Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury Charles E. Strickland's article on "American Aid to Germany, 1919-1921" (Wisconsin Magazine oí History, XLV [1962], 256-270) deals with a complicated chapter of American postwar relief, when Herbert Hoover was alternately criticized by anti-Germans and by German-Americans. The Quaker Kinderspeisung was closely involved, as Friends were the A.R.A. agents. The author has full documentation and clear understanding. This substantial article is a good supplement to studies of the subject from the Quaker standpoint. The article concludes : "The Quakers were responsible for the little success [i.e., what little success] this experiment in reconciliation enjoyed." * * » Jean C. Dahlberg wrote in Minnesota History, XXXVIII (1962), 21-23, on "Laura A. Linton and Lintonite." The subject was born in Ohio in 1853 into a Quaker family. In 1879 as a senior student in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, she made the analysis of a mineral similar to but distinct from thomsonite , which was later named for her lintonite. In midlife she changed from science to medicine and served in the State Hospital, dying at Rochester in 1915. * * * LaVerne H. Forbush's article 'The Sufferings of Friends in Maryland" appeared in two instalments in The Maryland and Delaware Genealogist, III (196162 ), 35-37, 59-61. It is limited to the Western Shore and, with slight exception, to the period of the American Revolution and to military non-compliance.» · « W. Davis Lewis gives in New-York HistoricalSociety Quarterly, XLVII (1963), 137, with portrait and plans, an extended historical account of "Newgate of New-York, a Case History (1796-1828) of Early American Prison Reform." The moving spirit in establishing this prison with enlightened principles was the New York City Quaker merchant Thomas Eddy. But in less than thirty years, after financial and administrative difficulties, public sentiment reverted from the humanitarian ideals ofits eighteenth-century heritage and it was replaced by Auburn Prison and Sing Sing. * · * An article by Mrs. Mary Blue Coppock in The Chronicles of Oklahoma, XXXVII (1959), 175-181, dealt at length with Stella Friends Academy near Cherokee, Oklahoma. It was opened in 1897 and discontinued in 1921. See this Bulletin, 49:57, A state historical marker was erected in 1959. A brief account with pictures is included in the same magazine, XL (1962-63), 340-342, in an article by Frank A. Balyeat on "Some Church Academies in Early Oklahoma Territory." 112 Briefer Notices113 In Hennepin County History (Hennepin County Historical Society, Minneapolis [Summer 1960], 13-15) Avery Stubbs contributes an article on "The Quaker Settlers from Ohio and Indiana." The migration occurred about 1855-56, and includes a great variety of Quaker names with a great variety of occupations. They settled on Lake Independence and the Minnetonka. Apparently they built no meetinghouse, and perhaps for that reason they became absorbed among the pioneers of different religions, but their descendants do not forget their Quaker ancestry. Four of the early couples are represented in pictures that suggest the Quaker garb and mien of a century ago. * » » A handsome illustrated monograph by Grose Evans, Benjamin West and the Taste of his Times (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1959) deals faithfully with the topic described in its title. It does not, however, cast any light on the Quaker connection whether of himself, his associates, or his subjects, e. g., Penn'e Treaty. * * » "Joseph John Gurney's Mission to America, 1837-1840" by James A. Rawley in Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XLIX (1963), 653-674, deals inclusively with this three-year visit of the notable English Quaker, his interests in Indian and Negro problems, his relations to Friends and others, including those in high places, his influence, and the impression he reported afterwards. He argued calmly with slavery advocates, but did not even meet its radical opponents. * * » In the Indiana Magazine of History, LIX (1963), 51-58, is an article edited by Donald F. Carmony and contributed by Luther M. Feeger, entitled "Message of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quakers to Indians of the Old Northwest." It gives the text of an appeal to the Indians, April 1793, to preserve the peace, signed by forty-four Friends, together with a reply by...