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Dealing in part with the people involved in the Red River Rebellion of 1869-70, the novel is based on Begg's own experiences in the Red River Settlement and describes the realities of pioneer life. 'Dot It Down' was the nickname of Charles Mair, poet and member of the Canada First Movement.

Professor Bekker's study takes a fresh approach the Nibelungenlied, tracing the new designs which the poet brings to the Nibelungen tradition and provides detailed examinations of the main aspects of technique and structure in the epic.

An annotated bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies for the years 1981-83, offering a quick guide to recent work.

This monograph focuses on the final third of Nicholas Karamzin's life, on his career at court (1816-26) and on the cultural heritage he left to the Russian Empire.

As a tribute to the superb teaching and exemplary literary criticism of this eminent Yale scholar, the majority of these essays deal with thematic, textual, and prosodic issues in Old English poetry.

Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of vital importance to the growth of England as a European power. In this work Miss Burwash offers a complete history of the English merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance period.

This light romance portrays in considerable detail the social life of Ottawa in the post-Confederation years. The gossip of the capital and the prevailing social customs strengthen the story of Honor Edgeworth's courtship. It is a novel of manners with a happy ending.

A representative selection of the best poetry of Spain's Golden Age.

In this study energy-exchange processes and climatic influences are examined in relation to thermal comfort and work efficiency as exemplified in a schoolroom situation.

An excellent general reference on urbanization in Canada.

The story of Gompers in Canada has never been properly treated: this book is a significant addition to Canadian and American labour history and to the study of American expansion.

This book provides essential background to anyone concerned with the path Canadian literature followed to modern times.

This is a brief but absorbing study by one of the world's great experts on the Holocaust, who has drawn on a huge body of material to depict one of the unforgettable events in recent history from an arresting and unfamiliar point of view.

This volume, based on an interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and social scientists, explores a topic of vital importance today-moral education.

The story of Charles G.D. Roberts' personal life, recounted here fully and objectively for the first time, adds a vivid portrait to the gallery of Canada's literary pioneers.

This book was written in honour of the late R. MacGregor Dawson, whose influence on political thought in Canada is still with us today. The majority of the contributors to this volume were Dawson's students and all provide articles of interest and importance for a most useful volume on the political process in Canada.

This is a study of Hamlet as literary myth, a figurative mode of art in which structure is basic; yet primal myth, myth in the larger, non-literary sense, becomes part of it too, because the substance of Hamlet seems to be of this kind.

This book has the general quality of highlighting through the eyes of an independent observer the important problems of Canadian attitudes to foreign policy.

This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses.

Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift are among the best prose satirists in a remarkably rich literary era. Focusing on these key figures, 'Betwixt Jest and Earnest' examines the theory and practice of religious prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

In this study, Professor Asals analyses George Herbert's use of language as a method of devotion in his major cycle poem, The Temple.

This is a sensitive study of Wells' imaginative development during his formative years.

To Canadians of this century the name of Henry Alline is almost unknown. This biography introduces him to the general reader. Through the story of his life it also recreates the early settlement of the Maritime provinces, and examines the origins of one of the most dominant and continuing themes in Canadian life, evangelical pietism.

This volume contains the papers and commentaries presented at the fourth philosophy colloquium at the University of Western Ontario in November 1968. The papers examine, from different points of view, the central problems in the philosophy of action.

This collection of essays covers the range of modern thinking on public finance from theoretical concepts such as public goods to eminently practical fiscal issues like value added tax.

Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971.

For three hundred years the Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been forwarding to governments recommendations on foreign policy. In this study, Dr. Byrd brings together and states carefully and accurately those beliefs, principles, attitudes, and practices which have been fundamental to the Quaker approach.

Newly revised by the author (1956), this text-book for beginning students is also designed for general readers who want to know what economics is and how economists think.

What does it mean to be 'mentally retarded'? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two experts, 'Ed Murphy' and 'Pattie Burt,' for answers. Ed and Pattie, former inmates of institutions for the retarded, tell us in their own words.

A collection of Sir Robert Borden's letters that reveal some of his inner thoughts and strongest beliefs, giving an insight into the man and his times.