Briefer Notices

44FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Lane, from 1904 to 1917, are noted as being "not available"; similarly of the financial records of Western District Monthly Meeting (Twelfth Street), Philadelphia, from 1814 to 1925, the notation is "information not obtainable." The entries for institutions are said to be arranged in chronological order, presumably by the date of foundation ; and one gets the impression from the last one, Sunny Crest Farm, dated 1855, that the organizing zeal of Friends must have died down to zero in the last ninety years—till one notes Pendle Hill, a few entries earlier, dated 1930, and realizes that there must be some mistake—probably a last-minute entry could not be inserted in its proper place. The book has further a glossary, containing such terms as advices, denial, indulged meeting, particular meeting, testimony; a list of meetings subordinate to Philadelphia but lying outside the State; a bibliography (in which alas this Bulletin is not mentioned, though the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin is) ; and finally an "Alphabetical Index to Entries in the Quaker Volume." Altogether an extraordinarily interesting and useful book, and one that, as it becomes known, will be recognized as indispensable to the student of Quakerism in Philadelphia. T. K. B. BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury PROFESSOR Marion M. Thompson Wright of Howard University, in her book on The Education of Negroes in New Jersey (Contributions to Education, No. 815, Teachers College, Columbia Univ., New York, 1941), devotes Chapter iii (pp. 13-33) to the Society of Friends. In addition to the usual printed materials on Friends and slavery she has used the minutes of New Jersey meetings, and the manuscript minutes and correspondence of the Society for the Free Instruction of Orderly Blacks and People of Colour. A NTI-QUAKER writers of the olden days frequently concentrated on·**¦ Barclay's Apology. In the Congregational Quarterly xviii (1940), pp. 401 ff, T. A. Bampton, a Baptist minister, criticizes "Barclay on War." He regards Barclay's view as too absolutist, too indifferent to the implications of literalism and to the dilemma of an uncompromising pacifism. Does the author confuse Rpbert with his father in quoting Whittier on the "Laird of Ury"? ?\7? ARE indebted again to the American-German Review (viii (1941), "' p. 7f.) and to Gerhard Friedrich for publishing "The Earliest History of Germantown. An Unknown Pastorius Manuscript." The brief manuscript , now in the Cassell collection at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa., is an English parallel to the well known German record "Grund- und Lager-Buch" but contains some independent material. Vol. 31, No. 1. Spring 1942 BRIEFER NOTICES45 T^TILTON RUBINCAM again contributes an article of Quaker interest¦*¦"¦*· to the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 58 (1940), 202-215, 254-266, dealing with "John Barclay of Perth Amboy." John was the son of Colonel David Barclay of Urie, and brother of Robert the Quaker apologist. He came to East Jersey about 1684 and after a life active in affairs of the province he died there in 1731. John Barclay was like others of his family a Quaker, but by 1702 he was a sympathizer with Keith, and he became prominent in the affairs of St. Peter's Church at Perth Amboy. T1HE well-known historian of the Episcopal Church, Edgar Legare Pennington, has contributed to the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 51 (1941), 95-186, an article on the "Reverend Robert Jenney" (1687-1762), which is especially valuable to the student of Quakerism in Pennsylvania because of its 65-page well documented review of the "Beginning of the Church of England in Pennsylvania," showing how the leaders of that church felt they were at a disadvantage in the province, especially because of the Quaker schools and the political and economic supremacy of Quakerism. "pBERHARD TEUFEL, of Fellbach near Stuttgart, has prepared an *"* elaborate review of recent literature on continental reformation movements akin to Quakerism. Although it is entitled "Täufertum und Quäkertum in Lichte der neueren Forschung," to judge from the bibliography and first instalment, published in the Theologische Rundschau, 13 (1941), 21-57, it throws less light on Quakerism than on Anabaptists and Mennonites. Thus far, David Joris, Menno Simons, and...