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W. C. Desmond Pacey Fonds - Series 3.3


Series 3.3 (Case 25)

Publications - Reviews written by Desmond Pacey. -- [n.d.], 1936-1937, [194?],1954, 1956, 1960-1961, 1967-1970, [197?], 1974. -- 12.5 cm (1 Case).

Series 3.3 comprises typescripts, manuscripts, photocopies of journal articles, letters, and newspaper clippings of book, film, and play reviews written by Desmond Pacey between the late nineteen thirties and the mid-nineteen seventies. File 26, containing newspaper clippings of Pacey reviews, is filed at the end of Case 25; all other files are arranged alphabetically by title of the work being reviewed.

File titles are based on file contents.


File Listings for Series 3.3 

Case 25   Reviews by Desmond Pacey

File 1    "Southern Accent" (The World of Books). Rev. of William
          Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom. -- 1936. -- Photocopy
          of review from Acta Victoriana XLI Nov. 1936 pp. 23-25.

File 2    Rev. of Robin S. Harris and Arthur Tremblay, A
          Bibliography of Higher Education in Canada. -- 1960. --
          Tps. 2 p. (includes 1960 letter to Prof. Alec Lucas,
          Dept. English, McGill University).

File 3    A Master Craftsman" (The World of Books). Rev. of John
          Dos Passos' The Big Money."  Photocopy of review from
          Acta Victoriana XLI Oct. 1936, pp. 24-26.

File 4    Rev. of Georg Friden's The Canadian Novels of Sir Gilbert
          Parker: Historical Elements and Literary Techniques. --
          1954. -- Tps. 2p.

File 5    Rev. of Green-Sylvester Anthology A Century of Canadian
          Literature. -- [196?]. -- MSS. 14 p.

File 6    Rev. of Frederick Philip Grove's Consider Her Ways. --
          [194?]. -- MSS. 3 p.

File 7    Film review of Crime and Punishment. -- 1936. --
          Photocopy of review from Acta Victoriana XL Feb. 1936. p.
          36.

File 8    Rev. of The Evolution of Canadian Literature in English,
          edited Mary Jane Edwards et. al. -- [197?]. --  Draft
          MSS. 6 p.

File 9    Rev. of Douglas O' Spettigue, Frederick Philip Grove: The
          European Years. -- [197?]. -- MSS. 5 p.

File 10   Rev. of the Guiness Book of Poetry. -- [1961]. -- Tps. 2
          p.

File 11   Rev. of Glenn Hjalmarson's Just Call Us Bandits. --
          [1961?]. -- Tps. 2 p.

File 12   Rev. of Maclean's Canada. -- [1960?]. -- Tps. 1 p. (2
          copies)

File 13   Rev. of The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada; Painting;
          An Idiot Joy, and An Approach to Patterson. -- 1968. --
          MSS. 10 p. - a review article for Wascana Review.

File 14   Critical views on Canadian Writers: the McGill Movement.
          -- [1969?]. -- MSS. 4 p.

File 15   Rev. of Memoirs of Montparnasse and From a Seaside Town.
          -- 1970. -- MSS. 6 p. - a review for Mysterious East Nov.
          1970.

File 16   "The World of Books," Rev. of Ricardo Quintana's The Mind
          and Art of Jonathan Swift. -- 1937.  Acta Victoriana XLI
          Jan. 1937 p. 27-30.

File 17   Rev. of New Brunswick by Michael Collie. -- 1974. -- from
          University of Toronto Quarterly Jan. 1974. -- MSS. 2 p.

File 18   Rev. of Ernest Buckler's Ox Bells and Fireflies. -- 1968.
          -- MSS. 7 p. - review for Canadian Literature.

File 19   Rev. of Peter Miller's A Shiftying Pattern, Alden
          Nowlan's The Things Which Are, and A.J.M. Smith's
          Collected Poems. -- [n.d.]. -- MSS. 5 p.

File 20   Rev. of Shapes and Sounds, Poems of W.W.E. Ross and The
          Collected Poems of Anne Wilkinson. -- 1968. -- MSS. of a
          rev. for Fiddlehead July 24, 1968. -- MSS. 12 p.

File 21   Rev. of The Strength of the University (Claude T.
          Bissell). -- [1969?]. -- Bulletin of the Canadian
          Humanities Association [1969?] pp. 86-87.

File 22   Review of Marie-Claire Blais' Tete-Blanche. -- 1961. --
          Tps. 1 p.

File 23   Rev. of The Unquiet Bed, by Dorothy Livesay. -- 1967. --
          MSS. 5 p. of a review for Canadian Forum.

File 24   Rev. of play Whiteoaks. -- 1938. -- Photocopy of article
          in Acta Victoriana LXII April 1938, p. 34.

File 25   Rev. of Charles Edward Eaton et al, Write me From Rio. --
          [196?]. -- Tps. 1p. (2 copies).

File 26   Reviews in newspapers, by Pacey. -- [n.d.], 1956, 1961.



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