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Briefer Notices By Henry J. Cadbury The American Philosophical Society has followed its earlier publication , Historic Philadelphia, with a new volume entided Historic Germantown (Philadelphia, 1955, 154 pages, $5.00). It consists of a brief history and a selective bibliography of the town by Harry and Margaret B. Tinkcom and a survey of its architecture by Grant Miles Simon. The "survey" includes floor plans, photographic illustrations, and brief descriptions of eighty-six old buildings, many of them having Quaker associations .# # # Gladys Scott Thomson has compiled mainly out of letters preserved in the family in England an account of Morris Birkbeck and his children entitled A Pioneer Family: The Birkbecks in Illinois, 1818-1827 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1953, 128 pages). Morris Birkbeck the elder was a good deal of a Quaker bibliographer, living in Surrey. His son, the emigrant of 1817 of like name, is known for his early printed books, Journey to Illinois and Letters from Illinois. The letters here printed continue the family history into the Owenite colony of New Harmony and into Mexico. The family's Quakerism was not completely forgotten as members in America diverged into Anglicanism, Unitarianism, and Socialism. • · * Historic Nantucket has published in instalments selections from the Nantucket diary of Keziah Coffin, later Mrs. Phineas Fanning of Long Island, beginning wim the issue of October 1953 (VoL 1, No. 1, pp. 1314 ), and continued through October 1954 (VoL 2, No. 2, pp. 39-45). These selections are of special interest because they deal with the Revolutionary War period, January 1, 1775-April 19, 1779. * * * The ingenious hypothesis that the barn at Friends hostel at Jordans, England, includes the inverted hull of the Pilgrims' ship, the Mayflower, is presented as accepted fact in an illustrated article by Mabel Love in the Christian Science Monitor for February 24, 1955, p. 9. "William Bartram, a Classical Scientist" is the tide of an essay by Richard M. Gummere in the Classical Journal, 50 (1955), 167-170. There are no quotations from classical authors in Bartram's Journal (Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, 1791), but the Quaker author had a better classical education than his father, and 51 52Bulletin of Friends Historical Association echoes of classical situations lie easily to be detected here and there in his narratives as well as the use of commonplace classical terms and apostrophe after the manner affected by American writers of the period. # * · Elbridge A. Stuart, Founder of Carnation Company, by James Marshall (Los Angeles: Carnation Company, 1949, 238 pages) is the story of the typical American saga of struggle and ultimate business success of the founder of a firm that celebrated its half century in 1949. E. A. Smart (1856-1944) recognized in his business methods and his philanthropy the inheritance he had from the Quakers. The Stuarts, like the Stanleys and Hadleys with whom his family intermarried, had long Quaker background in Guilford County, North Carolina, and previously in Ireland. In 1861 they migrated to Indiana and later to the West Coast, where the first Carnation milk was produced and where the expanding business was established.» # # A new and excellent study of ideas in England just before the rise of Quakerism is William Haller's Liberty and Reformation in the Puritan Revolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955, 410 pages). It deals well with both the religious and the political ferment of about a decade ending in 1649 and is a sequel to the same writer's The Rise of Puritanism (1938). # * · A delightful essay—mostly with quoted examples—on Rendel Harris as Letter Writer by Herben G. Wood was published in 1945 (by Woodbrooke Extension Committee, Woodbrooke, Birmingham 29, England, 30 pages). It is mentioned here because it was apparently overlooked in these notices ten years ago and because I have learned that it is available now without cost for individuals and libraries who wish to have copies. # # # The Story of Inazo and Mary P. Elkinton Nitobe was written by Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert and produced for private distribution by J. Passmore Elkinton (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1955, 86 pages). It is an intimate and perceptive picture of two lives from very different backgrounds, based in part on...

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