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102 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION improvement upon it, is worth four times more than it was when it was layed out, and the best forty. And though it seems unequal that the absent should be thus benefitted by the improvements of those that are upon the place, especially when they have served no office, run no hazard, nor as yet defrayed any public charge, yet the advantage does certainly redound to them, and whoever they are they are great debtors to the Country." The author further quotes from the minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania to show that for a time an effort was made to put Penn's idea into practice—an idea not far removed from the later theories of Henry George, and the recent proposals of Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer. BOOK NOTICES Books of interest to Friends may usually be purchased at the following places: Friends' Book Store, 302 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Friends' Central Bureau, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. Friends' Book and Tract Committee, 144 East 20th Street, N. Y. C. Friends' Book and Supply House, Richmond, Indiana. Friends' Book Centre, Friends House, Euston Road, London, N.W. 1, England . Allee, Marjorie Hill. Judith Lankester. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company . 1930. Pp. 241. $2.00. Another charming book by our Friend, Marjorie Hill Allee. A story of the Quaker frontier in Indiana, with enough adventure to sustain interest and enough historical color to be informing. A clean Quaker story—a good Christmas book for children·—a wholesome change from a too exclusive movie diet. Bender, Harold S. Two Centuries of American Mennonite Literature. A Bibliography of Mennonitica Americana, 1727-1928. Goshen, Indiana: The Mennonite Historical Society. 1929. Pp. 181. $3.00. Mentioned here because of the close relations between Mennonites and Friends in recent years. Brinton, Howard H. Creative Worship. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1931. Pp. 94. $.82 (postpaid). The Swarthmore Lecture of 1931 was delivered as usual on the evening preceding the opening of London Yearly Meeting. This year it was given by an American Friend, Professor Howard H. Brinton, of Mills College, California. BOOK NOTICES103 An interesting historical phase of the lecture is the comparison between "Puritanism and the Concept of Mechanism" and "Quakerism and the Concept of Organism." The author contends that Quakerism "is basically organic both in its theory of worship and its theory of conduct." Yet in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the western world was engaged "in the art of machine making." Hence an organic conception of religion did not win as wide an acceptance as the conception "that the universe was essentially a machine-like structure." In the remainder of the lecture the author applies the Quaker "organic" concept to the problem of creative worship. At the end he points out, however , the limitations that are set for any lecture on worship: "The mechanical is the describable, but life in its ceaseless aspiration, welling up from the unfathomable deep, eludes all attempts to clamp it into moulds of theory or description." Coffin, Joseph Herschel. TL· Soul Comes Back. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1929. Pp. 207. $2.00. The author is a Friend and a Professor in Whittier College, California. His book is a study of religious problems in the light of modern science and philosophy. It has won high praise in the review columns of leading periodicals , especially in those of the Times Literary Supplement, London, 5 mo. 30, 1929. Fleming, Horace. TL· Lighted Mind. TL· Challenge of Adult Education to Quakerism. London: Friends' Book Centre. 1929. Pp. 72. 2s. 6d. This book tells of the work of English Friends in the movement for Adult Education and points out the opportunity of Friends for an enlarging service of this kind. Grubb, Edward. Christianity as Truth. London: The Swarthmore Press. 1928. Pp. 223. $2.25. Not Quaker history but based on Quaker conceptions of religion, and with occasional references to Friendly thought and experience. Few authors speak to the needs of modern educated Christians more helpfully than does Edward Grubb. Harvey, T. Edmund. TL· Lost Sacrament. London : Friends' Book Centre. 1930. Pp. 22. The substance of an address given at the time of London Yearly...