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36 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. scribed, and the different fields of service named and located. The narrative is brought down to the close of 1919. Eight good illustrations, six from photographs, two from drawings, and a map of the Verdun Area add to the value of the work. Two Appendixes contain a list of the American Reconstruction workers in France; and a list of the Équipes and centers of work in France. There is no Index ; any satisfactory one would have unduly enlarged the book and greatly increased the cost. One cannot but think that this record will be a revelation not only to those outside the Society, but to the Friends themselves. It marks an epoch in the history of Quakerism. A Plain Friend. By Annie Matheson. With a Foreword by Lady Betty Balfour. British Periodicals, Ltd., London. 4J4 X 71A in. Pp. 54. Portrait . 2s. 6d. John Bright, A People's Champion. By Bertram Pickford. With a Foreword by Helen P. Bright Clark. (Same publishers.) 4% X 71A in. Portrait. 2s. 6d. These two small books are the first and second numbers of a new English venture known as " Rose and Dragon Books. Young Citizen Series." The Foreword describing the series states, " This is the first venture in a new biographical series of citizen-patriots—not of our Empire only but of the world." " It has been named the ' Rose and Dragon Series.' . . . Dragon stands for all forms of difficulty to be overcome. . . . Rose stands —not only for the Destruction of Evil, but for the building up of things beautiful and fragrant, the inspiration which will cause the apparently deadest of rods to blossom." It is interesting that the first two should be about Friends—Elizabeth Fry and John Bright. The accounts necessarily give only salient points in the life and work of these " citizen-patriots "—a term used in its widest sense—but if the succeeding numbers are as good as these, it cannot but be that some part of the admirable results sought for will be attained. It is strange that instead of a portrait of Elizabeth Fry—Richmond's for instance —one of Samuel Gurney is given, who has little place in the book and seems most inappropriate. NOTES AND QUERIES. Attempted Sale of the Manuscript of Fox's Journal.—" At Sotheby's on Monday (7 mo. 26, 1920) the journal of George Fox was purchased by Mr. Annan for¿,750. The journal of the founder of the Society of Friends is chiefly in the handwriting of his stepson-in-law, Thomas Lower, to whom Fox dictated it with letters addressed to him and other documents of interest regarding the early history of the Society " (Weekly Manchester Guardian, July 30, 1920). It is announced that the above notice gives a NOTES AND QUERIES. 37 wrong impression. The owner of the manuscript held it at a reserve price of £2,000. The highest bid was as above and the manuscript was withdrawn from sale, and at present is back again at Devonshire House. It is to be hoped the owner will now let the English Friends have it at a fairer price. Papunahung, A Correction.— The author of the paper on " Papunahung " in the last number of the Bulletin (IX. 117) sends the following correction. An error in the note, p. 117, on Thomas Bartow , is corrected on the authority of Dr. John W. Jordan, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. " Thomas Bartow was not a minister of the Moravian church, but a well known merchant of this city. He was born in Perth Amboy , N. J., 1737; married 1768, Sarah, daughter of Daniel Benezet , who was a son of John Stephen Benezet, the Huguenot merchant, three of whose daughters married Moravian ministers; viz., Mary, Rev. Jacob Lischy; Susanna, Rev. John C. Pyrlaens, and Judith, first to Rev. David Bruce, second, Dr. John F. Otto. Thomas Bartow died in 1793, and his wife in 1818; one of their daughters married Joseph Drinker." Bi-centenary of John Woolman (1720-1772). — Before the present number of the Bulletin reaches its readers, a celebration of the bi-centenary of John Woolman 's birth will doubtless have taken place...