Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications Mary Ellen Chijioke and Barbara E. Addison Recent publications in Quaker history fall into the usual categories. Those dealing with the internal history ofQuakerism center heavily on the seventeenth century. In his article on "Francis Ellington's Use ofProphecy to Explain the Appearance, Deliverance, and Apocalyptic Role ofQuakers in the Last Days" (Quaker Studies 3.2 (Winter 1998): 1 1 1-32), Richard G. Bailey examines an unusual use of specific prophecy in a 1664 pamphlet explaining the long delay in the consummation ofthe Lamb's War. Two works draw on early Quaker texts to support current spiritual concerns: Arthur O. Roberts, "A Quaker Understanding of Jesus Christ" (Quaker Religious Thought29.3 (July 1999): 9-23); and GeorgeFoxandtheHealing Ministry, by David Hodges (Guildford, England: Friends Fellowship of Healing, 1995). Hiromi Konishi Nishimura's new book (in Japanese), PacifistAntinomians: Studies on theEarliest QuakerMovementin England ([Japan: Kage-shoboh Publishing Co.], 1998) is representative of the continuing Japanese interest in Quaker history. For later periods, Bruce Allen Dorsey examines the relationship of eighteenth-century Quaker benevolence to the Separation of 1 827 in his article, "Friends Becoming Enemies: Philadelphia Benevolence and the Neglected Era ofAmerican QuakerHistory" (Journal oftheEarlyRepublic 18 (Fall 1998): 395-428). Damon D. Hickey's article, "Francis T. King of Baltimore and Post-Civil War North Carolina Friends" (The Southern Friend 20.2 (Autumn 1998): 1 1-22), considers why King, the leader who helped make Baltimore Yearly Meeting a bastion against Quaker Revivalism , hired Revivalist Allen Jay to lead the spiritual reconstruction program in North Carolina. Voltaire did as much as anyone to make Quakers respectable, even admirable, to the Enlightenment, especially in Europe. In "Voltaire's Convincement" (Quaker Studies 4.1 (Summer 1999): 21-56), Raymond Ayoub traces the change in Voltaire's attitude towards Quakers from disdain to admiration. As usual, Pennsylvania figures prominently in works on the role of Quakerism in American history. In her article, "The Lord Is a Man ofWar, the God of Love and Peace: The Association Debate, Philadelphia, 17471748 " (Pennsylvania History 65.1 (Winter 1998): 46-61), Barbara A. Gannon discusses the politics surrounding the first voluntary militia in the Quaker colony. Peter C. Messer also looks at competing political theories in his article, "? Species ofTreason & Notthe LeastDangerous Kind': The Articles and Publications69 Treason Trials of Abraham Carlisle and John Roberts" (Pennsylvania Magazine ofHistoryandBiography 123.4(October 1999): 303-32). Carlisle and Roberts were hanged in 1778 for collaborating with the enemy during the British occupation of Philadelphia. Messer provides an alternative answer to the question, Why? Beyond Pennsylvania, Robert J. Leach and Peter Gow examine "The Nantucket-Newport Axis: Early Links between Nantucket and Newport Quakerism" (Historical Nantucket 46.3 (Summer 1997): 9-14). In "The Limits ofRevolutionaryRadicalism: Thomas Paine and Slavery" (Pennsylvania Magazine ofHistory and Biography 123.3 (July 1999): 177-99), James V. Lynch argues that, contrary to common claims, the Quaker-raised Paine rarely acted publicly upon his repulsion to slavery. Several works deal with Quaker education and Quakers in education. Paul A. Lacey gives a strong historical background on such issues as "guarded education" in his book, Growing into Goodness: Essays on QuakerEducation (Wallingford, Penna.: Pendle Hill Publications in cooperation with Friends Council on Education, 1998). Stephen A. Bonnie studied three schools, Abington Friends, Friends Select, and William Penn Charter for his dissertation on "The Choice or Rejection ofCoeducation in Philadelphia's Earliest Schools: 1680-1700, 1880-1900, 1960-1980" (TempleUniversity, 1998). ElizabethA. RoslewiczconsidersLucretiaMott as a model for adult education in her Ph.D. dissertation, "Educating Adults Through Distinctive Public Speaking: Lucretia Mott, Quaker Minister" (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1999). Throughout their history, Quakers have been over-represented in the sciences. In his article, "Aesthetics in Science, as Practiced by Quakers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (Quaker Studies 4. 1 (Summer 1999): 1-20), Geoffrey Cantor describes how anaesthetic ofGod as Creator ofnature, and oforder and beauty in the natural world, made the observational sciences in particular highly acceptable to Quakers. With John Dalton, 1766-1844: a Bibliography of Works By and About Him, with an AnnotatedListofHisSurvivingApparatus andPersonalEffects (Aldershot, Hampshire; Brookfield, Vt.: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Publications , inassociationwithAshgate, 1998),A.L. Smythhas...