Briefer Notices

92 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury THE Daily Standard of Red Bank, N. J., and other local papers, published in December, 1941, some account of the history of the house built at Middletown, N. J., in 1670 by Richard Hartshorne, the> Quaker, who entertained both George Fox (see his Journal) and William Penn in it. The eight-room house has many authentic and interesting early architectural features, which it is said the new owners, Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Early, will retain in renovating it. A MONG the documents lately published in the Pennsylvania Magazine¦^^ of History and Biography is a letter from William Penn to Peter the Great in 1698 with an account of its history since 1833, when it was presented to the Historical Society by Granville Penn. See vol. 66 (1942), pp. 94-99. A STUDY of "William Penn, with Special Reference to Montgomery "^^ County," is published in the Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, ii (1939-41), pp. 220-228, contributed by George N. Highley. ' I 'HE STORY of colonial American Quakerism is not easily condensed into two dozen pages. This, however, is done by W. W. Sweet in his Religion in Colonial America (Scribner, 1942), pp. 142-66. The account is based on secondary sources and is marred in this first edition by misspellings like Upshaw for Upshall and Browne for Bowne, by the term "the Barbados," and by errors in the year and the month of various dates (the latter due to failure to count March the first month).«TWO Long Island Landscapes by Thomas Hicks" is the title of an illustrated article by Jesse Merritt in American Collector, xi (June, 1942), pp. IS, 23. The pictures were painted in 1853 by Thomas Hicks (1823-1890), better known for his portraits, and they are summer and winter views respectively of the Friend's Meeting House at Westbury, Long Island. The artist was not a Friend, as was his cousin the artist Edward Hicks. Tn Pennsylvania Magazine for History and Biography, 66 (1942), pp. * 84-93, George Haines IV has written on "Trends in Quakerism : 1900-1940." TD EFERENCE was made in this Bulletin to the unveiling of a tablet to George Fox at Council Rock, Oyster Bay, Long Island, because Fox preached there to the natives. The brief address made by Mary K. Peters on that occasion will be found printed in Nassau County Historical Journal, ? (1942), p. 26f. BRIEFER NOTICES93 SOURCES of the Quaker Peace Testimony is a 46-page pamphlet by Howard H. Brinton, the most recent of the Pendle Hill Historical Studies. SEVENTY-FIVE Years of Brooklyn Friends School is the title of *-* an illustrated bound pamphlet, written by Edgerton Grant North, and issued without imprint in 1942. A MODEST but competent address by State Historian Arthur Pound,¦^^ on "The Influence of Long Island Quakerism on Up-State New York," was published in the Nassau County Historical Journal, vol. 4 (1941), pp. 45-50. It deals especially with Quaker Hill, Dutchess County, and some of the meetings proliferated from it. Quaker Hill was once considered as a site for the State capítol. Three other places in the State include "Quaker" in their name. TN CONNECTION with the tercentenary of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts , Robert Leach prepared an account of visitors to the Island, especially John [sicI] Bownas, Benjamin Holme, and Peter Yarnall. The paper, entitled "Quaker Intruders in Martha's Vineyard," was printed in the Vineyard Gazette, vol. 97, No. 13 A, Edgartown, August 4, 1942. (i' I 'HE Animadversions of Bishop Bossuet upon the Quakers and the Quietists," is the title of a carefully documented article by Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert and the late Russell Pope in the Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 57 (1942), pp. 105-115. A HANDSOME limited-edition little book that might have been men-¦^^ tioned earlier here is Essays on Whitman and the West Hills Country by Jean and Jesse Merritt (Farmingdale, N. Y., 1940, 30 pp.), with one essay definitely on "Walt's Quakerism." TN THE Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, L D. C, vol. 40-41 (1940), pp...