Ferns, John, review of Sandra Djwa, E. J. Pratt: The Evolutionary Vision, in Yearbook of English Studies, 6.1 (1976), pp. 329–30, doi:10.2307/3506491

Ferns, John, review of Max Dorsinville, Caliban without Prospero: Essay on Quebec and Black Literature, in American Literature, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 8.1 (1978)), pp. 301–02, doi:10.2307/3506803

Ferns, John, review of R. G. Moyles, English-Canadian Literature to 1900: A Guide to Information Sources, in Theatrical Literature, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 9.1 (1979)), pp. 356–57, doi:10.2307/3506665

Ferns, John, review of Lorraine McMullen, Sinclair Ross, in Heroes and the Heroic, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 12.1 (1982)), pp. 359–60, doi:10.2307/3507509

Ferns, John, review of Robert Lecker, Jack David, The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors. Volume II, in Satire: Essays in Memory of Robert C. Elliott 1914-1981, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 14.1 (1984)), pp. 344–45, doi:10.2307/3508352

Ferns, John, review of Robert G. Lawrence, Samuel L. Macey, Studies in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy, in Satire: Essays in Memory of Robert C. Elliott 1914-1981, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 14.1 (1984)), pp. 361–62, doi:10.2307/3508365