Stumbled upon in the Stacks .... Snap! Canadian literary insults

The other day I was reading Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada 1910 Vol 15.  I feel deeply for poor Frederick Neal, the author of The Township of Sandwich Past and Present c. 1909, who is severely put in his place by the editors:

Unfortunately Mr Neal's account of the Township of Sandwich is not an example of what a good local history should be.  Like the earth before creation, it is without form and void.  It has no pretensions to literary merit; so far as arrangement goes, it is the most complete jumble conceivable outside of topsy-turveydom; and there is very little of any real historical value in it from one cover to the other.p 107

 

Snap! Over 100 years later I can still feel the sting of a good insult and am glad that it wasn't me being skewered by the editors.

 

We have a long run of Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada in the Stacks at Toronto Reference Library.   In 1920 there was a title change to Canadian Historical Review  which we have in eMagazine as well as print.