HARVEST OF STONES: THE GERMAN SETTLEMENT IN RENFREW COUNTY. Lee-Whiting, Brenda. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, c1985. 323pp, paper, ISBN 0-8020-2562-2 (cloth) $24.95, 0-8020-6580-5 (paper) $9.95. CIP Grades 7 and up Reviewed by Jack Brown Volume 14 Number 1 1986 January Generations of German farmers have struggled with the soil of Renfrew County in Ontario, complaining of an annual harvest of stones. But with persevering spirit, they have built houses, barns, schools, and churches, documented for the first time in this book. The author has been studying the German settlement of the Upper Ottawa Valley for more than twenty years, interviewing descendants of many of the early settlers, exploring attics and barns, scouring auction sales, visiting cemeteries, and reading original documents in order to present a vivid picture of the ethnic community. She describes furniture styles, tools, clothes, blankets, and toys, and includes biographies of several furniture makers. The 224 photographs add a wealth of detail and bring to life the cultural history of the area. An alphabetical listing of more than one thousand German surnames from gravestones in sixty-five local cemeteries, as well as extensive notes and a good index, make the book vitally useful to historians and genealogists. It will continue to be a valuable reference source as old log buildings are pulled down and contents disappear. Brenda Lee-Whiting is already well known for her articles in Canadian Geographic and the Eganville Leader. This book shows her to be a social historian of painstaking thoroughness. Jack Brown, Kingston C. V.I., Kingston Ont.