The Life and Work of Justine Dalencourt (review)

BOOK REVIEWS73 The titles of the stories are : " Grass of Parnassus on Firbank Fell " ; "John Crook and the Haunted Room " ; " Seek 'em Keeper " ; " Mary England's Dream." The last story recounts a vision of a young American minister in the eighteenth century. The spiritual and cultural flavor that has always distinguished the work of Violet Holdsworth is evident throughout the book. Morgan, Mrs. R. C. The Life and Work of Justine Dalencourt. London : H. R. Allenson, Limited. 1932. Pp. 146. 2s. 6d. Many American Friends have read in various periodicals about the wonderful life and work of Justine Dalencourt, the French woman who became convinced of the principles of Friends and who has been described as "the pioneer of woman's ministry in France." Her life work extended through the period of the Franco-German War and the Great War. Some readers of the Bulletin may have seen the French edition of her life. Fortunately this translation into English is now available, and should have a wide reading among Friends in America. Caroline F. Ware's Early New England Cotton Manufacture (1931) contains several references to Moses Brown (1738-1836), founder of the New England Friends' Boarding School, now Moses Brown School. The author refers particularly to the work of Moses Brown as a pioneer in American cotton manufacture, and prints a letter of 1814 by him (pp. 303305 ) on the prospects of the cotton industry. The author is mistaken in stating (p. 19) that Brown University was named for Moses Brown. It is true that he was one of the earliest benefactors of the university, but the institution was named for his nephew, Nicholas Brown. A sketchy and interesting but not very important contribution is Mabel Powers' The Indian as Peacemaker (1932) . A chapter on " Peacemaking on the Delaware " tells of William Penn and early Friends in their relations with the Indians. Readers of the Bulletin are not unfamiliar with the writings of Professor Harry Elmer Barnes on the penal institutions of early Pennsylvania. Apparently, however, the former editor of the Bulletin omitted reference to a very important volume by Professor Barnes, The Evolution of Penology in Pennsylvania, 1927. This book contains much on penal legislation under William Penn, and on the broader subject of Quaker influence on American criminal codes.—R. W. K. Readers will recall the valuable article on Elihu Embree, by Matilda Wildman Evans, published in the Spring Bulletin, 1932. In the same year was published by B. H. Murphy, at Nashville, Tennessee, a complete reprint of 74 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Embree's paper, The Emancipator, the first journal in the United States devoted exclusively to the anti-slavery cause. The paper ran through only seven numbers from 4 mo. 30 to 10 mo. 31, 1820. Thus it is completely reprinted in a small volume of 112 pages—edited by Robert H. White, Ph.D., of Nashville. This reprint is valuable and most timely, since only one complete file of the original Emancipator is known to exist. The reprint is beautifully done on a fine quality of rag paper that will remain. Siebert, Wilbur H. A Quaker Section of the Underground Railroad in Northern Ohio. Reprinted from the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. 1930. Pp. 26. This is an interesting pamphlet filled with thrilling stories of rescues and other adventures on the so-called "underground railroad." It contains numerous pictures of houses that served as "Stations," and of people who acted as "Station Keepers" or "Conductors." Some of those mentioned in the account are Aaron Benedict, Jason Bull, Joseph Mosher, Willis R. Smith, Joseph Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Ozem Gardner, and Reuben Benedict. Smith, Charlotte Fell. James Nicholson Richardson of Bessbrook. London. Longmans, Green and Company. 1925. Pp. 243. This valuable biography should have been noticed in the Bulletin nearer the time of its publication. It is the history of an outstanding Irish Friend— a manufacturer of linen yarns, a philanthropist, member of Parliament, and a great lover of people. He established a model village for his workers at Bessbrook, partly to show that even Irishmen could get on without "the three P's"—public house, pawn shop, and police. An interesting fact (p...