Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES Bv Hensy J. Cadbury TN Church History, vol. 14 (1945), pp. 33-60, is an article intending to •"¦compare the past with the recent present, entitled "Churches under Enemy Occupation, Philadelphia, 1777-8," by Nelson W. Rightmyer. The Quakers (pp. 52-58) share with the Episcopalians the honor of receiving the most attention from the author (as from the occupying authorities), but none of their own records primary or secondary appear to have been used. AJOTES AND QUERIES, vol. 187 (1944), pp. 169 and 239, quotes A * some semi-humorous lines about "Quips the Quaker," from a musical ballad not otherwise identified, thought to be from about 1883. It was evidently rich in rhyme-words for Quaker. TT1HE early history of a Quaker settlement is told by H. W. Nerhood, ""•in the Pacific Historical Review, 14 (1945), pp. 36-44, under the title "Whittier, California: the Life of a Boom Town of the 'Eighties as Reflected in the First Newspaper." The Graphic is the paper referred to. ?G?? Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 7 (1944),¦*· pp. 20-33, contains a careful study by Charles Mitchell on "Benjamin West's 'Death of Wolfe' and the Popular History Piece." It shows how the Quaker artist caught the attitude of Englishmen towards contemporary history and partly through the wide circulation in an engraved reproduction of this piece, painted in 1771, caused a revolution in history painting. TJAROLD S. JANTZ, "The First Century of New England Verse," in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 53 (1944), pp. 219-508, is an extraordinarily full catalogue of poetical pieces. Since many of them are by or upon well-known opponents of Quakerism, that topic doubtless would recur occasionally if the text were printed in full. Two Quaker authors are included in the bibliography,—George Joy (p. 441) and Edward Wharton (p. 490) and some anonymous lines on the exile of Nicholas Upsall to Rhode Island, 1657 (p. 504). "DEADERS to whom the background of the rise of Quakerism is of¦"¦ perennial interest will enjoy Wilhelm Schenk's article on "The Religion of the Spirit in Seventeenth-Century England" in the Church Quarterly Review, vol. 140 (1945), pp. 12-28. He shows how spirit was used in some quarters to imply the harmony of faith and reason, in others their utter discrepancy. The Seekers and the Quakers believed in Christian prophecy and the direct call of the "Indwelling Christ" The Friends' revolutionary demand for social justice is also emphasized. Vol. 35, Autumn 194688 BRIEFER NOTICES89 DEGINNING in the issue for July, 1943, and ending in January, 1945, the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vols. 97-99, has published in instalments a genealogy by Louise A. Christian of "Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, of Woodbridge, N. J., Quaker, and his Descendants." The Friendly connection was not very deep or lasting in this family. "C1LANNER HOUSE, the interracial settlement house of the American Friends Service Committee at Indianapolis, is the subject of an enthusiastic illustrated article in Survey Graphic, vol. 34 (1945), pp. 339-41, 350-1, by R. W. Riis and Webb Waldron. It appeared condensed in Reader's Digest, vol. 47, pp. 66-69 (September, 1945). T7RANCIS B. CULVER'S article on "Ball of Bayside, Talbot County, Maryland," in Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 40 (1945), pp. 154-164, supplies data on another early Quaker family of Third Haven Meeting. Compare the articles in the same Magazine by Emerson B. Roberts mentioned in this Bulletin, vol. 32 (1943), p. 32; vol. 34 (1944), p. 40.«???? RELIGIOUS Significance of Eddington," an article by Regi-¦*¦ nald A. Smith, was published in The Modern Churchman, 34 (1945), 332-339. It calls attention to the lack of sympathy felt for Eddington's religion by most of his co-workers in experimental science, as distinct from philosophers, and it finds significance in his strong awareness of analogy. "E1IRST-HAND knowledge and keen appreciation of his character are·*¦ to be found in the sketch of "Sir Arthur Eddington, O. M.," by A. Vibert Douglas in the University of Toronto Quarterly, 14 (1945), 233-239. TPHE CYCLE of poems by Kenneth Boulding mentioned in this Bulleatin , 33 (1944), 47 and...