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Canadian Occasions. Addresses by Lord Tweedsmuir. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) THIS collection of Lord Tweedsmuir's speeches in Canada is an impressive display of the wide interests and sympathies of a man who was at one and the same time a statesman, a novelist and an historian. Speeches on engineering, law, mining and medicine, speeches on literature, on philosophy, on Canada and United States' affairs, on education, philosophy and youth—they all have the touch you find even in Hannay, of the adventure stories the eye of a hunter, the knowledgeableness of a Scotsman, and the careful balanced prose of a D.C.L. Oxford, and LL.D. St. Andrews.