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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