;/He.avy assNrs. . . .” Thelyricism like a centipede. This is Hoffman’s and this is supposed to be mystical in a is there, but it is often shaded by layers 10th book, and thii is my first intro- left-handed sort of way. Ail I can say is of meaning. duction N his work. It suarkles with that Sommer would be wise simply N The Martyrology: Books 38~4, by humour and insight; it’s like a shot of concentrate on writing poetry. Ambi- hp Nichol (Coach House Preas..un- uenicillin. His “Lunch Hour Poems” dexterity may be good for a juggler, but paged, unpriced). This volume IS a ‘Nrtt the straight world upside down. one hand mashes the other. continuation of Nichol’s epistemo- shaking out the loose change. He now The Light Is on My Shoulder. by logical obsessions; a descriptive cata- dwells in Vancouver, wherehe also fills Ted Planfos (fiddlehead Poetry Books, logue, as it were, of states of con- the stomach of his Muse by working as 36 pages, unpriced). The short impre- sciousness, detailing love, hate, and a short-order wok. How can Van- ssionistic poems of Plantos may not whaNot. The style is somewhat ramhl- couver ever be the same after savouring ahrays mirror the intensely human or iug and prosy, lie the soul’s odyssey. this special of surreal ham and eggs? I seamier aspects of Toronto’s Cabbage- “Perhaps the journey is into darkness/ heartily prescribe this book fcu anyone twvn. but he is an indispensable part of enter the well between your lady’s suffering from ennui of the tongue. this milieu as an organizer of poetry legs. . . .” I agree. Thaw, by Douglas Smith (Four

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Ifmorewakisto bedo”oo”tbisvitd sbxles based on events and happen, all!: that none of the aodysis UlQt IDlIows this BIU of publishing. the tesearch done by Dolores ings in Ihe wesl between 1870 ant statl,tlcal obwvotloo is at al, v&d. Brote” sod CANLIT shotdd “a be allowed to 1900. Paul AudIey drop into oblivion. I hope that by publishing tbll ISBN 0.920284-04-3 57.50 . BxeaxIveDirectcr. lctta Uatetbough it is)you will i”formCawdian Asrociatim of &will Publishers. Tomnto stude~tt of oblishiv of the existence of this PRAIRIEPIRE tepoxto”d o PIO yeam worth ofhistotieal dam. by James A. MacNelll A cclleclion cl MaNeill’s lines1 pcerttr ““z:: with black and white and mtor phctcs $3.95 ERREUR CHEZ US THE YUTTERITE PEOPLE Sii: by. Don C. Ssrneli and I mpll once wqmtulating you on the excellent Lcwy R. Knight, mcotd of Books In Ccmada in always crediting UniverMy cf Saskatchewan . As chtdtntm of the Csmedien PobIiitimr Com- Wanslalom in mims of their wk. Now, Volume I of cur “People cl Our Land mittee of Periodical Distribotoa of Canada. I however. I most withdraw my mngratulatiom. series written for grads IV. V level. most t&o swmg exceptiort to certei” stetemeots fottiie tilncbcing,atl~t.Onpge~oftheJoune ISSN O-220254-02-7 $4.75 in the snide “Yoo?e All Riit. lack.” pob- issueth~lrirareviewo~~~o~d wrks~ lishzd in your May issue. How Levesque won @ierre DUpm) and I&l; STUDIES IN LITERATURE I” dtis attide. Rd Audley. executive dll tivr ue: Ponmir #a Qu#b&-ols (Jean Pmw by Conrad Rcmuld of Ihe Association of Canadian Publishers. is n&r!- in whloh no mention ls mode of tbo A student’s handbook for studying the qootodassoying that tbedsluationr ofdesiiby trandst~~ (Sheila Fir&ma” ad Devid Bllii), various genres in literature. Also cc”. rblesale distribution campatties to promote either at tbe top of the miew or in the toxt. I” kFlsy 0cmpteIe glcssafy of literary Canodim paperbacks oto so much “otap.” I fact, only a vogue tefete”ce to the Rat appear- undetskutd Mr. At&y has written to advise you aecei”B”gIlshoftbeRovmoberbookgives My b&ado” that tbe books in quadon ate ISBN 0B20254-051 $4.75 not orig*bml English works. I do not need to impress upott you how adhm 10 M accepteble level of responsible importaot it is tbol tmnsIatots should ahvm be &Q New. . . joomdism. has on oblllatirm (ill my otba rewgtdzed ad tbst their “entea should rlweys publicotlonon) to pmvido fair ad bdatccd - appear. at tbc very minimum. along with the Block Parent Progfam ago of any contentious sittatkm about which it ~cofthcorigi~auth~rtthcheadofrevinvr chaosa to repon ofthclrwork. Publications Why didn’t your tepottet co”tect a wholesaler 1. WHERE DO WE RUN? reptex.“totlve fat B teaction’to tbe “Rap” by Sheryi Medsen St!ltCitlCnt? Children’s favcr2e animal characters ltheh~,he~~dhavequi~SoundoutUllt such a” ellegetio” ls unjustified (as Mt. Aodky illustrate how the Block Parent home t~ppxcnUy conder). md he would have found Is a place cl safety. Full color. omtbmv~hoIeralenaqoitoptepamd topromote SWEENY AGONISTES ISBN 0-220254-00-0 $3.50 the sale of my Catadiao mawmarket papetbaok 2. BLOCKY NEVER FORGETS books tbm are nwdc available to them for retail sir: distribotlon Tboto an e gnu “umbaof faotoal emxs as well by Angela Kcrber This whole subject of Canedian p etbocke is PI emotional excerse~ in Brian Young’s May Blocky the elephant remembers his bziq argued out with 811 almost campP eta lack’ of miew of my biogmphy. GmrgeXrienoe Cop Block Parent advice and avcids hetool informado”. To begin with, nobody roaIQ r,er. If be we”ts to sad me a stomped self- danger. know how “tany Ce”adll.awhoted paperback addressed envelope. I will a”swet that eII. but ISBN 4920284-01-B $9.50 titles ate made available in Canada each year. ~ucjusttoo~~eoostolct~arrinpublic. hov: “tony are cffemi to wholesale distributort Cadet did ttot. a Youq olatms. weld the 3. TEACHER’S SHOW CARDS lot o”d how mvly aro told. *?m ” of letting Lowt Cetmdiant vote on the teachlng the Block Parent Story. Fut Not is there eve” wmttto” egreemat o” what Co”P edemtlon . txocosals. As a believer in Rp mklr. Set cl 12 cards 89.00 co”stitotero Co”adlmppuback.Docritbtcbtde spomlble Gw~minpnt - that is. governing o book witte” by o Cneadia” aotbor but pub- without the use of refaendom -he felt that t)e 4. CLASSROOM DISPLAY POST- lished by a “o”-Comdii company7 Or P ti votes of the ms’otIQ of Fisnsh “ternbets were a ERS shcwlng Sldck Parent safely lips. outhowd by o notwCa!todia” but poblllhed by a sofficlent test o i popular will. set Of 4 pcstem $5.00 Ca”adio” corn ny? His asration tbot Carder’s “rtkmelirm ‘*ex- teded about es far es Monaal’s ciQ limits” is Note-Tbosopobliodo~ canythefollow Ifyowmlc hadaddIes&’ I”g “otatioa “The words Blcob Parent and iy there fxts!mtber thm p&%ll~~ palpabl absurd, as You will see if he caws to temow%t! note horn the Deallg registry office od the Blook Parent symbol are oettifioatlo” emly d~torted’venion of a” hcmnp ete w.matk ;;o?, of The Canada Safely C+“ncil. Ot. Iv%wut. at I say. a” 0ppanmiQ fm the group look. for example. at cM*r’s brlllivlt dealings b:i”g occured to respond to the allcgotio~. then to bring B.C. buo Confodemtio”. it would hxo saved a more osefd purpose. The whole micw it of tbir low cdlbre. but I The fact remains that Camdlm wholes&n don’t wed to b&boor the point. LX matoh hb vlgomosly promote the sdc of the paperback boa!s tku are made availableto thorn.. All tbatis “crd.4 is for the Caoadiao awhom to mite mote of them. and for cyudian tmblishers to tmbllsh bothsider have&d tcmekergood.‘well-wlite” more of them. carc~it.AllIunplybihotolsllt~hsi~I have received. be they good ot bad. hll is in P , IockSbepbu doss by itself. It does”‘1 oven insult my intelll- Tcmnto w=. WESTERN EXTENSION COLLEGE SQMEEQDY CARED A final wad of edvlce to Mt. Yotmg: if he EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS puslsts In bls own projeot to write e biography of Sk 804 Central Ave.. Saskatoon. Carder, he had betta do somcrhing about his Saskatchewan S7N2G6 - In your May issue. Phil Sotguy rays that 2gwes bistorlcd mind-set. 01 he b going to m” into for McClelbmd & Stewart prperbocks are only somcverytioestmuble. Whettbiscoo”bydoes (306) 373-6399 ovoiloblc atla 1972. A few years ago a Mn-pmlit ML need ts a boring biography of&tier. yeveo

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Thefirst c@nclurlm Is “cld ha1.” SC I won’t receive the same.pmmotional treatment labour it. It involves the Csnadirn condition: For lavished on the house’s previous seller, egtee to he sepnmed hum all of IL space/dme Chulcttetwn in lielwi~‘s thcushlful paragraph. cc-crdinsles within myccntml (including all wad Tcmmc: and then re-think the MIicn of Reyfacing in Sam% by Joyce C~SKU. phmcmenclcgicsl psmmeten) if simultsnecssly “ruccessfulness.” (The film rights’ alone went for a gmmed material pcssessicn of one scdid. I lmve just returned Rem cuter spree - fabulous $8,065.37 and the hopfed. quadruped ofthe equesuisn vsriely. Europa, tie Csnibbem. and South America - CFDGfinanced epic, shot on wide- -Swab Cohen. Tomum hxinp ba? ssnt tbae on I lecturing tour by Cundim !Z%vmd Affairs. In all these drsu. I screen Super-8 in living black-and- 7. Rcxveh has shown lhal as far as cm bs I*:* asked rbcu Gmadian writers &I &e white, now is playing legion halls from detamlned. lhe confinement of a unitary cmi- household names in Taunta Very few people Colbome, Ont., to Zebsllos. B.C.) lhic mmifcrtnticn witbin tbe pamm&n cf the hxc ever heard of Hugh MacLennan. MYgnrn Address: CanWit No. 25, Books in terminal part of the vertebmo fcrslimb. in nhu Laurence. Bob Krccuch, Joyce Marshall. Mar- words that awendwe which could be sdti tc ion Engel - m memicn Canadii writers I Canada, 366 Adelaide Street East, distinf,uish &&o s&m hwn ahe, species. Qxdndarly admix and lii to talk about. Wkat Toronto M5A 1N4. The deadline is hss a lcndency tc equsle fwcurably. if net mcm. -IUCCC~~~* axe \x wJklng abat? I do MI want tc Sept. 3 I. tilh s dysdic msnifesladcn of Ule abov& Qa,s the sore point of regional dllpariq. but I mentIoned clsssificsdcn within a mndcm ma& wuld like writers as semilive. serious and RESULTS OF CANWIT NO. 23 festalion of mere 01 less arbcmai tendencies. inalligenr w David Helwig m think twice befcre - Katblem HsmiRcn; Onaws *eya~lTcmnlOor~~crrUlscQ~mroT w~W~N THE via\?le parameters of the lmlwrnl success. I expect Amerkans 10 Ihlnk polysyllabic exercise. them wes &I 8. It is s mstm cf nc little dissppcintinent Ihat cthnocenuicallv. I sincerelv hope we in Canada abundance of superlative bunaocra- the speaker ti not in a pcsiticn 10 m&s availsblc tese. Jargon-wise, we would have to say that the out-front contender is Grant BudtIer of Wolfville, N.S. Be will be MacEach~m. sc that wke& or & a book L the recipknt, the post Office willing, of published in Ckulcrtetcvm is not really impcr- nnc we have rwiwml disbibuticn. what is hvci sawbucks and a five-mot for the slighdy ~lcimpc~tillhef~8cLlhrtwevcnDw following artful circumiocutions. concluding ageemcnts with two large hcuses in (N.B,, theanswers tothesesldll-testing Eumpe which involve Brkish and African righu quu~~ ere pnnted et the end of thu in Prim. In clher curds. whether Helwig is COIT.YI abou Abe “succerrfulness” cf books ublirhed cut of Chadcneurwvn is doubly debuta- , g le Peacnrlly. I hope about Canadlln bwks 1. Wltb reference m the pmpcsidcn cf impart- published cut of any region or city of dds very ing by any alucalicnnl process whacwwer, tc rraiie and remarkableccunhy thal he ir wmng: any specimen of the speuea mnir dmesdau of that whaava we produce will have dw widest advanced chmnclcgial standing. any abiliy in naiaml and inlemadonal inas and auenticc. sn activity I which said Individual (specimen of cants domesdcus) did net pmvlously exhibit a noticeable degree of pm6ciency. the prcbabllity cf such an cpaticn wing feasible Is by tke mast cptimlsuc utimaus approximately zerc. 2. The segment or divisicn of the physi YC supericr in altitude to all ncccmpanyig % 0 menu cfsaid ph sique and cnccmpsssing within ils psmmelers x cerebrum. cerebellum, and medulk cblcngats. and addiliclwlly the sudi- tray. olfsctmy, ad visual m~sns. csn be ccnSdently identified. Sensmlly snd speck% tally. as be@ mere biihly mhnnugecss when extant in duplieple.

Honurable mentions: YEARBOOK OFTHE “NffED NATIONS ,974 2S1h Edlllcn 3. One inccnmnratible asPa of tbore in hiih- ranking positions cf mver we&h 01 influence ls that re&less cPtkeii ‘.mevkablc dcsiws 10 ropis wcr.-sofd.,,dhmv,,,;elrcb ,,i indulge in imm&mle or selfish bekavicur, it is incumbwr upon them to so crder their rdvides as Lo &vale tbemselva above potemial crki- cism. and by example, reinfcne the universsli~ cfopinicn Ihst their stmlifled stands is because of lhek implicit aup&xi~. In the final analysis. Iherrfcrs. escslsting inlluencc implii aulating Order No. E.7S.I.l Clclhbcvnd s95.00 responsibilities. -Kevin O’Cshsn. Dundas. On!.

THAT MURMUR of innumerable keys you lieep hearing is thesound of 10,000 lusty typewriters across the country busily pecldw toward the $50,000 prize being offered by McClelland & 5. The principal sccic.cecncmlc f~mwth cemre cfthe second-ImguJge minorky may be chsrao Stewart for n first Canadian novel. taized by sssccisting its MmenclsQne wilh m Unforhmctely. McClerkan & New- invccsdcn tc as alkged supreme belng. ulilizing spider is not as flush es its old rival. But aclamamry pbmseclcgy yld tbe vcu~ive csss. M&N will advance $25 for the best -Bill Dwies. Vlnccuver title and plot outline (maximum: 75 6. NcMbsbmdlng my previous m&muls 10 words) for a last Canadian novel, and tbe ccnawy. md bzicusly mkiig inm ccnsidsn- promises that the winning entry will tics the pre‘xrlcus imQl*alcms of tile cumnt

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