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122Bulletin of Friends Historical Association the form of a title of honor. But best of all, Janet Whitney makes us feel that throughout Dame Geraldine's self-assumed responsibilities, however arduous they became, she carried joyousness with her. Pendle HillAnna Brinton Briefer Notices By Henry J. Cadbury Biographies of recent conservative Friends are few. One such is Memorial to Cyrus Cooper and Bertha A. Cooper, prepared and published by their son Samuel Cooper (Moorestown, New Jersey, 1948, 202 pages). Cyrus Cooper (1860-1940) had a varied life in Pennsylvania and Ohio and traveled in the ministry both there and in North Carolina and Canada. This tribute of filial piety contains mostly extracts first from his reminiscences and then from his letters and diary. Externally the life was not remarkable, but its inner self-conscious piety is brought out sympathetically. • * · C. W. Trow reports an excavation carried out in 1946 by the Felsted School Historical Society of "The 'Quakers' Mount,' Bannister Green, Felsted" {The Essex Review [England], 57, 1948, 100-103). The evidence is not conclusive, but it seems that the small mound is probably rightly named and was the scene of Quaker burials such as are mentioned in the Felsted Parish Church Register between 1679 and 1732 as "among the Quakers" or "at the Quakers Hill (or Mount) ." More than 25 such entries are quoted, supplied by C. Brightwen Rowntree.» * · A finely illustrated article entitled "A Day with the Quakers" and describing the meetings, the Barnesville Boarding School and the Walton Home for elderly Friends was published in the Pictorial Magazine of the Clevefond Plain Dealer for May 1, 1949.» » * Fully fifteen Friends meetinghouses or their sites are included among the 900 church properties described by Frank R. Zebley in The Churches of Delaware (Wilmington, 1947) . Each church or former church is provided with a brief history. Among the hundreds of excellent illustrations are pictures of the following Friends meetinghouses opposite the pages noted: Wilmington (12), Center (136), Appoquinimink (186), Camden (222). This book is all the more welcome since the WPA Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in Delaware (1942) was so very inadequate. Briefer Notices123 "The Quaker Calendar" by Samuel G. Barton in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 93 (1949), 32-39,.is a long, somewhat elaborate discussion of the beginning date of the early Quaker year. The author's evidence is much of it for March 1 rather than for March 25, and that is his main contention. The topic is full of pitfalls as he shows consciously and sometimes unconsciously. As an example of the latter I may note that the date of Nayler's letter, "30th of the 8th month, 1652," which he calls "the earliest illustration of the avoidance of heathen names by the Quakers, which I have found" (p. 37 f.), was printed in 1653 in a tract of Nayler's as October and evidently was corrected to the Quaker manner by 1694 for the Journal of George Fox, whence Barton quotes it.» * » TAe Rotches, by John M. Bullard (New Bedford, 1947, 583 pages) is a large and somewhat indigestible compilation from which may be obtained a great deal of information about a famous Quaker family, including the branches of New Bedford and Nantucket, of Dunkirk in France, and of Newhaven in England, as well as those of Ohio, Illinois and the West Coast. William Rotch, Sr. (1734-1828) was perhaps the most famous as a Friend, Eliza Rotch Farrar (1791-1870) as an author, Aunt Mary Rotch (1777-1848) as the friend of Emerson. The first part of the book includes sketches of over a dozen of the more notable members of the family. The second part quotes memoranda, letters and journals written by the Rotches themselves. The third part is a systematic genealogy. There are many illustrations and an index of names. * * * In welcoming the new Quaker quarterly from Scandinavia, Nordisk Kvâkar Tidskrift, we note especially the series of articles on the Quaker history of the four countries, beginning with one on Norway by Ole F. Olden (vol. 1, no. 1, 1949, 6-13, and followed by one on Denmark by Inger Clausen and Thyra S. Folke (vol...