Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES41 convince the reader that eastern Indiana was an extremely interesting place in the early days. At least that was the effect on this reviewer who is also a native of the Whitewater valley. Not the least interesting portion of his narrative is the author's account of his own journey (in 1940) by boat from Richmond down the East Fork of Whitewater, into the Whitewater, the Miami, and on into the Ohio river. A large though not exhaustive bibliography and an adequate index conclude the work. Ruth Ketsing Nuermberger Washington, D. C. BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury ON ACCOUNT of the Tercentenary of the birth of William Penn which was celebrated in 1944, articles, reprints, etc., called forth thereby are with some earlier minor publications connected with him listed together at the beginning of this collection. TPHE October, 1944, issue of 7"Ae Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (vol. 68, no. 4) was devoted to articles on Penn as follows: "William Penn's Religious Background" (pp. 341-358), by William Wistar Comfort; "Persecution and Religious Liberty, Then and Now" (pp. 359-371), by Henry J. Cadbury; "William Penn's Experiment in Race Relations" (pp. 372-387), by Thomas E. Drake; "Influence of William Penn on International Relations" (pp. 388-397), by Thomas Raeburn White; "William Penn and City Planning" (pp. 398-418, illustrated ), by William E. Lingelbach. Under documents was offered the hitherto unpublished journal of Penn's travels in Kent and Sussex, 1672 (pp. 419-429), edited by Henry J. Cadbury. William W. Comfort's article was also reprinted in pamphlet form (20 pp.) as the Rufus M. Jones Lecture, 1944, by Upper Dublin United Monthly Meeting, Ambler, Pennsylvania. ?G?? Historical Review of Berks County begins its anniversary number¦*¦ with "Some Thoughts on William Penn," by Stanley R Yarnall (vol. 10, no. 1, October, 1944, pp. 3-5). "DRIENDS Council on Education has published William Penn's Advice to His Children (Philadelphia, 1944, 67 pp.), consisting of an Introduction by Elizabeth Janet Gray, his Letter to his Wife and Children, dated 1682, but first published in 1760, and Fruits of a Father's Love, also first published posthumously in 1726. Vol. 35, Spring 1946 42 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION TpELIX MORLEY'S Tercentenary address to the Huntingdon County Historical Society on October 27, 1944, has been printed as a pamphlet by the Society under the title, "Penn Is Still With Us." (Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, [11] pp.) "¡?G? CROSS NO CROWN, abridged by Anna Cox Brinton (Pendle Hill Historical Studies, no. 7, 1944, 38 pp.), is a careful selection, using both 1669 and 1682 editions but having one half the compass of the first or one tenth the compass of the second, with a literary introduction. DENN'S Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe has been reprinted in International Conciliation, no. 394 (1943), pp. 569-585. TPHE Peace and Service Committee of Friends General Conference have produced for the three hundredth anniversary of his birth an edition of William Penn's Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe (Philadelphia, 1944, 32 pp.). It is based on the edition published by Friends in London in 1936 and is provided with a portrait of the author. Esther Holmes Jones has written the Introduction and an "Outline of the Essay with some Notes and Questions" (pp. 27-32). A BIOGRAPHY of Penn's childhood intended for children aged eight "^*" to twelve is William Penn, Friendly Boy, by Miriam Evangeline Mason (Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1944, 210 pp.). A N attractive booklet, Your Friend, William Penn (Philadelphia, The¦"· Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 24 pp.), combines a sympathetic narrative text with appropriate quotations and numerous illustrations . It was prepared by Carroll Frey and distributed by the company in both cloth and paper cover editions. "POPULAR American magazines to notice Penn with brief articles *· were : The Reader's Digest, December, 1944, pp. 45-48 ; Life, October 16, 1944, pp. 67-75; Fortune, June, 1944, pp. 162-3. The last two were handsomely illustrated. TPHE Christian Century had two brief articles in the autumn of 1944:¦*· "William Penn, American," by Mary W. Hess (vol. 61, p...