the researcher using this volume time and frustration.

With these decisions there are, of course, some qualified sacrifices. This is not a descriptive bibliography, though a location for each title is given. The work is spiral bound and processed without typesetting, but it opens nicely and is quite legible. One does wonder how effectively such a low-key publication can be distributed. Ironically, Ms. Krotki's work may suffer the same plight as more expensive limited editions in remaining inaccessible to the researchers who require it. It is a pity if this should be the case because *Local Histories of Alberta* fills inevitable gaps in Peel and Strathern. It deserves to be well used by genealogists, local historians, regional and urban geographers, sociologists, historians of religion, and those simply interested in the broad field of western Canadian history.

REVIEW EDITOR

*Etienne Gilson: A Bibliography / Une Bibliographie.* [By] Margaret McGrath.
The Etienne Gilson Series, 3. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies, 1982. xxviii, 124 p., paper, $9.50 ISBN 0-88844-703-5

Although he was known primarily as a medieval scholar and neo-Thomist philosopher, Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) exerted an important influence on the cultural life of France and the English-speaking world. In association with St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, Gilson cooperated with members of the Congregation of Priests of St. Basil to found the Institute of Mediaeval Studies in 1929, dividing his time thereafter between teaching at the Sorbonne in Paris and acting as the Institute's director. To my knowledge, McGrath's bilingual bibliography of Gilson is the first work published under the auspices of the Bibliography of Philosophy in Canada Project. In recognition of Gilson's prominence, the Project investigators decided that it was worthwhile to devote a separate monograph to his publications. Not only has this proven so in terms of Gilson scholarship, but McGrath's bibliography has set a high standard of excellence for future bibliographies that the Project might decide to sponsor.

Comprising 1210 numbered entries (2106 individual items), McGrath's bibliography is a compilation of Gilson's publications as well as relevant secondary literature. Gilson publications are divided into eight sections: monographs, works edited, series edited, anthologies, scholarly articles, prefaces, articles of general interest, and book reviews. Works about Gilson are divided into five sections: monographs, theses, scholarly articles, general articles, and memorials and obituaries. There is another section, titled 'non-printed materials,' that lists disc recordings, audio tapes, video tapes, and unpublished typescripts. Arrangement in all sections is alphabetical. In addition to these sections, a list of abbreviations, a selected name index, and a subject index have been provided.

To a great extent, McGrath's excellent bibliography is derivative of James Edie's chronological checklist of 684 items contained in *Mélanges offerts à Etienne Gilson* (1959). The Gilson collection at the Pontifical Institute houses copies of the items Edie recorded but also has works not cited by him, many of which were published subsequently. In superseding Edie's checklist, McGrath and her colleagues have dili-gently searched other library collections. They have extensively examined reference
tools in philosophy and religion, indexes for book reviews and theses, and other less specialized sources. Cooperation was also obtained from librarians, researchers, and acquaintances and friends of Gilson.

A small complaint that I have with McGrath's bibliography is that the description of items is often quite abbreviated and compressed, particularly for reviews of Gilson's books. A reviewer's personal name, for example, is omitted altogether and not even the first initial is given. I am aware that the rationale for this sort of truncated style has chiefly to do with keeping publication costs of the bibliography as low as possible. The resultant inconvenience to the user of the bibliography should, however, be considered.

Besides his significant contributions to theology and philosophy, Gilson made excursions into politics, journalism, literature, and music. The variety and quantity of items recorded by McGrath reflect the depth of Gilson's character and diverse interests, his prolific output, and continuing influence.

CARL SPADONI

*(Carl Spadoni is Assistant Archivist of the Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University.)*

*Bibliography of Works on John Stuart Mill.* [Compiled by] Michael Laine. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1982. x, 173 p., cloth, $35.00 ISBN 0-8020-2414-9

John Stuart Mill, the foremost exponent of liberalism of the nineteenth century, had an enormous impact on his contemporaries and succeeding generations. An indication of his widespread and continuing influence is the amount of commentary that has been published on his life and work. The first modern checklist on Mill, which was done by Keitaro Amano in 1964, contained not only secondary literature but also recorded Mill's own publications and their translations. From 1965 to 1970 an alphabetical checklist compiled by Dudley L. Hascall and John M. Robson appeared serially in the *Mill News Letter*. Readers of the news letter are apprised of new work on Mill through a regular column, 'Recent Publications.'

Associate Professor of English at Victoria College in the University of Toronto and one of the editors of the *Mill News Letter* from 1971 to the present, Michael Laine has amalgamated, revised, and updated these previous compilations. His enumerative bibliography of secondary literature consists of the following sections: an alphabetical checklist of nearly two thousand articles and books dealing with Mill in a substantial way to the end of 1978; three appendices – one of light or satiric verse in which Mill is mentioned, one of cartoons, and one of portraits and other forms of representation; a subject index; and an index of important persons cited. Each entry of the checklist is numbered sequentially, annotated when the title is not self-explanatory, and sometimes cross-referenced when the same point or issue is discussed.

Since Mill's work and career are frequently referred to and summarized in textbooks of economics, political science, and philosophy, Laine has excluded such publications from his checklist because they usually repeat the same information, an exception being made only if the author in question is sufficiently prominent. Theses