Quaker Research in Progress or Unpublished

QUAKER RESEARCH87 QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS OR UNPUBLISHED THE following list of present or recent studies in Quakerism continues the series of such notices appearing from time to time in the Bulletin. It is of course improbable that the list is complete ; but it is interesting as showing where the present frontiers of Quaker research are. Information of other Quaker studies in progress but not published should be sent to Henry J. Cadbury, Chairman of the Committee on Historical Research, 7 Buckingham Place, Cambridge , Massachusetts. Lois V. Given, 231 South Forty-first St, Philadelphia, Pa. Friends in Burlington, New Jersey, during the Revolutionary Period. University of Pennsylvania; History, seminar paper as basis of Master's thesis. Materials gathered; composition approaching completion. Frank G. Harrison, 121 Fourth Street N. E, Massillon, Ohio. Thomas RoUh of Kendal. (His life and the village he founded, Kendal—now Massillon, Ohio—from 1810 to 1824.) Material nearly ready for writing. Rev. Vernon H. Holloway, No. Stamford Avenue, R. D. 3, Stamford, Connecticut. American Pacifism between Two Wars, 1918-1941. (A typological study setting forth the various types of American pacifism as revealed in the literature of the movement.) Yale, Religion, Ph.D. 1945. Research in progress. Winthrop S. Hudson, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York. A Suppressed Chapter in Quaker History. (An attempt to show that contrary to the official Quaker version of their own history, early Quakerism was not an original movement and George Fox was not its founder.) Manuscript completed. Harold S. Jantz, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Christian Lodowick of Newport and Leipzig. (A study of Lodowick's career and intellectual activities in Europe and America, in part based on rare prints and on newly found material in manuscript.) Material collected and partly written. To be published in Rhode Island History. Robert J. Leach, Camp Pocomoke, Powellsville, Maryland. Nantucket Monthly Meeting, 1708-1728. (Covers background 1659-1708, and is the first of a series of studies of Nantucket Monthly Meeting.) Partially completed. Charles A. Madison, 257 Fourth Avenue, New York 10, New York. American Rebels and Reformers. (The section on Abolitionism involves a good many Quakers.) Partially completed. Vol. 32, Autumn 1943 88 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Mulford A. Sibley, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. The Political Theories of Modern Pacifism. (Deals only incidentally with Quaker pacifism.) Completed. C. Marshall Taylor, 140 Cedar Street, New York 6, New York. Whittier Letters. (Making copies of all obtainable Whittier letters, either already published or in private collectors' hands, arranged chronologically.) Frederick B. Tolles, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Quakerism and the Great Awakening . (A study of the attitude of Friends in Philadelphia to the preaching of George Whitefield and other evangelists of the Great Awakening in the American colonies, c. 1740.) Manuscript nearly completed. (Miss) M. Helen Wright, 2134 Wyoming Avenue, Washington, D. C. Maria Mitchell, Pioneer Astronomer. (A life of Maria Mitchell, showing also what she accomplished in astronomy and in the education of women.) Material collected and writing partially completed. BOOK REVIEWS Mysticism in Modern Psychology, by Charles Carle. New York, PsychoSociological Press, 1943. 47 pp. 1T1HE TITLE of this book is somewhat misleading. It is not a book dealing with religious mysticism from the psychological point of view. On the contrary, it is a critical study of magical trends in "psychoanalysis " and in what is known as "psycho-diagnostics." It is another instance of misuse of the much-used word "mysticism," in this case used for the magical, occult, and esoteric features which in the author's opinion pervade some aspects of modern psychology. What the book is attacking is the pseudomysticism in what he believes to be pseudopsychology. His guns are especially leveled against Freud's interpretation of the unconscious, with a scientific critique of psychoanalysis . Carle claims that psychoanalysis gives only a distorted pseudomystical insight into human nature, though he does not intend to cast doubt on the personal integrity of those who practice it. The second part of the book deals with Dr. Hermann Rorschach's use of cloud pictures or ink blots for diagnosing an individual's intellectual capacities and emotional reactions. He finds this to be another instance of pseudomysticism, and...