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558 ReviewsUkrainian Women in Canada, 1921-1971," concluded that the three constraintsfacing Ukrainian women were low social status at immigration, nonchartergroup ethnicity, and sex discrimination.Part 4, "Political Participation," contains only two papers. Roman R.March analyzed data on the political mobility of Ukrainians in Canada, butfailed to compare it to that of other ethnic groups. Ivan Myhul and MichaelIsaacs's discussion "Postwar Social Trends Among Ukrainians in Quebec" wasincluded here inexplicably; moreover, its comparisons present a distortedpicture, inasmuch as Ukrainians in Quebec are predominantly urban Montrealers,and should be compared to other urbanités of Quebec.In the banquet address, Charles Keely of the Population Council, NewYork, noted the pitfalls in examining trends unrelated to processes andcautioned against the use of "Ukrainian Canadians" as a blanket term for allUkrainians in Canada.The first volume, focusing on the key Canadian political conflict, demonstratesboth that it is crucial to Ukrainian Canadians, and that they caninfluence its resolution. The second volume provides a preliminary quantitativeassessment of social trends among Ukrainian Canadians, but points outthe need for careful studies of the processes involved.Ihor StebelskyUniversity of WindsorCANADIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSOF SLAVISTS (ZAGREB-LJUBLJANA 1978): TRADITION AND INNOVA-TION IN SLAVIC LITERATURES, LINGUISTICS AND STYLISTICS. Editedby Z. Folejewski and E. Heier, G. Luckyj, G. Schaarschmidt.Ottawa: Canadian Association of Slavists, 1978. 194 pp.According to the editor's preface, "The organizing principle in this volume hasbeen the theme of tradition and innovation in language and literature and inscholarly approaches to language and literature." While the organizationprinciple is sound, the results can only be called mixed, with the better paperscalling to mind Romeo's first impression of Juliet: "So shows a snowy dovetrooping with crows."The collection does contain some excellent papers. Richard W. F. Pope's"On the Comparative Literary Analysis of the Patericon Story (Translated andOriginal) in the Pre-Mongol Period" compares two similar stories and drawson work by Leskov and Tołstoj, in addition to Pope's own extensive work inthe field. Constantine Bida's "Vestiges of Antiquity in Ukrainian BaroqueLiterature" recycles a good deal of his earlier work on "Galatovskyj" (his