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Bonbon ear TlUtfin in 1833
MANUSCRIPT, written by an unknown hand, 
has been lent us by J. Ernest Grubb. The 
following breviate may be of interest to our 
readers.
The Meeting opened on Wednesday, 22nd May and 
closed on Thursday, 6th June. Business meetings were 
held on fourteen days, sittings being held on both the 
Saturday afternoons. Samuel Tuke was clerk and Josiah 
Forster and George Stacey assistants.
There was considerable ministry before each sitting, 
amongst the Friends taking part being Thomas Franklin, 
J. J. Gurney, Abraham Fisher, Barnard Dickinson, 
Stephen Grellet, Richard Ash, Richard Cockin, Lewis 
Seebohm, Charles Osborn, John Pease.
Passing a revision of the Book of Extracts occupied 
numerous sittings. Testimonies were read and Queries 
answered ; Epistles were read and answers prepared. 
The committee for examining the accounts of the 
National Stock reported a charge for travelling Ministers 
of £900, printing and stationery £200, with numerous 
smaller matters.
There was, as usual, coming and going of a religious 
nature between the Yearly Meeting and the Women's 
Meeting Sylvanus Fox, accompanied by Richard Cockin 
and Alexander Crookshank ; Thomas Franklin, accom- 
panied by John Hipsley and John Glaisyer ; Robert 
Jowitt and John Pease, accompanied by Joseph Marriage 
and John Glaisyer, went into the Women's Meeting. 
Respecting the last named visit we read :
Robert Jowitt mentioned his concern to visit the Women's Meeting. 
John Pease then rose & laid a similar concern before the Meeting ; they 
were both encouraged & united with, Joseph Marriage & Jno. Glaisyer 
were appointed to accompany them. Previous to their moving, a 
message was received from the Women's Meeting to know if this would 
be a suitable time to receive a visit from 2 women Friends, which proved 
to be so, & soon after Elizabeth Fry, Mary Fox & two friends in the
72 LONDON YEARLY MEETING IN 1833
station of Elder appeared. Silence prevailed a short time ere Mary 
Fox was on her feet . . . E. Fry supplicated & afterwards spoke 
in testimony . . . M. Fox said a few more words & then left us. 
Rob1 Jowett, John Pease & their companions then went into the Women's 
Meeting.
At one sitting James Nicholson Richardson, of Ulster,
expressed with much diffidence a concern that rested upon his mind 
about friends not being careful enough to uphold one of our ancient 
testimonies, by signing petitions that have objectionable titles in them, 
an act of this kind being an infringement of our Query respecting Plainess 
of Speech. The Meeting was brought under much concern on this 
subject.
At the close of another sitting
Isaac Crewdson gave friends of Devonshire House a hint of the great 
want of cleanliness that appeared in these premises, more particular in 
the large house.
Josiah Forster opened a matter before the Meeting in a weighty 
manner which was the exposed state the Society is likely to be involved 
in, if our disabilities to fill civil offices & places of trust under Government 
be removed. The remainder of this sitting which lasted till £ before 
8 o'c was nearly all occupied with the solid consideration of this important 
subject. Several, like good watchmen, warned their fellow-members 
of the dangers the Society is likely to be exposed to & the need of constant 
watchfulness & Divine aid to keep faithful. Thomas Shillitoe was not 
the least conspicuous in this concern ; he said it was a matter that 
frequently occupied his mind & had revived afresh at this time with a 
fear that temptations & Snares may be laid for us. He said he 
thought the world thus taking us by the hand was no sign of our advance- 
ment in the Truth.
At the Meeting for Worship on the first Friday, 
which was much crowded, Lucy Maw first spoke and then 
Anna Braithwaite broke silence. " She stood rather 
more than an hour fluently elucidating many Gospel 
Truths/ 1 On the following Wednesday Devonshire House 
was again much crowded, " many not of our Society were 
there/' John Wilkinson prayed and William Forster 
spoke for over an hour. John Yeardley closed the 
meeting in prayer.
Of the Sunday meetings attended by our reporter 
we have full notice at Tottenham the preachers were 
William Rickman, Thomas Shillitoe and Sylvanus Fox ; 
at Stoke Newington, Robert Jowitt and Stephen Grellet; 
at Peckham, Mary Fell, Sylvanus and Mary Fox. Sarah 
Grubb had " expressed a concern to sit with friends in
LONDON YEARLY MEETING IN 1833 73
Devonshire house on the evening of the last First-day/' 
but this, for various reasons, was discouraged. She was, 
however, there at the time but was silent, the vocal 
service being upon Anne Moore [of Clonmel, and later, wife 
of Charles F. Wakefield], Elizabeth Robson and others, 
after a long silence.
At various sittings James Cropper spoke of the 
blacks in the United States ; a report of the Continental 
visit of S. Grellet and William Alien was read and references 
were made to the visits of James Backhouse and G. W. 
Walker to Van Diemans Land, of Daniel Wheeler to the 
Pacific Islands, and John and Martha Yeardley to the 
Grecian Islands.
Thankfulness was expressed that these devoted servants are thus 
influenced in Gospel love to labour in foreign lands & leave all that is 
near and dear to them in this world for that purpose.
But, curiously, when a minute of the previous year 
was read,
manifesting the concern friends then felt, if way clearly opened to take 
some step towards endeavouring to spread the knowledge of the Gospel 
amongst the Heathen . . after serious deliberation it was deemed 
most suitable to close the matter on the books, by making a minute 
expressing the concern the Y. Meeting felt on the subject, but not 
being able to see its way clearly, relinquished it for the present.
The Temperance question came up.
Samuel Capper mentioned in strong terms bis opinion for some time 
back of the propriety of framing a minute to prevent the selling or using 
spirits by any of our members. Many friends offered their ideas on the 
subject. One friend mentioned how much he regretted some members 
of our Society having Ginshops and related a disgraceful scene lately 
witnessed in one of them a person went in to drink & got so much that 
on coming away he fell down near the door quite intoxicated. Richd 
Ball said he looked back with surprise, & thought the Society would yet 
do so, that no minute had been added totally forbidding the use or sale 
of spirits. A plain and curious looking friend from Guernsey, whose 
voice we did not hear before, mentioned that at one time he was used to 
hard labour & drank spirits 100 times, which he found good for his 
body but bad for his spirit. . . A friend who had a brother a spirit 
dealer stood up & rather exposed himself, when he found Sam1 Capper's 
opinions gaining ground, by saying if this suggestion was approved 
of, Sam1 Capper should go without clothes. No notice was taken of 
this rash act, further than the pain some friends must have felt that any 
in our Meeting should be so incautious. The Meeting seemed not capable 
just at the time of forming a rule tc this effect.


London Yearly Meeting in 1833

JOHN HALL TO WILLIAM DEWS BURY 75
same is comitted ; still care being taken for the safe & 
well keeping thereof; & for ye deliury of ye sd Journall 
or booke as ye sd meeting shall from time to time, order 
& direct as aforesd .
And soe let the tender mercies of or God be had in 
Everlasting remembrance, And all that are truely senceable 
thereof praise & magnifie his Glorious name for eunnore
Amen 
Signed in the name of ye Meeting
JOHN DANDO JAS : BATT 
ELIAS OSBURNE ROBT. BANTON
Somersetshire Q.M., held at Jvelchester 27^ of y« 
7mo. 1694.
in gaff lo QMftam
EARE frend My deare Loue in ye vnchangable 
salutes the & those thy fellow prisoners who 
are sufferers for ye testimony of A good Conscience, 
deare frend J receiued one Letter from thee 
dated ye 30 day of ye 3 month wch was no Little refreshm* 
to mee when J lookt vpon it but to y« best of remembrance 
J did not receiue it till J had beene A forth night there 
and it was open when J did receiue it; for he wch brought 
it tould mee he was in truble wch was ye cause of his 
opening of it, and another J receiued since J came out 
of Scotland wth one of ye bookes wch thou sent me ; ye 
other was kept at edenbrough ; and as for my coming 
away : my mother J left in a sad Condition as to ye 
outward wch was A greate tryall for me at my depture 
for when J went into Scotland she was turned of y* wch 
in ye worlds account was her owne : soe y* she was dis- 
posest of an Abiding place neuer the Lesse J was made 
willing to give her vp into ye hands of y« Almighty and to 
goe wheare he was pleased to call mee ; soe hauing 
receiued no Letter from her how it was w* her ; all 
though she receiued seuerall from me in wch J haue peace 
for she is departed from this Life since J saw her; soe J 
was burthened & desired to come to see her ; wth frends;
76 JOHN HALL TO WILLIAM DEWSBURY
but when J came shee was dead & buryed soe y* when 
her body was in truble then was the burthen vpon mee, 
soe J am Content wth ye will of god seeing it is ordered 
soe ; and as for my being disposed of by ye Lord, in whose 
will J stand : J thinke J shall goe to London att present 
and soe perhaps to george if I can meet wth him for he 
wisht me to make hast againe ; and as for the time to 
come J know not how J shall be ordered, but J thinke 
into Scotland againe for J see sumthing of it; but in the 
will of god J rest.
Thine in y* wch neur
changeth :
JOHN HALL
Let mee heare whether thou receiued A letter from mee 
from Glasgow concerning my passage there for J writ 
unto thee but J cannot conceive y* it hath beene vt^ 
thee
Endorsed (in a modern hand) : 
J Hall to Wm Dewsbury
B.C. [=Benjamin Grubb, 1805-1858.]
also (original) :
To William Dewsbury 
give this.
Probably John Hall, of Skipton (1637-1719). Original in 
possession of J. Ernest Grubb, of Carrick-on-Suir.
1683. Convictions and presentments of the following persons for 
being present at unlawful conventicles, held at Flam stead End, in the 
parish of Cheshunt, under the teach ership of Gawen Lowry, viz. :  
Gawen Lowry, and Mary, his wife, William Bates, weaver, and his wife, 
Thomas Roberts, husbandman, the wife of Anthony Dighton, Mary 
Price, spinster, Anne, wife of Samuel Goodaker, Sarah Runnington. 
widow, John Robbins, William Bates, Mary, his wife, and Joseph, his 
son, John Montford, Nicholas Ring, Anne Rash, and Elizabeth Rash, 
Wonderful Warwick, George Archer, John Blindell, Nathaniel Thompson, 
William Wilmott, all of Cheshunt; John Springham, shopkeeper and his 
wife, George Watt, John Leak, Joshua Wright, Mary Clark, Elizabeth 
Adams, and John Woodland, aH of Enfield, in Middlesex ; Samuel Siggins, 
Elizabeth Siggins, Sarah Warner, of Wormley.


John Hall to William Dewsbury

Meeting Records: Swarthmore M.M.

Green, Joseph J

Notices relating to Friends in "The Gentleman's Magazine," 1787 to 1789

Middleton-Molleson Wedding Certificate, 1697

In Fear of Suffering

CONTENTS OF NUMBER ONE
ur Quotation — IV.
Pa*«
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Schooldays in the Twenties—written by the late Charle Tylor. 
Illustrated
4 ' Mushroomes of Christianity" 
To Poor and Rich Alike ...
The Quaker Haigs of Bemersyde ... 
1 'Quaker Quiddities "
John Thomas, of Bristol, and the Kennet and Avon Canal. 
Illustrated
Friends and Current Literature 
Recent Accessions to D ...
• • • ...Foreshadowings of Quakerism
Francis Fox, of Plymouth, 1765-1812
The Cambridge " Journal of George Fox " ...
John Sellers and his Work. By Charles R. Simpson
Early Friends in Nottinghamshire, 1668
Notes and Queries :
A Quaker and William Pitt—Disputes—William Planner— 
Author of Quotation wanted—Wet Quakers—Dr. Routh, of 
Oxford—Gravesafe...
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CONTENTS OF NUMBER TWO
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Our Quotation—V. 
A Vision seen by Joseph Fry, 1776 
Preaching and Smoking ... 
Isaac Hammer, of Tennessee
• •The Family of French
Friends and Current Literature 
Obituary—Isaac Sharpless 
The Annual Meeting 
Accounts for the Year 1918
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Prospectus of Rochester School 
Prior Park, near Bristol
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John Thomas, of Bristol, and the Kennet and Avon Canal

and tumnf JBiferafure
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in Co-education (London : Sidgwick and Jackson, y£ by 5, pp. xxiv. + 
165, 33. 6d. net), her chapter being headed " In University Life."
#Chapter III. of The Soldier Colonists, A Plea for Group Organisations, 
by W. H. Warman (London : Chatto, yf by 5, pp. xii + 180, 55. net), is 
a review of the life of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), " a builder 
of English fortune overseas in the theoretic sphere as Cecil John Rhodes 
was, later, to become in the practical " (p. 31).*
#Readers interested in things Russian will be glad to know of The 
Village, Russian Impressions, by Ernest Poole (London : Macmillan, 
7l by 5i PP- 234> 6s. net). The book describes a visit to a small estate 
of a Russian friend, whose home was a rough log cabin in the north of 
Russia. __________
•fcJ. Howard Whitehouse, a London Friend, has edited a collection of 
Centenary Addresses on Ruskin, delivered 8th February, 1919 (London : 
Oxford University Press, 9 by 6, pp. 75, ys. 6d. net).
Robert Davis (30, Leadhall Lane, Harrogate) has written a useful 
pamphlet on The Portrait of Jesus in the First Three Gospels (threepence 
net, post id. extra). He brings together" results of modern critical 
thought in relation to the first three Gospels." But why does he bestow 
the honour of sainthood on Matthew and deny it to Mark and Luke ?
A Handbook of the Five Years Meeting of the Friends in America, 
1919, is just to hand (Friends' Book and Supply House, Richmond, 
Indiana, 15 cents), which will prove most useful to all who enquire 
respecting the work of this central Quaker organisation in the States.
The latest " William Penn Lecture " arranged by the Young Friends' 
Movement of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Race Street) is to hand — 
Religion as Reality, Life and Power, by Rufus M. Jones.
*
x WakefieJd's life was written by Dr. Garnett, and published in 1898.
= not in D.
Vol.xvii. — 204. 33
34 FRIENDS AND CURRENT LITERATURE
The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead has, once more, re­ 
appeared in modern form with ancient wording, published by the Marshall 
Jones Company, of Boston, Mass. This reprint is taken " from the 
report embedded in the second volume of the four great folios, comprising 
' A Compleat Collection of State Tryals ' " London, 1719. Don C. Seitz, 
managing editor of the New York World, contributes an Introduction. 
The price is $1.00.
William Brown, J.P., M.R.C. V.S., of Wiveliscombe, Som., has collected 
together at the request of the Friends' Anti-Vivisection Association, a 
series of lectures delivered by him, and issued them under the title Our 
Lesser Brethren (London: Headley, Devonshire Street, E.G.2., 7f by 5, 
pp. 63 and 12 illustrations, price 2s.).
Two new pamphlets by Rendel Harris have been added to the 
Library—The Origin of the Doctrine of the Trinity, A Popular Exposition 
and The Origin and Meaning of Apple Cults, London, etc. : Longmans.
The first number of The Schools Journal appeared in October. 
It is issued in May and October. The editor is Richard B. Graham, of 
Leighton Park, and the treasurer Florence D. Priestman, Penketh 
School, Warrington. The subscription is three shillings per annum. 
The first of a series of articles on " The History of the Schools " deals 
with Stramongate School, Kendal.
#The Indictment of War is "an anthology of prose and verse from 
the great writers of all ages who have written against War " (London : 
Daniel, 9 by 5^, pp. 548, los. 6d. net). Among the writers are Robert 
Barclay (" Apology "), John Bellers (" Some Reasons for an European 
State "), John Bright, Jonathan Dymond, George Fox (" Journal "), 
William Howitt (" Mad War-Planet"), William Penn (" Primitive 
Christianity "), Joshua Rowntree (" Brute Force "), Silvanus P. Thomp­ 
son ("Christ and Modern Life/') John G. Whittier (" Toussaint 
L'Ouvefture ").
It is very satisfactory to have some Quaker stories written by one 
who understands Quakerism. We have had Violet Hodgkin's "Quaker 
Saints " and now comes Maude Robinson's collection entitled The Time 
of her Life, and other Stories (London : Swarthmore Press, late Headley 
Bros., 8 by 5$, pp. 264, 6s. net). The stories range over the whole 
period of Quaker history—1682-1875—and are admirably told. There 
are four coloured drawings by Percy Bigland, the frontispiece being 
4C William Penn's Appointed Meeting at the Blue Idol."
Another book by Edward Grubb has been published—Christ in 
Christian Thought being notes on the Development of the Doctrine 
of Christ's Person (London : Clarke, yf by 5^, pp. 162, 33. 6d. net). 
Much of the contents of this book has previously appeared in " Bible 
Notes," vol. vii. and " Study Notes," vol. viii. 1911 and 1912.
FRIENDS AND CURRENT LITERATURE 35
#The latest book by Richard Roberts is The Unfinished Programme 
of Democracy (London : Swarthmore Press, y£ by 5, pp. 326, 6s. net).
A work upon which the late Josiah Newman spent so many enthu­ 
siastic hours, has been issued, edited by his daughter Winifred— 
Sidcot School Register, 1808-1912.
(To be obtained from E. Winifred Newman, Westlands, Winscombe, 
Somerset. Price 6s. 6d.)
A Reasonable Revolution, by Bertram Pickard, a member of 
Mansfield Meeting (London : Alien & Unwin, 8£ by 5^, pp. 78, 2S. 6d.). 
This is a discussion of the State Bonus Scheme—a proposal for a National 
Mininum Income.
The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Cewury, by Alice 
Clark, of Street, Som., Shaw Research Student of the London School 
of Economics and Political Science, is now out (London : Routledge; 
and New York: Dutton, 8£ by 5^, pp. 335, los. 6d. net). Although 
the chapter headings sound somewhat technical—Capitalists, Agricul­ 
ture, Textiles, Crafts and Trades, Professions—the book is written 
in such an interesting manner that it will appeal to a large circle of 
readers. There are eleven pages of cited authorities, each with the 
British Museum press-mark, showing that the author has examined 
a mass of material in print and manuscript.
Alice Clark has written an article on the same subject as her book, 
which will appear in the Swarthmoor Account Book now being printed 
by the Cambridge University Press.
New editions of the Hero Stories, by the late Mary Spencer, have been 
issued by the Friends' Tract Association, 15, Devonshire Street, London, 
E.C.2. " Onas and the Indians, 11 " A Safe Castle," " The Viwan Con­ 
querors," and " Peace Across the Snow/' 4d. per dozen; 2S. 8d. per 
100. __________
The latest book on Africa by John H. Harris, of the Aborigines 
Protection Society, who has recently joined Friends in London, is 
Africa : Slave or Free (London : Student Christian Movement, y£ by 5, 
pp. xx. 4- 244,6s. net). There is a preface by Sir Sydney Olivier, formerly 
Governor of Jamaica.
Olaf Baker, a London Friend, author of " The Questing Heart," 
has brought out another little collection of his verses, The Tramp of 
Eternity (London : Alien & Unwin, 7^ by 4!, pp. 62, 2S. 6d. net).
Harlow Lindley has sent over a fine volume of 441 pages, recording 
the celebrations held in connection with the " one hundredth Anni­ 
versary of Indiana's Admission to Statehood." Our Friend is secretary 
of the Indiana Historical Commission, Indianopolis. Ind. Various 
Friends figure in these records. Numerous pageants took place, among
36 FRIENDS AND CURRENT LITERATURE
the scenes represented were the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, 
Early Life in Indiana. In Indianapolis there was a professional 
pageant:
" The various episodes of the 275 years of Quakerism were presented, 
the section being headed by a Quaker on horseback, depicting the 
old-time Friend. In this section were the * Quakers of 1856,' a pioneer 
family in an ancient * rockaway ' carriage, and the c Quaker of 1916 f 
in a modern automobile. Timothy Nicholson, of Richmond, one of the 
oldest Quakers in the State and the founder of the State Board of 
Charities, rode alone in an automobile and was much applauded " 
(p. 295). _________
An interesting article on " The Old Milestones about Philadelphia/* 
written by Joshua L. Baily, Jr., appears in the current number of the 
Bulletin of Friends 9 Historical Society of Philadelphia (vol. ix. no. 2). 
The editor's reviews of " Books oi Interest to Friends " are always 
valuable.
#For the eleventh year in succession, Samuel Graveson, manager of 
the Swarthmore Press (Headley Brothers^, 72, Oxford Street, has com 
piled and issued a Record of notable Achievements and Events, under 
the title : The Year 1919 Illustrated, pp. 192, and over fifty illustrations. 
6s. net. The compiler has been assisted by H. Wilson Harris, 
Malcolm Sparkes, Arthur Henderson, Alec Waugh and others.
•fcMessrs. Evans Brothers, of Montague House, Russell Square, W.C.i f 
have brought out a Book of Great Lives—short life-stories of great menf 
prepared for young people. Among the fifty three sketches are three 
Friends—Lord Lister, Elizabeth Fry, and John Dalton.
The Associate Professor of History in Haverford College, Pa., 
Rayner W. Kelsey, author of " Friends and the Indians/' has again 
put us under obligation,—his latest work being Centennial History oj 
Moses Brown School, 1819-1919 (Providence, R.I. : Moses Brown School, 
9|by 6£, pp. xviiL + iyS, $2.00 ; London : Friends' Bookshop, us. 6d.). 
The salient dates of the century and of its antecedent years are as 
follows: The Portsmouth School, 1784-1788; The Interregnum, 1788- 
1818 ; Problems and Progress, 1820-1836; Battling with Adversity, 
1836-1852 ; The Middle Age, 1853-1860 ; The Horn of Plenty, 1860- 
1879; Modern History, 1879-1904, and "Moses Brown School," 1904-
1919.
The interesting life-history of Moses Brown (1738-1836), promoter 
and benefactor of this New England Y.M. boarding school, is detailed, 
also that of his only son, Obadiah (c. 1771-1822), and of his son-in-law, 
William Almy (c. 1761-1836), yarn-spinner and preacher, both muni­ 
ficent supporters of the school. Many other figures come and go before 
our eyes—John Griscom, principal, 1832-1835, "probably the most 
learned member of the Society of Friends in America "; Thomas J. Battey,
FRIENDS AND CURRENT LITERATURE 37
teacher of science since 1868, to whom the book is dedicated ; Augus­ 
tine Jones, principal, 1879-1904 ; Walter S. Header, at the School 1880- 
1904, and clerk of New England Y. M. for many years ; the twin 
brothers, Alfred H. and Albert K. Smiley; Samuel J. Gummere, 
teacher of classics, 1832-1834 ; and Rufus M. Jones, teacher of modern 
languages ,1887-1889, both later of Haverford College ; and many others. 
Timothy Nicholson, the veteran Quaker of the Middle West, was a scholar, 
1847-1848.
Rufus M. Jones's Introduction is good reading. There are numerous 
illustrations and a full index.
The Literary Who's Who, for 1920, successor to " The Literary Year 
Book," is likely to find a useful place on the office-desk. (London : 
Routledge, 8| by 5f, pp. 411, 8s. 6d.)
A recent issue from the office of the Student Christian Movement, 
Russell Square, London, is The Word made Flesh : Notes on the Johan- 
nine Gospel and Epistle, by Edward Grubb, 43. net.
Two presidential addresses on surgical and medical subjects have 
reached the Reference Library from the authors.
Sir Rickman J. Godlee, Bart., K.C.V.O., LL.D., F.R.C.S., addressed 
the Birmingham and Midland Institute, last autumn on Our Attitude 
towards Modern Miracles, and Bedford Pierce, M.D., F.R.C.P., Lond., 
The Retreat, York, gave the address at the annual meeting of the 
Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland, in York, 
in July last, on Psychiatry a Hundred Years Ago, with comments on 
the problems of to-day.
Elizabeth York (Mrs. Samuel Veale Bracher) has done good service 
in showing how ancient is the idea of a union of countries for their 
common good, in her Leagues of Nations : Ancient, Medieval and 
Modern. (London : Swarthmore Press, 7^ by 5, pp. 337, 8s. 6d. net.) 
Chapter V. concerns itself with William Penn's European Diet, Appendix 
VI. gives a list of twenty-nine international schemes.
Inward Light is a drama in four acts, prepared by Allan 
Davis and Anna R. Stratton. (New York : Knopf, 7! by 5j, pp. 135, 
price in America, $1.35 ; in Great Britain, us.) The time is the period 
of the American Civil War and the subject that of peace and war, but 
only the side of the fighting Quaker is introduced not that of the passive 
resister. For a review, see " The American Friend," i mo. i. 1920 ; " The 
Friend " (Lond.), 9 iv. 20.
Friends' Council for International Service (London : Ethelburga 
House, E.C.2), has issued two pamphlets—Quakerism, by T. Corder 
Catchpool, 2d.; and Friends' Service in War Time, by Elizabeth Fox 
Howard, 6d. In the former paper, page 7, for Bedford, read Derby.
38 FRIENDS AND CURRENT LITERATURE
The life of Professor Thompson, written by his widow and daughter, 
is now out. Silvanus Phillips Thompson, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., His 
Life and Letters, by Jane Smeal Thompson and Helen G. Thompson, 
B.Sc. (London : Fisher Unwin, 9 by 5f, pp. 372, and 13 illustrations, 
2is. net). Mrs. Thompson has presented a copy to D.
The story of the work of the Ambulance Unit is now out—The 
Friends* Ambulance Unit, 19/4-1919 (London: Swarthmore Press, 
9f by 7^, pp. xxiv. +264, many illustrations, also maps and charts, 
2is. net). Edited by D. Meaburn Tatham and James E. Miles. Intro­ 
duction by Sir George Newman.
Among the Rose and Dragon Books is a new series for " Young 
Citizens," the first of which is A Plain Friend (Elizabeth Fry), by Annie 
Matheson (London : British Periodicals, Ltd., Gough Square, 7^ by 
41, pp. 54, 2S. 6d. net; literary manager, Bertram Pickard). This 
is by no means a mere resum6 of other " lives " but contains useful 
fresh matter.
Alien David Hole, of the Department of Geology, Earlham College, 
Ind., U.S.A., has sent for preservation several scientific papers he has 
prepared, which have appeared in periodical literature. Glaciation 
of the Telluride Quadrangle, Colorado, III., 1912, On the Molding Sands 
of Indiana, 1918, and Terraces of the Whitewater River near Richmond, 
Indiana, 1911.
A. D. Hole has also presented a copy of his David Worth Dennis an 
Appreciation, extracted from the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy 
of Science, 1916. D. W. Dennis (1849-1916) was a professor in Earlham 
College, Ind.
John S. Hoyland, M.A., has translated into Hindi E. B. Emmott's 
Story of Quakerism. It can be obtained for ten annas from the Christian 
Mission Press, Jubbulpore. Copy in D.
J. S. Hoyland has also sent copies of his Sketch of Modern European 
History (Allahabad, 1918), and Christ and National Reconstruction. A 
Bible Study Ttxt-Book (Jubbulpore, 1918).
The Better Germany in War Time, by Harold Picton (Manchester : 
National Labour Press, 55.), contains a valuable outside view of the work 
of the Friends' Emergency Committee.
Our Friend, H. Wilson Harris, who spent three months in Paris as 
special correspondent of " The Daily News/' has given his impressions of 
the Peace Conference in The Peace in the Making, which he describes as 
" a little more than a personal impression and a good deal less than a 
considered history " (London : Swarthmore Press, 7£ by 5, pp. 246, 
6s. net).
FRIENDS AND CURRENT LITERATURE 39
We heartily welcome another edition of Alien C. Thomas's History 
of the Friends in America (Philadelphia : Winston, 8J by 5^, pp. 285, 
Pennsbury Series No. IV.), but we regret that the production of such 
valuable matter should have been somewhat marred by the use of some 
of the plates of the previous edition, which gives to the pages a patchy 
appearance, and an undue limiting of the editor in the work of corri­ 
genda and addenda. Chapter IX. is new and worthy of careful study. 
It is good to read the following paragraph :
" Not for over a century has there been such a feeling of good-will 
as exists at present (1919). It is more ard more recognised that kindly 
feeling and co-operation are quite possible though there may be at 
the same time great differences of opinion even on important matters " 
(page 225). __________
With the experience of the last few years in mind there is not much 
written in praise of war.2 Of books written to reveal its horrors surely 
this volume is facile princeps Civilisation, 1914-1918, by Georges 
Duhamel, translated from the French by T. P. Conwil-Evans (London: 
Swarthmore Press, 7^ by 5, pp. 248, 6s. net). Here is a word-picture of 
the wounded :
" Placed side by side on the uneven ground, they made a mosaic 
of pain stained with mud and blood, the colours of war; reeking with 
sweat and corruption, the smells of war; noisy with cries, moans and 
hiccups, which are the sounds and music of war " (page 38).
Anna Yarnall, for many years instructor in English in Friends 1 
Select School, Philadelphia, Pa., has issued a little volume of her poems, 
under the title Golden Memories (author, 1729 Arch Street, Phila­ 
delphia, Pa., U.S.A., 7jby 5, pp. 120, $1.50). Presented by the author 
to D. _______
There is a chapter on " George Fox and the Quaker Movement " 
in a recent book, From the Great Awakening to the Evangelical Revival, 
by Benjamin Nightingale, M.A., Lixx.D. (London : Congregational 
Union, 7^ by 4!, pp. 160, 2s. 6d.). This is a very useful and readable 
book, dealing briefly with English religious life from the sixteenth to the 
twentieth century.
2 Yet we find such remarks as the following, taken from Edward 
Wyndham Tennant : A Memoir by his mother, Pamela Glenconner, 
London, 1919 :
"It is rather fun making these entanglements and imagining the 
Germans coming along in the dark and falling over these things, and 
starting to shout; whereupon you immediately send up a flare (which 
lasts ten seconds) and turn a machine gun on to them as they struggle 
in the wire. It sounds cruel but is War " (Letter to his younger brother, 
15 Sept., 1915)-
" We were safely relieved last night and are now going back for a 
day or two. We have had all the kicks and none of the ha'pence in this 
show, as other batts. had the fun of repulsing attacks and killing hundreds, 
while we had to just sit anci be shelled " (Letter to his mother, 12 Ser' , 
1916).


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