A Journal of a Voyage from Philadelphia to Cork In the Year of Our Lord 1809, Together with a Description of a Sojourn in Ireland (review)

54 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brockbank, Elisabeth. Richard Hubberthorne of Yealand. Yeoman— Soldier—Quaker, 1628-1662. London: Friends Book Centre. 1929. Pp. 168. 3s. 6d. Originally intended for a local celebration, Elisabeth Brockbank, R.M.S., of Yealand Conyers, Carnforth, county of Lancaster, was persuaded by her friends to enlarge and publish her sketch of the life of Richard Hubberthorne , and hence has appeared this attractively written story of a prominent Friend of the early days of Quakerism. The book opens with a copy of the record of " First Publishers " for the district, prepared but, apparently , never sent to London, as requested, and then its subject is traced through childhood, school-days and military life, to Quaker convincement, followed by service, suffering and martyrdom. Local color, and the setting of the times—George Fox and his Message, the Valiant Sixty, Yealand and its Meeting, etc.,—have been effectively introduced. Hubberthorne's association with Nayler occupies Chapter XI, " The Dark Year." 1 There is a touching reference to imprisonment and death " amid the heat and stench of Newgate." There is an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones, followed by several appendices comprising extracts from R. Hubberthorne's writings, also chronology, bibliography, index, and a map of the Yealand district. I doubt the correctness of the statement (p. 46) that Charles "was got to France in a small boat, by the help of the mate, Richard Carver, a Friend," for Carver would not have been a Friend at that time. And can it be asserted that " for nearly three hundred years women have had equal rights with men" (p. 57), when a Women's Yearly Meeting was only granted in 1784? The statement on page 135 needs revision, for of the twelve who left with Fox for America in 1671, seven returned before him, two with him, one later, and two only died abroad. Norman Penney Bournemouth, England Harvey, Margaret B. A Journal of a Voyage from Philadelphia to Cork In the Year of Our Lord 1809, Together with a Description of a Sojourn in Ireland. (With a supplement by Dora Harvey Develin.) Philadelphia: 1915. Pp. 78. This Journal was written more than a century ago by Margaret B. Harvey expressly for her sister Martha ("Patty"). It was the result of as pretty a Quaker romance as could be imagined. 1 E. Brockbank takes a different view of Fox's attitude towards James Nayler from that developed by M. R. Brailsford in her life of Nayler; and she had added an appendix on this subject; but her advisers suggested that the matter had better be dealt with apart from the book, and it will shortly appear in print as a separate contribution, with further critical study of Nayler. BOOK REVIEWS55 Edward Harvey, Esq., came from Ireland to America to introduce among Friends the gray beaver hats worn by many Friends of England and Ireland , and manufactured by his uncles in Dublin. He came to Philadelphia in 1804 and promptly fell in love with Margaret Boyle. The result was a beautiful Quaker wedding at Lower Merion Meeting House. The Journal was written by Margaret Boyle Harvey during a long, stormy voyage to Ireland in 1809. The vicissitudes of sea travel in that day are interestingly described—also the life of affluent Friends in Ireland, where the Harveys lived for about three years before returning to Pennsylvania. The editor, (Mrs.) Dora Harvey Develin, of Bala, Pennsylvania, granddaughter of the author, has added valuable genealogical notes and illustrations , including a picture of " Lilac Grove," the old Harvey homestead at Merion, Pennsylvania, built in 1700. Jones, Lester M. Quakers in Action. New York: The Macmillan Company . 1929. Pp. 226. $2.00. This is a painstaking thesis by Lester M. Jones, Ph.D., professor of Sociology in DePauw University. That Dr. Jones has been able to secure an Introduction for his volume by Dr. Rufus M. Jones, Professor of Philosophy in Haverford College, will mean to all Quakers that the book is well worth reading. The writer has interviewed a goodly number of working members of the Society of Friends upon the social activities of the Society in the decade since the entrance of our country into...