ITS LATE AND ALL THE GIRLS HAVE GONE: AN ANNESLEY DIARY 1907-1910. Cowan, Kathleen. Toronto, Childe Thursday, c1984. 380pp, paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-9691203-7-0. Distributed by Childe Thursday, 29 Sussex Ave., Toronto, Ont., M5S 1J6. Post-Secondary Reviewed by donalee Moulton- Barrett Volume 13 Number 3 1985 May It's Late and All The Girls Have Gone chronicles the university life of Kathleen Cowan by reprinting her diary from 1907-1910. It is a long, and often tedious, chronicle. The editors decided to omit nothing Cowan wrote, including her spelling and grammatical errors. But since much of what she wrote, the editors felt, required an explanation (like giving the name of a cousin mentioned in one diary entry) the footnotes take up as much room as Cowan's writing. (Yet ironically the editors assume that readers will know where Victoria College is and something of its background: a false assumption.) The heart of the book however, is what Cowan, not the editors, have to say. It is not much. Cowan, like most young women of her age, then and probably today, was concerned primarily with men, skipping classes, putting off school work, and having a good time. It's Late and All The Girls Have Gone is a superficial look at Edwardian Toronto by a woman who had no idea her personal, and skin-deep, reflections would be read by strangers nearly seventy-five years later. Granted there is some minor historical significance to the work, and it does provide an albeit biased look at the way things were. It is not enough however, to sustain nearly four hundred pages. donalee Moulton- Barren, Halifax, N.S.