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RANCOCAS EDITION OF JOHN WOOLMAN.65 length of time — nearly ten years — which the devoted editor, Amelia Mott Gummere, has given to its preparation. The manuscript of the Journal will be reproduced as it stands and will contain material never before printed, as, for instance, four dreams, the only case in which John Woolman ever went to law, and a paragraph on inoculation, together with a little Essay on Trade. Manuscripts still at Almery Garth, York, where he died, have furnished new material, and court records and surveys show him as a busy surveyor and conveyancer. The old myths of Woolman 's illiteracy and poverty are thoroughly dissipated, and he is shown to be an intelligent and efficient citizen, with a much broader outlook on life than ignorance can justify. Not the least interesting feature is the reproduction of a memory drawing of the Journalist by a contemporary. An extended biographical introduction sets forth the outstanding facts of a very interesting life, and biographical notes of the persons mentioned, together with a very full bibliography, give the student of Woolman the material for a social study of the first importance. This volume should grace many a Christmas reading table and the shelves of all good libraries. CCL. The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, May 4th to 7th, Inclusive, 1922. The Quakers were among the earliest settlers in America, but many of the good people of these middle states think of William Penn as the pioneer . Our histories teach us that New England is the home of freedom and religious liberty, and that the Puritans came to escape from religious persecution. But New England was also the only country in the world where the Quakers were officially put to death by the Commonwealth for religious non-conformity. If Mrs. Hemans was justified in singing of those who found " Freedom to worship God," it was a freedom which they denied to everybody else. Sandwich Yearly Meeting, Massachusetts, where the Quakers met in the secret of Christopher's Hollow, still pointed out to the tourist, is the oldest Yearly Meeting in the United States, dating from 1666. Its record is one of enterprise and courage; of spiritual exaltation and enthusiasm; of persecution, torture and even of death. But the Quakers who came to Maryland—and some of them were settled on Kent Island, Queen Anne County, on the Eastern Shore as early as 1658 66BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. —are the only ones in this country who can claim that their own meeting was established by George Fox, their founder, in person. It should be emphasized also that Maryland was the colony to which they had been welcomed by its Roman Catholic Governor, and the spirit of toleration was reciprocated in the charter of William Penn when he founded his Quaker colony. Ten years before William Penn came to the Delaware, a " General Meeting " of Friends or Quakers was held in April, 1672, at West River, on the Patapsco, the spot where, on May 7th last, some four hundred and fifty Friends and their visitors from all over the United States and from England, met to observe the 250th anniversary of that event. George Fox's friend and fellow preacher, John Burnyeat, had preceded him and announced his arrival in America. This great " General Meeting " is described by Fox in his Journal as " a very large meeting, and held four days, to which, besides Friends, came many other people, divers of whom were of considerable quality in the world's account." Afterward they had a meeting for church discipline, the first in Maryland for that purpose. George Fox came up the Delaware after this, and visited all the meetings as far as New England, remaining a year. He passed through the Jerseys both going and returning, and describes swimming his horse over the river from Burlington to Bristol. He went directly south, and was at West River again on the " 17 of 3d. month (May) " 1673. He sailed on the twenty-first for England, so that this meeting of West River was the first and last visited by the founder of Quakerism, when in this country...