Briefer Notices

Briefer Notices137 easier to obtain funds for the famine-stricken people of India than to originate a searching enquiry into the causes of these famines. The Soup Kitchen in York never has difficulty in obtaining . . . aid, but an enquiry into die causes of poverty would enlist little support." Similarly he discouraged the use or his money for meetinghouses or school buildings but encouraged its use to augment teachers' salaries or to found a Quaker college for Biblical and sodal studies. George Allen and Unwin deserve credit for publishing this readable and attractive book about a distinguished Quaker. "Anne Vernon's" judgments are generous and, though the lack of any documentation is to be regretted, her research seems sound. And even if a tendency to sentimentalize and to indude irrelevant family lore may occasionally weary both the serious student and the browser in Quaker history, the central figure whose life she recreates commands our interest and respect. Amherst CollegeRobert Davison Briefer Notices By Henry J. Cadbury William Logan, son of James, died in 1776, when inventories were taken of his possessions both at Stenton and at his house on Second Street, Philadelphia. These inventories, lately acquired by the Historical Sodety of Pennsylvania, have been published by F. B. Tolles in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LXXXII (1958), 397-410, under the title "Town House and Country House." * * * Our First Hundred Years: 1858-1958 is a centenary historical brochure issued by the Hajoca Corporation of Ardmore, Pennsylvania. This corporation was formed in 1927 by merger on the foundation of the Philadelphia plumbers' supply house called Haines, Jones, and Cadbury Company (Hajoca), whose direction had been, from 1865 on, largely in the hands of members of the Sodety of Friends. * * * A handsome and elaborate work by R. S. Sayers is Lloyds Bank in the History of English Banking (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957, 381 pages). Not only the eponymous founders but many others involved in the history were Friends. They were associated also with other forms of business and often intermarried. Later the story becomes a maze of absorptions of smaller private or joint-stock banks and amalgamations, when the Quaker and Lloyd elements thinned out. The book is rich in maps, family charts, and tables, but has no bibliography. It gives the wider and later context to 138Bulletin of Friends Historical Association the brief material in Raistrick's Quakers in Science and Industry (1951), and Emden, Quakers in Commerce (1939). The sources used by this author are accessible to scholarly research. * * * Suddenly the Sun: A Biography of Shizuko Takahashi by Eleanor Hull (New York: Friendship Press, 1957, 130 pages) is the story of a Japanese woman, née Higuchi, closely assodated with the work of Friends in Japan, who became a Christian and Friend, married, and came to America, raised a family, and shared the experience of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. * * * Friend William is the title of a life of William Penn for young readers, ten to fourteen. It is by Willard M. Wallace (Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1958, 157 pages). Though not the only good book for children on the subject, it is written sensitively and with considerable care for historical fact. * * * Still another illustrated life of Penn for younger readers (ages ten to fourteen) is by Catherine Owens Peare. Her William Penn (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1958, 192 pages) has the advantage of her experience both as a writer of children's books and as the author of a recent adult fulllength biography of the same subject (this Bulletin, XLVI: 51). * * * The latest Ward Lecture (Guilford College, North Carolina, 1958, 32 pages) is an attractive and independent study by J. Floyd Moore of Rufus Jones, Luminous Friend. After a detailed description of his appearance (supplied by his daughter) and a rapid outline of his life, the basic influences on his thought and character are presented as Hebraic-Christian, Greek, Western, Quaker, and uniquely personal. An attempt is made to appraise his ethical and mystical emphases. There are suggested books by or about Rufus Jones. * * * Dr. Clifford B. Farr has published in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LXXXIII (1959), 74-89, selections from "The Civil...