Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury Roger W. Moss, Jr., has written on "Isaac Zane, Jr., A 'Quaker for the Times,' " in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, LXXVII (July, 1969), 291-306. * * * Richard P. Ratcliff is the author of TAe Quakers of Spiceland, Henry County, Indiana. A History of Spiceland Friends Meeting 1828-1968 (New Castle, Indiana, Community Printing Company, 1968, 78 pages). * * * Walter W. Ristow has brought to light "The Map Publishing Career of Robert Pearsall Smith" in The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, XXVI (July, 1969), 170-196. He published mainly county maps, from 1846 to 1864. * * * Errol T. Elliott's recent productivity is attested by the following pamphlets, which are all Quaker Lectures: TL· Quaker Conscience Under Test (Indiana Yearly Meeting, 1968) ; Quaker Controversies and Reconciliation (High Point Monthly Meeting, 1969) ; Whither Bound Quakers (Wichita Friends Church, 1970). They are obtainable free from the Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Ind. 47374. * * * For the Gandhi Centenary Year, Horace G. Alexander gave an address now printed in pamphlet form, What Has Gandhi to Say to Us? (Friends Peace and International Relations Committee, London, 12 pages, 1969). * * * "The Journal of James Emlen Kept on a Trip to Canandaigua, New York" in 1794 was published in Ethnohistory, XII (Fall, 1965), 279-342, edited by William N. Fenton. He was one of four Philadelphia Friends who attended the treaty between the United States and the Iroquois Six Nations. Two others of the delegation kept journals which are extant in part, William Savery and David Bacon. 123 124QUAKER HISTORY A new children's life of William Penn (cl967, 160 pages, illustrated ) was written by Lucille Wallower and published by Follett Publishing Co., Chicago, in the "Library of American Heroes" series. * * * TAe Quakers by Kathleen Elgin (The Freedom to Worship Series, David McKay Co., Inc., N.Y., 96 pages, cl968) is an interpretation for children. There is special emphasis on Levi Coffin. * * * "Quakers and the British Monarchy; A Study in Anglo-American Attitudes and Practices in the Early 1760's" by Robert D. Fiala in Pennsylvania History, XXXVII (April, 1970), 151-168, rehearses the difference between the care of British Friends to address the English Monarch with the customary deferential messages apropos state occasions and the delay or neglect of Pennsylvania Friends to do so. The latter wished to be plain and sincere, and in their deliberate rejection of the obsequious attitude of English Friends reflected an attitude to themonarchywhichwasdestined soon tobeshown byotherAmericans. * * * "The Political Dilemma of the Quakers in Pennsylvania, 16811748 " by Hermann Wellenreuther in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XCIV (April, 1970), 135-172, deals with a problem already familiar from its treatment in Quaker and nonQuaker histories of Pennsylvania. The present author coming to it from a fresh background finds it as a debate within Quakerism as "to the character of the Peace Testimony." * * * Quaker Education in the Carolinas (1965) by Clyde A. Milner is a printed address in observance of the tercentenary of the settlement of Friends in the Carolinas, 1665-1672. * * * An attractive account of an old Quaker home on Maryland's Eastern shore by Virginia Bartlett Gibney has been published in an illustrated pamphlet (Star-Democrat, Easton, Maryland, 1969, 56 pages). It is entitled House of Memories. * * * L. Frank Bedell published in 1966 "A Story of Iowa Conservative Yearly Meeting" under the title Quaker Heritage: Friends Coming BRIEFER NOTICES125 into the Heartland of America (n.p., 306 pages). It contains much personal and local information and many portraits. * * * An annotatedarticleon"Aspectsof 17th Century Quaker Rhetoric" by Richard Bauman in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, LVI (Feb., 1970), 67-74, derives such unity as it can from these early Quaker phenomena: insistence on saying 'thou' to individuals even if social superiors, the use of 'Truth' for Quakerism, emphasis on silence in worship, and the idea of "letting your lives speak." * * * Early in 1970 the Courier-Post of Camden, N.J. began to carry a series of articles by staff writer Stephen M. O'Keefe on the history of early South Jersey. Many of them naturally touch on Quakers in the area, for example, on February 10, "Quakers Fought Slavery 175 Years Before Lincoln...