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Professor Sedgewick examines closely the notion of irony in drama, and skillfully analyses that delight in contrast of appearance and reality, in the combination of superior knowledge and detached sympathy, which the spectator finds in contemplating the performance of the whole or individual parts of a play.

The story of the French shore problems is not merely concerned with international treaties which both Britain and France interpreted to their advantage, but is also much of the story of Newfoundland's emergence from Imperial proscription.

As a working key and manual to the lichen genus Cladonia on the American continent north of Mexico, this study will be a valuable aid to professional lichenologists, botanists, mycologists, plant ecologists, plant ecologists and naturalists.

This is a study of the characteristics of the English as revealed their literature throughout the centuries, showing, among other traits, their patriotism and their concern with public affairs and every abiding human interest, which have persisted from the Elizabethans through Milton, Keats, and Wordsworth.

Unique in Canada until 1970, the program has proved so effective that it is now being emulated in two other provinces -- Manitoba and Quebec. This history of the conservation authorities in Ontario demonstrates the reasons for the success of the movement.

The large-scale development of resources that has been taking place in the Canadian Northwest since World War II has attracted much public interest. The Royal Society of Canada, at its 1958 meeting, devoted attention to the Northwest, and the present volume includes seven papers which were presented in the meetings.

Since the Second World War the use of electronics has become essential in many forms of surveying. Equipment grows more and more sophisticated. This is the first book which explains the workings of such equipment already and easily to the average user.

The IXth International Congress of Paediatrics selected Kernicterus as one of the major topics for discussion in recognition of the significant advances made in medical knowledge of this problem during the past decades.

This book closes an obvious gap in nineteenth-century historiography by carefully analysing British policy and public opinion with regard to the Schleswig-Holstein problem from 1848 to 1864.

Here is a collection of timely reports which review and assess the state of development of several branches of geochemistry. They serve as well to indicate the contemporary scope, technique, and philosophy of this field of scientific inquiry.

This invaluable handbook provides a basic knowledge of muscle action and co-ordination with which students of occupational therapy can applying specific techniques to specific conditions of muscle insufficiency for the restoration of function.

The expedition of Naval Lieutenant Lavrentiy Alekseyevich Zagoskin constitutes one of the most remarkable pages in the history of Russian exploration during the first half of the nineteenth.This translation makes available an outstanding source in the history of early scientific investigations in the North.

This essay is an attempt to describe the Canadian system of state interference since its general inception a decade ago, against a background of lesser interference affecting a section of the economy over the forty preceding years.

As R.J. Schoeck explained in his introduction to the first volume in this series, a group at the University of Toronto began in 1965 to plan annual conferences on editorial problems. Our first conference (October 1965), dealing with the sixteenth century, was followed by a second in November 1966, out of which the present volume has grown.

This book on concrete is a compilation of scientific and technical papers presented at a symposium held in honour of a Canadian scientist of international stature, the late Thorbergur Thorvaldson.

Stuart's analysis of Jefferson's thinking on matters military shows a sensitive awareness of the tensions in western thought which arose in the transition from the ideas of the Enlightenment to those of the modern era.

The Division of Zoology of the Royal Ontario Museum collected various species of animals throughout the Province of Ontario, with particular emphasis on the local fauna of the Toronto region. Naturalistsmade careful collections of animals and recorded accurate observations on the species with which they were familiar.

THIS book is intended for the beginning student in Germanic Philology and, in particular, for students of Old English.

This book began as a study of the nature and accounting treatment of intangible assets. It was soon apparent, however, that the problems raised by intangibles were fundamental to the entire structure of accounting theory and the scope of the work broadened to attempt to create a whole new framework of accounting theory.

The threat of utter tragedy does not arise directly out of man's greater mastery over nature, it comes, as Sir James Jeans has so pointedly stated, from the absence of man's moral control over himself. That control can be accomplished only through, and by, education.

Professor Scott discusses the relationship between civil liberties and the Canadian constitution in the light of the steps now being taken to write a Bill of Rights into the law. But he takes a much wider point of view than that suggested by present political alternatives.

This work presents a new approach to the problem of the constitution of the Witenagemot. It was undertaken because no detailed and exhaustive study of the Witenagemot at a given moment of the Anglo-Saxon period exists.

In a detailed analysis of the political forces then at work, Dr. Shoufani shows the tremendous influence of the Meccan aristocracy on the policies of Muhammad in his last two years, on his adoption of the northern strategy aimed at invading Syria, and later, on the election of Abu Bakr.

Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden have, to varying degrees, earned a reputation for being more responsive to Third World needs and aspirations than other developed industrial societies. In this volume a number of senior scholars offer interpretive essays on the North/South policies of these four middle powers.

This collection of previously unpublished essays written by leading scholars in the field of American literature was commissioned by the Department of English at Carleton University to celebrate the establishment of the programmie in American literature.

These papers are not final assessments; they are individual and independent contributions to Mill studies that clearly show the vitality of both Mill's thought and the certainty that it will continue to influence and change the ways in which we think about the human condition.

Dr. Murray G. Ross, President of York University, has provided in this book a stimulating analysis of the present expansion in university education in Canada, and has outlined against this background the response which York University in particular is attempting to make to the challenge presented to it.

The present volume was prepared and was hoped that it will prove of value not only to research workers but also to those whose primary responsibilities in the alcoholism field are in the realm of treatment, education, or the administration of programs with these functions.

The purpose of this material is to emphasize the main avenues of occupational therapy, and to keep clear the relationship between them and their expanding periphery. It has been by design that a number of references and quotations are included.

This volume describes the origins, major parties concerned with, political complications in the Americas and Europe of, and negotiations that led to the resolution of the San Juan Water Boundary dispute.