Marking The Historic Sites of Early Pennsylvania (review)

BOOK REVIEWS59 the " extraordinary effects " of his tract on slavery, " that the zealous exertions of the Quakers in America against slavery, jointly with the author of this book in the same cause, should really have produced the establishment of episcopacy in America, according to the primitive Catholic Church of Christ, though neither the Quakers nor the author of the book had the least idea of any such consequence arising from their united labors." Between Granville Sharp, who lived and died in the Church of England, and whose monument with its long eulogistic inscription may be seen in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, and the Philadelphia Quakers, there was close and friendly correspondence. It is not quite clear, indeed, whether or not Mr. Lascelles believes Benjamin Franklin himself to have been a Quaker. Through a life of seventy-seven years, Granville Sharp went about doing good. He died in 1813, and this biography is commended to all of our members who delight in good reading. Amelia M. Gummere Haverford, Pennsylvania Marking The Historic Sites of Early Pennsylvania. Fourth Report of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission. Harrisburg. 1926. Pp. 88. 8vo. No more beautiful and significant publication on the history of Pennsylvania has been published recently than the Fourth Report of the Pennsylvania State Historical Commission, issued by the State and to be had from the Commission office, State Library, Harrisburg, Penna. It contains a list of twenty-seven markers erected, 1924-1926, with valuable data concerning each one. Special notice is given to two notable commemorations that were inspired and directed by the Commission : 1.The Tercentenary, 1624-1924, of the birth (11 mo. 11, 1624) of Thomas Holme (died 1695) who mapped the city of Philadelphia in 1683 and the province of Pennsylvania in 1687. A marker was erected at 113 Arch Street, Philadelphia, on the site of Thomas Holme's Philadelphia house. 2.The Bicentennial of the death of Hannah Penn (2 mo. 11, 1670-12 mo. 20, 1726), the capable second wife of William Penn. A bronze tablet to her memory was placed on the Keystone Telephone Building, Philadelphia, which occupies the site of the Slate Roof House, where she so ably presided during the Proprietor's second and last visit to America, 1699-1701. The Report is made graphic and beautiful by reproductions on coated paper of pictures of the various markers and of ceremonies of unveiling. There is also a map showing the locations of the markers in various parts of the state. Great credit and appreciation are due to Albert Cook Myers, who, having been appointed to the Commission by Governor Gifford Pinchot, served as its able and indefatigable Secretary-Director, 1923-1927. Having reorganized the work of the Commission, he was given full direction of its activities during this period. Of the twenty-seven markers he was instru- 60 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION mental in erecting, nine of them had to do with William Penn and thirteen with the Indians. Thus, he has put into stone and bronze in this popular way much new and unpublished information on Penn and Pennsylvania from the great stores he has these many years been garnering. Henry W. Shoemaker, the Chairman of the Commission, who signed the Report, was of indispensable support in the excellent results accomplished. They have carried out an invaluable program of historical marking, and have embodied the story of their labors in a sumptuous and informing Report. Porteus, Thomas G. A History of the Parish of Standish, Lancashire. Wigan : J. Starr and Sons, Ltd. 1927. Pp. 242. 21 shillings. This handsome volume, profusely illustrated and crowded with material for the genealogist and historian, has great interest for all Americans as being the history of the home of the family of Captain Myles Standish of Massachusetts, included with all of its related neighborhood parishes in the County of Lancashire. The story begins in the dim years before the Roman occupation, and covers that period, with an account of the discovery of Roman coins dating back to the year 90, down through the thirteenth century, the wars of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the period of the Jacobites, and the many changes to modern...