Dean Bond of Swarthmore—A Quaker Humanist (review)

92 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION which was henceforth to be a shelter and rallying place for the saints in the West. " We went to Loveday Hambly's house," the Journal says, " where we had a fine meeting and many were convinced there." " She was more Mother than Mistress," Benjamin Coale writes of Loveday. " She had a great Family and God gave her a great measure of wisdom to order it ; her tables were largely and plentifully spread." " Many times in the day as she had opportunity she betook herself to her closet to be retired, and many times came out amongst her Family as one whose strength was inwardly renewed, in a cool and tender Frame of Spirit." In such a home and with such a source of secret strength the Quakerism of the region flourished and Tregangeeves became in the West, like Swarthmoor in the North, the headquarters for the propagators of the faith. Loveday was furthermore aunt to Thomas Lower who married Mary Fell and who helped at a later time toward the writing of Fox's Journal. Margaret Fell at least once visited Tregangeeves and had an opportunity to be entertained herself in one of the two shrines of Quakerism. The book is full of charm and beauty. The writer is not only the daughter of a great historian, she has herself the mental equipment and the essential qualities of the historian. She has a flair for facts that have been overlooked by others. She feels out the significance of simple events. She puts her finger on the vital point in an ancient phrase. She has a fine literary touch, powers of vivid description and a quiet humor that gives the narrative just the right spice. She has added a new personal character to the list of those who were enshrined before as the spiritual builders of the Society of Friends. Rufus M. Jones Haverford, Pa. Johnson, Emily Cooper. Dean Bond of Swarthmore-—A Quaker Humanist . Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, n. d. Pp. 239, cloth. $2.00. In those who lived during the ten years between 1855 and 1865, the early life of Elizabeth Powell Bond must stir vibrant memories and unforgetable ideals. And those of us of New England heritage whose plastic years fell a generation later, were still under the spell of that decade. The story of its abolitionist heroes, its unshakable idealism, and its radiant belief in the triumph of righteousness, shed a glow about our youth that has never been wholly lost. The story opens with a picture of little Elizabeth sitting on a milking stool on the edge of the garden in which her brother was working, reading to him from the " Anti-Slavery Standard." The scene was a farm near Ghent, Columbia County, New York. The brother was Aaron Macy Powell who was to become one of the famous band of New England abolitionists. William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and Susan B. BOOK REVIEWS93 Anthony were among those who frequently visited this high-minded Quaker family. At the age of fifteen Elizabeth made, with her brother, her first visit to Boston. They stopped with the Garrisons and met and heard most of the distinguished Bostoniane of that distinguished time. A visit to the Emersone began the friendship with them and their daughter which lasted throughout their lives. She heard the story of a washerwoman in Concord who was leaving her work early one day to hear Emerson lecture. " When asked if she understood him she answered, ' Not a word but I like to go and see him stand up there and look as if he thought everyone was as good as he was.' " While in Boston, Elizabeth saw something of Dr. Dio Lewis' method of physical culture. Dr. Lewis was the pioneer in this field. Some time afterward she decided to take the normal course in this work. In 1866 she accepted the position of professor of physical training at Vassar College which opened that year. The narrative of her life there holds much of interest for any reader, but must be delightfully reminiscent for early Vassar Alumnae. The uniform required for the gymnasium shows how far the emancipation...