Volume 20, Number 8 · May 17, 1973
Good Manners
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Forum: Canadian Life and Letters, 1920-1970
edited by J.L. Granatstein, edited by Peter Stevens
University of Toronto, 431 pp., $7.50
Until I moved to Canada three years ago I had never heard of The Canadian Forum; nor had it occurred to me to be curious about Canadian politics and culture. I did not know that in 1920 a group of University of Toronto faculty and undergraduates founded the Forum, a monthly journal that, after half a century, flourishes and still occupies a unique place in Canadian letters. There is no American journal quite like it. The Nation and The New Republic come closest; but the Forum publishes fiction and engravings as well as social commentary and poetry, and its tone is different. It retains something of the style of the elegant amateur—justifiably, since it pays neither its contributors nor its editorial board. Its editors today are, as they have usually been in the past, university professors; and it draws more of its contributions from academic sources than an American counterpart would, as might be expected in a society in which prominent people still know one another personally and share a common cultural standard.
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