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Book Reviews55 contacts included an American side—he married Sarah Bancroft of Wilmington, Delaware—which will make this book of special interest to American Friends. The compiler, as his son-in-law, of course was in a position to recognize this as well as other facets of his many-sided interests, beginning with his life-long involvement with the family shoe business at Street, Somerset. His friendships included Laurence Housman and Jan Smuts. He had a considerable interest in art, drama, and music, in public welfare both local and national, in education especially Quaker schools, and in women's suffrage and other liberal causes of the period. He served the Society of Friends well, in offices up to Clerk of London Yearly Meeting, and on Meeting for Sufferings. He had contact with war relief, especially through his sister, Dr. Hilda Clark. He took a non-absolutist position towards World War II. The manner of compiling the portrait "based on his own writings and correspondence " is somewhat unorthodox for a biography, but here at least it seems effective. The chapters have each some unity but consist of many brief quotations from his letters and those of his family and friends. There are fifteen pages of pictures, also appendices, and an index. The readers who knew him will recognize as authentic the overall impression, including his sense of humour. The present and future generations of English Quakerism will be somewhat different when recorded, but Roger Clark can here be recognized as characteristic of the best of his period, while the personal and family relationships commend themselves as natural and tunelessly human. Haverford, PennsylvaniaHenry J. Cadbury Whittier: Independent College in California. By Charles W. Cooper. With a preface by Jessamyn West. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press. 1967. 405 pages. $7.25. The dream of Whittier College, though not its realization, was coeval with the origin of the settlement itself in 1887. In a manner strongly suggestive of Susan Glaspell's The Inheritors the pioneers saw a great, if not immediately realizable, vision. Their oversanguine optimism—or should one say their firm faith—conceived of plans incapable of prompt fulfilment, but the objectives of which were eventually to be reached, sometimes through apparently fortuitous circumstances. Pious supporters of Whittier College are to be forgiven if they persist in believing in Divine providence. This story is cyclical, without being repetitious. Each administration necessarily faced much the same problems: ever-inadequate finances; academic objectives and the curriculum designed to attain them; the need for land and buildings; the placation of disaffected trustees and other likely benefactors; and the by no means unrelated issues of faculty salaries and academic freedom. One of the features of its mutation was the ever-changing and generally widening constituency from which the College drew both its student body and its financial 56Quaker History support. Through successive stages an essentially Quaker institution serving a generally local and largely agricultural community became interdenominational and progressively secular in an expanding and ever more industrialized society. Sometimes a subject nominates its author, and when it is permitted so to do the outcome can be felicitous. Few will doubt that Charles Cooper was the logical person to write this book. His long association with the College as student and teacher, his sensitivityto the human values involved in the kaleidoscopicpanorama which he is portraying, his ability to be at the same time sympathetic and just in the handling of controversial issues, not to mention his enviable command of the English language, a talent not vouchsafed to all professors of English, combine to make this a sound and readable account. For those for whom, as for the present reviewer, much of this story has deep personal meaning, its fascination will be accordingly enhanced. University of PennsylvaniaLeónidas Dodson John Woolman. By Paul Rosenblatt. United States Authors Series. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1969. 163 pages. $4.50. This is a good exposition of the life and thought of Woolman, based on his works and the biographies of Amelia Mott Gummere and Janet Whitney. The author draws skillfully upon the writings of George Fox and William Penn to place Woolman in the context of Quakerism. Particular attention is given to...

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