Briefer Notices

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BRIEFER NOTICES By Henry J. Cadbury C. Clayton Terrell published in 1967 a very informative illustrated pamphlet of forty-eight pages on Quaker Migration to Southwest Ohio. This took place mainly before 1810. Attention is given to the motives for migration, to some individual leaders, and to the many local meetings established in the area of which Wilmington is today the educational capital. "Forerunners of Freedom: The Grimké Sisters in Massachusetts, 183738 ," by Keith E. Melder in the Essex Institute Historical Collections, CIII (1967), 223-249, shows that these southern gentlewomen really initiated the campaign which matured later in New York State and elsewhere as the women's rights movement. Though preaching freedom for slaves they illustrated by their public speaking female emancipation. Sarah formally joined the Society of Friends; Angelina also came to leave the church. * # * Gilbert E. Thomas: His Book, by Mabel S. Kantor (Privately published, Havertown, Pa., 1967) is a family reminiscence or memoir about Gilbert Elwood Thomas (1880-1962), a forward-looking Quaker farmer of Ohio (Conservative) Yearly Meeting, and long associated with the Boarding School and Walton Home at Barnesville. It gives an intimate picture of family life and changes in public affairs. In the American Booh Collector, XVIII, No. 4 (December, 1967), 22-24, there is a brief article called "The Quest for Lindley Murray" that gives some information about the life and writings of this Quaker author of popular textbooks. On the bicentenary of the birth of John Dalton a full bibliography compiled by A. L. Smyth, F.L.A., has been published (John Dalton 1766-1844: A Bibliography of Works by and about Him, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1966, xvi + 114 pages). It includes in Part I his published works, his surviving manuscripts (other than some correspondence), his papers prepared for the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and his lectures. Part II lists material about him including manuscripts, portraits, sculpture, etc. There are 771 separate entries, eleven illustrations, and an index. Another bicentenary publication, indicating mainly his scientific contribution, but with some reference to his Quakerism in his private life, is John Dalton and the Atom by Frank Greenaway (Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University Press, 1966). 124 Briefer Notices125 "Quaker Schools in Dublin," by Michael Quane, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, XCIV (1964), 47-68, extends from 1680 to 1844. The article contains a surprising amount of relevant information both about schools for Friends' children and the free school for non-Friends as well. Of particular interest, because rarely found so fully, is the discussion of Quaker attitudes to subjects whether of the curriculum or of leisure time. Many of these quotations come from the British Friends Educational Society. The Quaker Tory brothers, Joshua, Isaac, and John Knight, sons of an older Isaac Knight (died 1750), are the subject of substantial research by Ellwood C. Parry, Jr., writing on "Treason in Abington" in the Old York Road Historical Society BuUelin, XXVIII (1967), 10-25. Two of them fled to New Brunswick, Canada, losing their lands in Montgomery Township. The story of vicissitudes of their property is traced through the records and correspondence. Norman MacGregor, himself an American Friend of Scottish background, published in 1967 a sixteen-page pamphlet, The Quakers of Scotland: a Report to American Friends. Naturally he used extensively G. B. Burnet's Story ofQuakerism in Scotland, but he has skillfully summarized the ups and downs over the years of this ancient but always small group in the Society, including recent signs of renewal as a favorable omen for small American meetings. The Making of Sensible Men by James M. Read (The Newcomen Society in North America, 1967, 24 pages) is an address by the President of Wilmington College, dealing with the history and ideals of that Quaker College, now printed in pamphlet form. An illustrated article on "John Aston Warder—First President of the American Forestry Association" is published in the organ of that association, American Forests, LXXIII (1967), 10-13, 66, 68. Born in 1812 in Philadelphia in the Quaker family of Jeremiah Warder, a graduate in 1836 of Jefferson Medical College, he practiced medicine until 1855 having removed to Ohio where until his...