Plough Court—The Story of a Notable Pharmacy, 1715-1927 (review)

88 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION out their theories, and they were perhaps a wholesome corrective of the exclüsiveness that was creeping in along with worldly prosperity. Isabel Grubb has gone to the sources, especially the journals of typical Friends, and she has given us a much-needed short history of the religious , social and philanthropic activities of Friends in Ireland. J. Russell Hayes Swarthmore, Penna. Cripps, Ernest C. Plough Cowt—The Story of a Notable Pharmacy, 1715-1927. London: Allen and Hanburys Limited. 1927. Pp. 227. 10s. 6d. This book is the story of two hundred years in the life and history of a great pharmacy business that in trade and influence has girdled the globe. Our primary interest in Plough Court is due to the fact that many of the men who have been the creative builders of this world-wide business have been at the same time among the foremost Quaker leaders of their periods. Joseph Gurney Bevan was in the eighteenth century one of the first of the great Quaker figures. All our present-day children will be glad to know that this saintly man made the best castor oil that was to be had in the world, and their parents will perhaps remember that he edited Piety Promoted. Then in succession came the famous William Allen—the " Spitalfields Genius," who was the friend and companion of Stephen Grellet, co-worker with Elizabeth Fry and himself one of the noblest Quakers in any period of our history. For over fifty years he was connected with Plough Court. Then follows a long list of Quaker Aliens and Hanburys. The book contains many illustrations and is attractively published. Rufus M. Jones Haverford, Penna. Thomas, Anna Ll. B. Nancy Lloyd, the Journal of a Quaker Pioneer. New York: Frank-Maurice, Inc. 1927. Pp. 192. $2.00. Snedeker, Caroline Dale. Downright Dencey. New York: Doubleday Page and Company. 1927. Pp. 314. $2.00. Fiction even about Quakers deserves perhaps small notice in this historical Bulletin. But of these two books dealing with Quaker girlhood in America the first at least is in very large measure historical. It purports to be the diary of the years 1681-1700 of Hannah, daughter of Thomas Lloyd. Coming to America from Wales with her father at the age of seventeen, Nancy witnessed and recorded many of the difficulties of the first twenty years of Pennsylvania, especially as they appeared to the Friends and the friends of William Penn. Beside the difficulties besetting all pioneers the Quakers were harassed by the defection of George Keith ...