Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury J. D. Marietta's Ph. D. thesis at Stanford University in 1965 on "Ecclesiastical Discipline in the Society of Friends, 1682-1776" (215 pages) is now available (University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich.) . He deals with the ethical concerns and disciplinary records, as illustrated by the monthly meetings in Pennsylvania, and he shows that the period was not exclusively quietistic. * * # A well-written and discriminating article on "The Quaker Influence on Walt Whitman" was contributed by Laurence Templin to American Literature, 42, No. 2 (May, 1970), 165-180. In particular it discriminates between the poet's acceptance and rejection of features in Elias Hicks. * * * A fresh report of a familiar episode of Quaker history—the "Virginia Exiles"—is provided in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 96, No. 3 (July, 1972), 298-325. Robert F. Oaks depends in part on the correspondence between the exiles and their wives. The article is entided "Philadelphians in Exile: the Problem of Loyalty during the American Revolution." * * * "The Quakers' American Proprietaries" by Richard Simmons in History Today, 22 No. 7 (July, 1972), 506-512, emphasizes the original liberal elements in the Quaker colonization of the Jerseys and Pennsylvania and describes the limitations which time brought about. * * * Norman Cohn is the author of an article in Encounter, 34, No. 4 (April 1970), 15-28 on "The Ranters: The Underground in the England of 1650." It is inspired by the recent outcropping of similar religious enthusiasts, and deals with three men in particular, Joseph Salmon, Laurence Clarkson, and Abiezer Coppe, two of whom are mentioned in George Fox's Journal. * * * In William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 29, No. 3 (July, 1972), 62 BRIEFER NOTIGES63 415-422, Robert V. Wells has an extended article on "Quaker Marriage Patterns in a Colonial Perspective." His data on Friends are taken from a limited number of meetings in the Middle Colonies , and are compared with a few studies of available non-Quaker families in other places. This article is a sequel to the same writer's study, "Family Size and Fertility Control in Eighteenth-Century America: a Study of Quaker Families," Population Studies, 25 (March, 1971), 73-82. * * * An unfamiliar phase of the versatile Quaker governor is carefully presented by Roy N. Lokken, who edits the 'Scientific Papers of James Logan," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 62, Pt. 6 (94 pages, 14 figures), 1972. * * # The new magazine, Ms., contains in the November, 1972, issue, pp. 99-102, 131, an account of the trial and sentence of a Quaker woman for voting before suffrage for women was won. It is entitled "The U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony" and it was written by Sophy Burnham and Janet Knight. * * * "Bunyan, Mr. Ignorance, and the Quakers" by Richard F. Hardin, in Studies in Philology, 69, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), 496-508 is an attempt to explain the figure in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress called "Ignorance" as embodying precisely those features of Quakerism , its lack of sense of guilt or definite dependence on orthodox doctrine, which are characteristic of George Fox's position. There are certainly some points of likeness and an inherent probability in assuming for Bunyan here an anti-Quaker stance. * * * One of the few periodicals to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of William Penn in 1718 was Glaube und Gewissen (Halle), 14, No. 7 (July, 1968), with an article about him by Marie Pleissner , pp. 134-136. ...