The Story of Religions in America (review)

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. 49) is that when the fame of his temperance village began to spread, he received a cable from the United States asking whether it were true that a community of three thousand people could live happily without a saloon. James N. Richardson passed away in 1921, mourned by his friends far and near, especially by his dear workers at Bessbrook, to whom he had been a friend and a father. The biography is well written and generously illustrated. Sweet, William Warren. The Story of Religions in America. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1930. Pp. 571. $4.00. The sections of this book devoted to Friends are generous in dimension and sympathetic in spirit. There are, however, some strange mistakes and omissions. The author writes "John Browne" for John Bowne. He tells in his text of no Quaker hangings in Boston, although he uses an illustration of Mary Dyer being led to execution and says in the inscription, " The only Quaker to suffer the death penalty in the Colonies." (If he had read any one of several books mentioned in his bibliography he would have learned about three other Friends hanged in Boston.) His bibliography knows of no revision of Thomas, History of Friends in America, since the BOOK REVIEWS75 printing of 1894, and nothing at all of the writings of Isaac Sharpless. From lack of space or of information the author omits, in his section on schisms, the story of the great separation among Friends. But perhaps this omission may be credited to sweet charity! Taylor, Rebecca Nicholson. A Family History of theResidence ofRebecca and Sarah Nicholson, Haddonfield, New Jersey. Privately printed. 1917. Pp.24. This is an interesting story written by Rebecca N. Taylor about her aunts, Rebecca and Sarah Nicholson, of Haddonfield, New Jersey. It was privately printed for members of the family, descendants of John Estaugh Hopkins and Sarah Mickle Hopkins. On the front cover is an interesting silhouette likeness of "Sally" Hopkins (1776-1808). A shorter edition of the same story was published in The Friend (Phila.) Twelfth month 3, 1925, and has been reprinted in pamphlet form. Van Etten, Henry. Les Quakers: Histoire de la Société Religieuse des Amis depuis sa fondation jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: Librairie Fischbacher. 1924. Pp. 130. A brief outline of Quaker history, biography, and doctrine. The last two chapters are of special interest, tracing the history of Quakerism in France from early times to the relief work during the World War. The same author wrote the following works: La Soci...