Produced by Al Haines [Illustration: Cover] REGINALD BATEMAN TEACHER AND SOLDIER A MEMORIAL VOLUME OF SELECTIONS FROM HIS LECTURES AND OTHER WRITINGS PRINTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN, SASKATOON, CANADA AND PUBLISHED FOR THE UNIVERSITY BY HENRY SOTHERAN AND CO. LONDON 1922 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. CHISWICK PRESS : CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND GRIGGS (PRINTERS), LTD. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. PREFATORY NOTE The purpose of this volume is to commemorate the life and death of Reginald John Godfrey Bateman, first Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. It was felt by the Governors and Faculty of the University that his friends and old students would value a representative selection from the lectures delivered by him within the University and to the outside public. Included in the selection are a few poems which were found among his papers. The lectures and essays which are published here, being written for popular audiences or literary gatherings inside the University, were never intended by their author for publication as the original and considered critical work of a Professor of English; doubtless, if such had been his purpose, much that is printed here, originally hurriedly prepared during the busy rush of a college session, would have been altered and recast. While originality was one of Professor Bateman's most marked qualities, the members of the committee entrusted with the preparation of this volume for the press have not, in every case, regarded originality of thought as a necessary qualification for inclusion. In making their selection they have rather been guided by the desire to give to his friends and old students what, whether original in thought or not, appeared to be in treatment and presentation most characteristic of the man and teacher. War--and herein lies its greatest tragedy--always takes heavy toll of the promise and latent greatness of a nation, its youth and vigorous young manhood. Like many others who risked all and gave all in the Great War, Reginald Bateman was cut off in his prime.