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ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS97 ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS By Thomas E. Drake The Friend (London) HE 1902 Bill," by Caroline Graveson, tells of the Education Bill which transferred the control of the elementary schools to the County Councils. May 2, 1941, pp. 219-220. "York's Quaker Associations," by E. E. T., reminds Friends of their visits there since Fox's preaching in 1651. July 25, 1941, pp. 354-355. The Friend (Philadelphia) TPHE LIFE and -writings of Charles Francis Saunders, Quaker botanist¦*· who died First Month 5, 1941, are reviewed by Edward Hicks Parry. Charles F. Saunders was born in Warminster, Pennsylvania, Seventh Month 12, 1859, but he moved to Pasadena, California, after a short business career, and devoted himself to the study of western botany and the Spanish missions, writing some seventeen books on these subjects. June 26, 1941, p. 493. "Colora Friends' Meeting," by Ruth Balderston Lippincott, tells of the centennial celebration of this Maryland meeting, with notes on the Hicksite and Primitive separations there. Sept. 18, 1941, pp. 105-106. Friends Intelligencer AN OLD contributor to Quaker history appears in a new guise in the k series of articles begun in Third Month 29, 1941 (p. 197) under the title "Letters from the Past." The signature is "Now and Then," which tells very little, but the comments in the first letter on visiting historic Quaker sites in bombed London and Bristol to see what Friends are now doing in relief, identify the writer as our own Quaker antiquarian, professor of theology, librarian, peace advocate, and ambassador extraordinary of the American Friends Service Committee, Henry J. Cadbury. Letter 2 (Fourth Month 5, 1941, pp. 213-214) contains a description of life in modern Lisbon, port of entry and departure for Europe-bound Friends, and two notes on earlier Quaker contacts with Portugal, the more important being the visit of Anne Gargill in 1655, and her interrogation by the Inquisition. These other Letters follow : 3. Jamaican Quakerism (Fifth Month 10, p. 298); 4. Early Quaker Relief Work Overseas (Fifth Month 17, p. 314) ; 5. Quaker by Error (Fifth Month 24, pp. 330-331) ; 6. Two John Warders, 1781 and 1941 (Sixth Month 7, p. 368) ; 7. Now is the Time (Sixth Month 14, pp. 380-381) ; 8. Finns and Friends (Seventh Month 5, pp. 430-431) ; 9. Quaker Stakes in Syria (Seventh Month 19, p. 462) ; 10. Apostles to Ireland (Seventh Month 26, p. 479); 11. In French Prisons (Eighth Month 9, p. 513) ; 12. Quaker Wills (Ninth Month 13, Vol. 30, No. 2. Autumn 1941 98 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION pp. 492-493); 13. Semiannual Sessions (Ninth Month 27, p. 621); 14. Lost Minutes (Tenth Month 18, 1941, p. 669).«OCHOFIELD Normal and Industrial School" tells of the recent ^ history of this Quaker foundation for Negroes in Aiken, South Carolina. Fifth Month 24, 1941, pp. 333-336. Camden Meeting House, Delaware, built in 1805, is described by Mary Sullivan Patterson. Eighth Month 9, 1941, p. 514. "Cadwalader Morgan, Antislavery Quaker of the Welsh Tract," by Thomas E. Drake, includes a copy of Morgan's paper on slavery, which was presented to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1696. Ninth Month 6, 1941, pp. 575-576. "Quaker Frontiersmen in Texas," from a published journal of Rollie Burns, tells of a short-lived Quaker colony at Estacado, founded in 1888. Tenth Month 4, 1941, p. 640. The American Friend H A NEW Yearly Meeting is Born," by Anna Griscom Elkinton, tells¦**¦ of the organization of Jamaica Yearly Meeting on April 15, 1941. May 8, 1941, pp. 197-198. An account of the life of a Norwegian-American Quaker prominent in the West is given in "John Frederick Hanson [1841-1917] Centenary Observed." September 11, 1941, p. 399. The Gospel Minister«A MISREPRESENTATION of Friends" criticizes the article by "^*" Stanley High in the Saturday Evening Post of February 17, 1940, on the ground that it neglects to portray the position of evangelical Friends as different from that of the Conservative and Hicksite Friends, April 4, 1940, pp. 1-2. The Friend of Australia and New Zealand <