Books of Interest to Friends Issued in 1909

BOOKS OF INTEREST TO FRIENDS ISSUED IN 1909 145 BOOKS OF INTEREST TO FRIENDS ISSUED IN 1909. Witchcraft and Quakerism, by Amelia Mott Gummere, Philadelphia. The Biddle Press, 1908, Illustrated, 69 pp. $1.00. An Index to the Extracts from the Minutes and Proceedings of London Yearly Meeting for the first Fifty Years of Issue, 1857-1006, together with a Historic Survey of the Half Century. Headley Brothers, London, 1909. 2s. 6d. [The Index is the work of Norman Penney, and the Historical Survey of Isaac Sharp.] George Fox—Aufzeichnungen und Briefe des ersten Quakers. [Selections from the Journal translated into German by Fräulein Margaret Stähelen of Basel, with an Introduction by Professor Dr. Paul Wernle.] Tübingen, Mohr, 1909. John Rnssell Hayes—"Old Meeting Houses [a collection of verses original and selected] with over fifty illustrations." Philadelphia: The Biddle Press, 1909. $1.00. William C. Braithwaite, BA., LL.B.—"Swarthmore Lecture. Spiritual Guidance in the Experience of the Society of Friends." Published for the Woodbrooke Extension Committee by Headley Brothers, London, 1909. 109 pp. Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, a Friend of the Nineteenth Century. By his Children. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. 8vo., 404 pp., 19 illustrations, 7s. 6d. (For sale by New York Book & Tract Committee, 144 E. 25th St., New York City. $2.66 postpaid.) Rufus M. Jones—Studies in Mystical Religion. London and New York. Macmillan & Co., 1909. 518 pp. $3.50. ----J. Rendei Harris—Side Lights on New Testament Research. London : James Clarke, 1909. 243 pp. 6s. J. Rendei Harris—Odes and Psalms of Solomon now first Published from the Syriac Version. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1909. 8vo., 154 pp. and 54 pp. Syraic Text. Also issued in a popular form, An Early Christian Psalter, 2s. 6d. (N. Y. Book & Tract Com., $1.00.) Quaker Biographies—A Series of Sketches, chiefly Biographical, concerning Members of the Society of Friends, from the Seventeenth Century to more Recent Times, with Illustrations. Vol. 1 : 227 pp. [21 illus.] ; Vol. II: 233 pp. [22 illus.]; Vol. Ill: 224 pp. [21 illus]. For sale at Friends' Book Store, 304 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 1909, 75 cents each. "Friends Ancient and Modern." Twelve brief Biographies issued separately at one penny each can now be had in one bound volume from Headley Brothers, London, or Friends' Book and Tract Committee, 144 East Twentieth Street, New York City. The series comprises George I46 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY Fox, Samuel Bowly, Elizabeth Fry, Stephen Grellet, Peter Bedford, Thomas Chalkley, Francis Howgill, Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, Daniel Wheeler, George Whitehead, Margaret Fell Fox and Joseph Sturge. The London Friends' Tract Association, which is responsible for these attractive little books, is to be congratulated on the success of the effort to present in modern style the salient points of the lives of eminent Friends. Of the preceding list three books may be noticed as especially worthy of extended mention. (i) "Joseph Bevan Braithwaite." This volume will undoubtedly remain one of the standard works relating to Quakerism of the Nineteenth Century. The subject of the biography belonged to what has been called "the old school of religious thought," and was a shining example of it. The truth had come to him along certain lines, and he could not see how it was possible that a clear vision of essentials could come in any other way. Nothing could shake his belief in arguments which had convinced him, and though with his large Christian charity he was tolerant, he always seemed to feel that others who differed from him on such points were in the twilight. The growth of his religious character and influence is skilfully described and the man himself is well portrayed. Much light is thrown on the inner history of Friends in England during the century, and nowhere else is there a clearer setting forth of the causes of what is known as the "Beaconite Controversy," and of the currents and under-currents which accompanied that movement which brought so great injury and loss to the Society in England. The marks of joint authorship are occasionally apparent, but the work is a highly creditable one. Joseph Bevan Braithwaite preserved all letters received by him, retained copies of all...