CANADIAN WRITERS AND THEIR WORKS, FICTION SERIES, VOL. V Edited by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley Toronto, ECW Press, 1990. 257pp, cloth, $45.00 ISBN 1-55022-027-6. CIP Grades 12 and up/Ages 17 and up Reviewed by Alan Thomas. Volume 19 Number 3 1991 May Studies of four significant writers in this century - Ernest Buckler, Morley Callaghan, Hugh MacLennan and Thomas J. Raddall - appear in this volume of the excellent series of the critical surveys of Canadian writing, CWTW. As George Woodcock notes, the four belong to a generation that came into its majority after the Great War. All were writing and being published in the decades of the Depression and World War II and two of them, Callaghan and MacLennan, were to establish them­selves as the dominant figures of Canadian writing until the end of the 1950s. They comprise a generation crucially important, therefore, in the history of modern literature in this country, and teachers will be grateful this volume has at last arrived to complete the set of ten volumes devoted by the editors to fiction. In presenting the writers' achieve­ments, the series follows a uniform pattern - with sections on biography, tradition and milieu, and general critical overview before the scholars are allowed to get down to close study of particular works. Such a method emphasizes the career and place of these writers in the literary and cultural history of the country. Useful selected bibliographies are appended. Alan Thomas, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.