Book Notices and Reviews

90BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Quakers and merchants; it is situated right on the river Delaware, as Mainz or Cologne on the Rhine, and has 2 fairs a year. According to appearances , plainness is vanishing pretty much. The dear old folks, most of whom are dead by this time, may have spoken to their children a good deal about plainness. It is still noticeable in the clothes except that the material is very costly, or is even velvet."—pp. 252-253. There is a "History of the Buffalo Creek Reservation" by Frederick Houghton, in the Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N. Y.), 24 (1920) : 3-181. It contains brief references to the work of Friends for the Indians of western New York, and to the Holland Purchase and the Ogden Land Company. In the Journal des Economistes, ? mo. 15, 1922, pp. 9-13, there is an article entitled, "Le Quaker et L'Allemand." It is a curious, imaginary dialogue between a Quaker and a German. The latter is bewailing the ruinous effect of the Treaty of Versailles. The Friend replies that the treaty has relieved the German of his heaviest burden, the army and navy, and by practicing the Quaker virtues of peace, industry and thrift, he may become " Ie plus grand bénéficiaire de la guerre." Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke's " Wayne County and the Inward Light " deals with the first settlement and later influence of Friends in that section, especially their influence in the anti-slavery movement.—Proceedings of State History Conference (Indiana Historical Commission, Indianapolis), Bulletin No. n, May, 1920, pp. 94-99. BOOK NOTICES AND REVIEWS. Books of interest to Friends may usually be purchased at the following places : Friends' Book Store, 304 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Friends' Book and Tract Committee, 144 East 20th Street, New York City. Friends' Book and Supply House, Richmond, Indiana. Friends' Bookshop, 140, Bishopsgate, London, E. C. 2, England. When the price of an English book is given below in terms of American money, it means that one of the American book stores has quoted that price. (On account of the infrequent publication of the Bulletin, historical works are often reviewed in other periodicals some time before a number of this magazine is to be published. In some such cases, and in others where the historical portion of a general treatise is not large, only a brief notice will be given, with reference perhaps to an adequate review elsewhere .—Editor.) BOOK NOTICES AND REVIEWS.91 Alexander, Horace G. Joseph Gundry Alexander. London. 1920. It is to be hoped that librarians in America, especially in Quaker institutions , will secure this biography now if they have not done so before. It is offered to libraries, by the Friends' Bookshop, London, at the special price of one shilling (now about twenty cents) to cover packing and postage . It is bound in good cloth and sold formerly for 7/6 (about $1.50). To those who met Joseph Gundry Alexander during one or more of his several visits to America, and to all who are interested in the story of his religious and philanthropic work, the book will be of interest and inspiration . The account of his part in the crusade against the opium and drug traffic is especially valuable. Atkinson, Wilmer, An Autobiography. Founder of the Farm Journal. Philadelphia. 1920. Pp. 375. Jacob Biggie and Aunt Harriet ! How we have enjoyed their homely, kindly wisdom ! In this autobiography we learn of their inception ; also of the origin of many a quaint, kindly, shrewd apothegm, much sweeter and more wholesome than Franklin's somewhat caustic proverbs from the mouth of his Poor Richard. The book is dedicated to his family " and to everybody." Yes, this man loved everybody. Yet the book is almost a fragment, for we get little view of Wilmer Atkinson himself. He flits alertly through its pages, so that we hardly catch a real glimpse of him. But we all knew him as a vivid, alert, restless, inquiring, ardent, ready man, an admirable example of the best type of the Quakerism that matured in the latter half of the last century. Perhaps he was the more interesting because apparently...