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BOOK REVIEWS41 George L. Maris and served as principal from 1901 to 1912. From this date the school has been under the principalship of George A. Walton ; and the History tells of different aspects of the school's development instead of trying to narrate events in chronological order—of student life, religious training, music and the arts (once treated as stepchildren in Quaker schools), athletics, and changes in curriculum, especially those introduced after the school joined the Eight-Year Study of the Progressive Education Association in 1933. The History is a most intriguing book. It tells, with directness and great charm, of the work of a group dedicated to education, efficient in carrying out their concern.f. K. B. The Shoemaker of Dover, Luke Howard, 1621-1699, by L. V. Hodgkin (Mrs. John Holdsworth). London, Friends Book Centre, 1943. 83pp. 5s. "Dr. Faber and his Celebrated Cordial," by Harriet Sampson, in Isis, vol. xxiv (1943), pp. 472-496. 1THE PUBLICATION of a first biography of a seventeenth-century Friend is an event of importance to all lovers of Quaker history. Here are two items of the sort, but they are likely to be overlooked. Although Violet Hodgkin is well known to American Friends, at least by her writings , few copies of her latest book have reached America, and I have just seen, five months after receiving my own copy, the first American review. C'est la guerre. Even between allies the war interferes with exchange of books by regulations affecting traffic in each direction. The other authoress is an American, but is not known to Friends. Her contribution is likely to escape their notice, since it is buried in an unfamiliar periodical, the organ of the History of Science Society. Luke Howard's life is retold largely on the basis of his own collected works, a 316-page volume entitled Love and Truth in Plainness Manifested , published in his memory in 1704. The biographer has kept much of his own wording and has supplemented the information from other early Quaker sources like First Publishers of Truth and Besse's Sufferings. The book is attractively printed by the Quaker firm of John Bellows of Gloucester. Luke Howard came to Quakerism from the General Baptists, who were very strong in Kent, and he became one of the leaders of the Society of Friends in the county. He suffered fine and imprisonment repeatedly for his faith, or rather for such manifestations of it as absence from the national worship, or keeping his shop open on Sunday. He was apparently a man of some substance and influence. He had some part in converting to Quakerism the famous Leveller, John Lilburne, when the latter was a prisoner in Dover Castle. He does not seem to have traveled widely in the ministry either in England or on the Continent so close to his home. The picture left of him is a very attractive one, quite worthy to be added to Violet Hodgkin's earlier acta sanctorum of Quakerism. Vol. 33, Spring 1944 42 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION A curious misapprehension led to her writing the biography. Herself the great-granddaughter of a later man of the same name, Luke Howard, F.R.S. (1772-1864), the biographer supposed the earlier Luke was also an ancestor. Her supposition was indeed affirmed in a manuscript pedigree . This kindled her interest, but before publishing her study she became convinced, though still without certain evidence, that the supposition was not correct. One who has been in England in wartime can realize the difficulties which prevented her from visiting Dover and from securing there and elsewhere additional data. The present reviewer has been able to glean from various sources some bits of information even in America. If opportunity offers they will be published in full. Meanwhile they may be listed below. o) Three letters of Luke Howard in the Swarthmore MSS of which one is mentioned but not quoted in the new book, b) The account in the lately recovered MSS of William Caton of his visit to Dover in 1655 when Luke Howard became convinced, c) The early narrative of the convincement, by his master, of John Higgins, Howard...

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