Briefer Notices

58Bulletin of Friends Historical Association Certain historical studies require access to the precise wording of the various manuscripts. Careful research, furthermore, underlies the Janet Whitney edition of the Journal. The manuscripts themselves, however, are directly available for research needs. The needs of general publication of a great religious classic are perhaps best served by its presentation through the sympathetic ear of a sensitive editor. Janet Whitney's success in this capacity leads this reviewer to the suggestion that she and her publishers consider an edition of John Woolman's essays as companion to this highly satisfying edition of the Journal. Princeton, New JerseyHerrymon Maurer Briefer Notices Bt Henry J. Cadburt Bulletin No. I of the Warrington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Cofonists (York, Pennsylvania, 1950, 12 pages) consists of reprints of two items written by Albert Cook Myers half a century ago, viz., the account of Warrington Monthly Meeting, established in 1745 (from Immigration of the Irhh Quakers, 1902, pp. 168-171), and inscriptions from tombstones in the adjacent graveyard (from W. H. EgIe, Notes and Queries . . . Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, 1899, pp. 220-224) . « * » The American Mind, edited by H. R. Warfel, R. H. Gabriel, and S. T. Williams (New York: American Book Co., Revised Edition, 1947) , contains among hundreds of selections from the literature of die United States a section on the "Church and the NewWorld Mind" (pp. 1517-22) from Rufus M. Jones. * * · A study of the journals of three early Pennsylvania Quakers appears in Pennsylvania History, 17 (1950), 265-280, under the title "Three Faces of the Colonial Quaker Testimony." They are summarized thus: "Chalkley the moralist, Dickenson the dramatic narrator, and Story the intellectual, in effect portray the underlying psychological history of their time." The article is a portion of a projected history of Pennsylvania literature which E. Gordon Alderfer is developing under the auspices and with the aid of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. That may explain why in text or notes he makes no reference to the newer works like C. M. and E. W. Andrews' edition of Jonathan Dickinson's Journal or Emily Moore's Travelling with Thomas Story. » » » Carl R. Woodring has described in the Harvard Library Bulletin, 4 (1950), 351-358, a collection of twenty-three unpublished "Letters Briefer Notices59 from Bernard Barton to Robert Southey" in the custody of that library. Southey's interest in Quakerism and in the Quaker poet has been known from other sources. Here among other matters Barton vindicates the legitimacy of a Quaker's being a poet and discusses Shelley and sundry literary items. » » · In Nineteenth Century Fiction, 5 (1950) , 39-46, Carl R. Woodring deals with another relation between a Quaker and a non-Quaker writer, "Charles Reade's Debt to William Howitt." The former's It is Never Too Late to Mend is shown to be dependent in its Australian portion on the descriptions in Howitt's Love, Labour and Gold. The Friends Home Service Committee has published a useful pamphlet intended to explain to non-Friends a striking asset of Quakerism , The Place of Women in the Society of Friends (London, 1950, 15 pages). « » # The third Isaac T. and Lida K. Johnson Lecture was given before the Five Years Meeting on October 22, 1950, by Elbert Russell and is printed as a thirty-two page pamphlet entitled Friends at Mid-Century. It is a thoughtful appraisal of Friends' history, their present responsibility and their resources for meeting it.» * · The third publication of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society, consisting of a historical lecture given at Yearly Meeting in 1949, is by Adelaide L. Fries and is entitled Parallel Lines in Piedmont North Carolina Quaker and Moravian History (16 pages). * * « Carl J. Scherzer's comprehensive study of The Church and Healing (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1950, 272 pages) has a brief section (pp. 91-94) on the healing work of George Fox.» » » In Classics of Religious Devotion originally a series of addresses given at Harvard, in 1948 under the auspices of the United Ministry to Students in Cambridge, six writings are discussed briefly by six local writers (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1950), among them John Woolman 's Journal by...