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Book Notes is repeating one of the many apocryphal tales one hears in Duck Lake and St. Laurent to this day about the now mythic figures of 1885. Finally, Barnholder makes the astonishing conjecture that the memoir was spoken in Michif, a strange macaronic dialect of Crée and French combined. But Michif, in my view, was a late development, which emerged during the second Métis diaspora after the disaster of 1885, when they filtered out to the far verges of civilization. Gabriel spoke highly serviceable, if idiomatic, French to his audiences of French Canadians in the United States and Quebec. I have heard no suggestion at all that he spoke Michif, though I do know that he spoke Sarcee as his first native tongue (from his grandmother), and then Crée, Blackfoot, Sioux, Saulteux (Ojibway) and Assiniboine (Stoney). It seems to me an unnecessary assumption that Gabriel told his tale in a clumsy jargon when he knew French well enough to talk on a level with the priests and with Louis Riel and to address a variety of French-speaking audiences. G.W. Christine Hantel-Fraser. No Fixed Address: Life in the Foreign Service, n.p. $24.95 paper. Like the Foreign Legion, the Foreign Service has acquired what may be a false glamour, as Christine Hantel-Fraser suggests in her highly interesting book. Hantel-Fraser, a long-time embassy wife, with experience of her husband's many postings, has gathered memories and impressions from many foreign service personnel and their families, rather in the old Mass Observation way, to present a composite picture of what life is really like in Canada's embassies and high commissions and on home postings in Ottawa. There is even a comparison at the end of the book with the practices of other foreign missions. The interest in the unfamiliar, the pleasure of alien environments, the stimulus of living among foreign people, all are indeed there, but not for everybody and certainly not all the time. The tales of loneliness, of inadaptability, of shattering overwork, of sickness (particularly in the ranks below the diplomats themselves), are so many and so extraordinary that one wonders why people try so hard to enter the foreign service or to stay in it. Hantel- Fraser helps to sort out the mixture of motives and loyalties involved, and on the whole she does so with objectivity; only when she is talking about personal family experiences does she tend to gush. Still, it is a book one would recommend to anyone thinking of trying to enter the Foreign Service. If it doesn't deter them, it will at least forewarn them. For no foreign servant, however high his or her status, entirely escapes the negative side of this way of life he chooses, G.W. Howard O'Hagan. Trees Are Lonely Company. Talonbooks. For aficionados of the fine western Canadian writer Howard O'Hagan, the new book, Trees Are Lonely Company, will be welcome even if it does sail under somewhat false colours. It purports to be "A collection of... short stories," but in fact it is a combination of two earlier volumes, The Woman Who Got on at Jasper Station, which does consist of real stories, and Wilderness Men, a group of biographical essays on historical figures of the Old West, mainly outlaws and loners like Almighty Voice, Simon Gun-an Noot, and Albert Johnson, "the Mad Trapper of Rat River." O'Hagan's sketches of these men are vivid to the edge of being mythical, but short stories they are not. G.W. 168
Books Received Anthologies Carolan, Trevor, ed. The Colors of Heaven: Short Stories from the Pacific Rim. Vintage, $11.00. Dutt, Krishna & Andrew Robinson, eds. Noon in Calcutta: Short Stories from Bengal. Bloomsbury, $24.99. Friday Circle. Chasing Sundogs: A University of Ottawa Anthology. Friday Circle/U Ottawa, $2.50. Gooch, Bryan N.S. & Maureen Niwa. The Emergence of the Muse: Major Canadian Poets from Crawford to Pratt. Oxford, $19.95. Stone, Ted. Riding the Northern Range. Raincoast, $12.95. The Arts Boime, Albert. The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento: Representing Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy. U Chicago P, US$55.00. Clement, Claude. The Voice of the Wood, Paintings by Frédéric Clément. Puffin Pied Piper, n.p. Collinson, Howard Creel. Documenting Design: Works on Paper in the European Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. U Toronto P, $65.00/35.00. Ellenzweig, Allen. The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe. Columbia UP, $44.95. Teitelbaum, Matthew, ed. Montage and Modern Life: 1919-1942. MIT, $24.95. Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slaver. U North Carolina P, n.p. Children's Literature Alma, Ann. Skateway to Freedom. Orca, $6.95. Berton, Pierre. Dr. Kane of the Arctic Seas. M & S, $5-99- Borlenchi, Patricia. From Albatross to Zoo: An Alphabet Book in Five Languages, pictures by Piers Harper. Scholastic, $14.95. Brouillet, Chrystine. Mystères de Chine. La courte échelle, n.p. Brouillet, Chrystine. Un rendez-vous troublant. La courte échelle, n.p. Coué, Jean. Les 80 Palmiers d'Abbar Ben Badis. Hurtubise, n.p. Dalton, Anne. This is the Way. Scholastic, $14.95. Décary, Marie. L'incroyable Destinée. La courte échelle, n.p. Dorros, Arthur. This is My House. Scholastic, $14.95. Drozd, Irina. Meurtre en Miroir. Hurtubise, n.p. Dufeutrel, Marie. Le Monde au Bout des Doigts. Hurtubise, n.p. Ehrlich, Amy. Pome & Peel, illus. Lâszlô Gâl. Penguin, $5.99. Evans, Dilys, comp. Monster Soup and other Spooky Poems, illus. J. Rogers. Scholastic, $14.95. Frolick, Gloria Kupchenko. Anna Veryha. Maxwell Macmillan, n.p. Gauthier, Bertrand. Les Griffes de la Pleine Lune. La courte échelle, n.p. Grace, Eric S. Elephants: Natural History Series. Key Porter, $18.95. Idrac, Janine. Espaces dans le Temps. Hurtubise, n.p. Johnson, Gillian. Sahara Sara. Annick, $12.95. Lavigne, Guy. L'obsession de Jérôme Delisle. La courte échelle, n.p. Lohans, Alison. Laws of Emotion. Thistledown , n.p. Mathieu, Pierre. D'Est en Ouest: légendes et contes canadiens, illus. M. Leblanc. Edns des Plaines, $8.95. Mayer, Jeni. Suspicion Island. Thistledown, n.p. Makhele, Caya. Le Vieil Homme et le Petit Garnement. Hurtubise, n.p. Modesitt, Jeanne. Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse: A Book About Feelings, illus. Robin Spowart. Scholastic, $14.95. Morantz, Elizabeth. Taking Care of Alabama. Maxwell Macmillan, $14.95/9.95. O'Donnell, Peter. Dizzy. Scholastic, $14.95. Pol, Anne-Marie. Le Galop du Templier. Hurtubise, n.p. Relouzat, Raymond. Sonson et le volcan. Hurtubise, n.p. Robbins, Ken. Make Me a Peanut Butter Sandwich and a Glass of Milk. Scholastic, $14.95. 169
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