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ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS Friends Intelligencer«T>EGINNING VOLUME 100," tells of Volume 1.—January 2, D 1943, pp. 3-4. "Free Produce, Undyed Clothing, and Beards: the Testimonies of Joshua Evans," by Frederick B. Tolles.—June 5, 1943, pp. 378-379. "George School Celebrates Fiftieth Anniversary," gives a brief history of the school.—November 6, 1943, pp. 734-738. "Woolman Memorial and Settlement, a Statement by the John Woolman Memorial Association," takes account of the doubts expressed as to whether the memorial house was actually built by John Woolman.— November 13, 1943, p. 754. "Who's Who Among Friends," gives an analysis by Sceva B. Laughlin of the 1940-41 edition of Who's Who in America. There were 221 individuals designated as Friends.—January 22, 1944, p. 53. "Walt Whitman and Elias Hicks," by Janna Burgess.—Ibid., pp. 54-55. "Thoreau Attends Quaker Meeting," by Walter Harding, tells of his hearing Lucretia Mott at one meeting and seeing several disowned Quaker abolitionists at another.—May 6, 1944, pp. 298-299. "The Abolition Society is 169 Years Old," tells of recent activities of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.—May 13, 1944, p. 319. "George Fox Among the Doctors," by Anton T. Boisen, considers Fox from the point of view of psychiatry.—June 3, 1944, pp. 359-360. "Baltimore Meeting on the Move," lists the changes of location of the Meeting newly identified as "Stony Run."—Ibid., p. 367. "Penn's Name in Philadelphia," by Carroll Frey, lists places and institutions named for William Penn.—July 15, 1944, pp. 460-461. "George Fox and the Beliefs of the Indians," by Raymond Stites.— August 5, 1944, pp. 511-512. "Quaker Tryst," by Ivy Bolton, is a story of a boy's adventure in Peter Stuyvesant's New Amsterdam.—September 23, 1944, pp. 623-626. "Was William Penn a Modern Quaker?" by Frederick B. Tolles, answers the question with a negative unfavorable to modern Friends.— October 21, 1944, pp. 688-691. "Penn as a Pacifist," by Henry J. Cadbury, maintains that Penn's pacifism was sincere, complete, and effective.—October 21, 1944, pp. 692-693. Since our last report "Now and Then" (Henry J. Cadbury) has added thirty-six numbers to the popular and informative "Letters from the Past." Their titles indicate some but not always all of the subjects treated: 23, Some Woolman Items (December 5, 1942, p. 791) gives new 41Vol. 34, Spring 1945 42 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION light on Woolman's reading of Desiderius, a Spanish mystical work; 24, Quaker, Longevity—Personal and Periodical (December 19, 1942, pp. 823-824) ; 25, Pennsylvania Quakers—an Early Lutheran View (January 9, 1943, p. 22) quotes some criticisms from the Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg; 26, "Jones Lauded for Quicker Work" (January 30, 1943, pp. 70-71) uses a newspaper headline misprint as a text for a sermonette on Quaker pioneers, Rufus M. Jones among them; 27, In Other Mouths (February 20, 1943, p. 123) discloses that the term "Society of Friends" was used in 1652 by William Erbury, a forerunner of Quakerism, a century and a half before it came into common use among Friends; 28, Friends Fast (March 6, 1943, pp. 154-155) recalls early Quaker fasting of a religious nature in connection with the recent fasts for scientific purposes in special projects of the Civilian Public Service program; 29, Behind the Date Lines (March 20, 1943, pp. 186-187) brings up memories of earlier Quaker experiences in the far-flung battles zones of Africa, Russia, Germany, and the Pacific. No. 30, As Seen from Monticello (April 10, 1943, pp. 237-238) tells of Thomas Jefferson's cordial relations with Friends except in the matter of war, toward which he believed their attitude to be entirely conditioned by their loyalty to the "mother society" in England; 31, Where the Martyrs Died (May 1, 1943, pp. 293-294) shows ways in which history has reversed itself, from persecution to honor, as regards Friends in Cambridge , Massachusetts; 32, "// It Were Not for Bonaparte ..." (May 22, 1943, pp. 341-342) finds similarities in the criticism directed against the Friends' attitude during the Napoleonic and the Hitlerite threat to invade England ; 33, From...

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