Briefer Notices

Briefer Notices By Henry J. Cadbury The Pennochs of Primitive Hall (West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1951, 139 pages, illustrated) was written by George Valentine Massey II for the Chester County Historical Society. It is the story of Christopher Pennock, Quaker of Cork, who migrated in 1682 to Pennsylvania and died in 1701, and of his early descendants. Of the latter it deals most fully with his son Joseph and seven of his children. The most famous person discussed in the book is probably Humphry Marshall, the botanist, whom one of these seven married. The book is carefully documented and shows much genealogical research. It is published in a limited edition and has a correspondingly high price in spite of the fact that it is partly financed by a bequest made for it. * * * The Blumhaven Library, Frankford, Pennsylvania, issued in 1950 a forty-eight page pamphlet entitled William Penn 1644-1718. It includes facsimiles and transcripts with editorial comment of several documents from the library founded by Herman Blum. These include deeds, letters by Penn, his father, his second wife and his sons, and other matter relevant to early Pennsylvania history. * * « Chapter IX in What Americans Believe and How They Worship (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952, 390 pages) deals with "The Quakers—Practicing Mystics." The author. J. Paul Williams, is an experienced teacher, professor of religion at Mount Holyoke College, and himself a Friend.» # * Ways of Worship, a volume prepared by a theological commission on Faith and Order for its conference at Lund in 1952 (London: SCM Press; New York: Harper & Brothers) includes a brief chapter on the views on worship of the Religious Society of Friends prepared by their committee in England on Christian Relationships (pp. 169-74). One of the editors of the volume is Eric Hayman, formerly a Friend. * * * "Can a Whale Sink a Ship?" is discussed by Sidney Kaplan in New York History, 33 (1952), 159-63. His article is based on a newspaper controversy a century ago between the Utica Daily Gazette and the New Bedford Whalemen's Shipping List. His interest is of course the like episode in Melville's Moby Dick. Ours is that the incident discussed is of the Quaker-owned and Quaker-named whaleship Ann Alexander.» * » The pamphlet Frankford—a Historical Background (1952, 16 pages), edited by the Historical Society of Frankford, Philadelphia, and distributed by the Girard Trust-Corn Exchange Bank, naturally includes much reference to past Friends, both individuals and institutions , like their school, meeting, and asylum. 60 Briefer Notices61 A memorial number of the Bournville Works Magazine, England (unnumbered, 32 pages, illustrated), is devoted to the late Elizabeth Mary Cadbury (1858-1951). "This Memoir is designed principally for those connected with the Firm (Cadbury Brodiers) and those who live in Bournville. The writing of a full biography has been entrusted to Dr. Richenda Scott, the historian and author." Dame Elizabeth's long life and manifold interests are excellently portrayed.» * * 7"Ae Birthplace of Quakerism: A Handbook for the 1652 Country, by Elfrida Vipont Foulds (London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1952) , contains in forty-seven pages, with a map and nineteen pictures, a great deal of information about the meetings, homes, and burial grounds of the early Friends in the area in which the 1952 commemoration tours occurred. The booklet is well-written and shows personal acquaintance with the localities along with much research, some of it not otherwise recorded.» * * In the Huntington Library Quarterly, 15 (1952), 281-96, Henry J. Cadbury describes some papers dealing with Quaker controversy in New England in 1658, entitled "Humphrey Norton and the Court at Plymouth." They fit in with other information about Norton, including the item contributed earlier by F. B. Tolles in the same quarterly and noted in this Bulletin, 40 (1951), 120.» * · W. Giles Howson has compiled and published a pamphlet on Lancaster Friends and North America, 1652 to 1865. It gives names of Friends who migrated from Lancaster and visits to Lancaster by American public Friends. It quotes much curious information or tradition , including the story that Goffe, the regicide, returned to England and became a Friend, a member of Lancaster Monthly Meeting.» » » Photographic reproductions of great beauty characterize the...