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The United States versus PringleBulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Fourth Month (April),1913), p. 31Published by: Friends Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41944936 .

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BOOKS OF INTEREST TO FRIENDS. 31

The Whittier Fellowship Guest House. Being an Account of the Young Friends' Conference from the Fourth of the Seventh Month to the Eleventh of the same, 1912, at Hampton Falls in New Hampshire. Philadelphia, Printed for the Fellowship Committee by the Biddle Press, Twelfth Month, 191 2, pp. 71, illustrated. To be had of Horace M. Lippincott, 704 Hale Building, Philadelphia. 50 cents.

This very attractive little book tells all about the Young Friends' Conference, and also gives papers read upon Peace, Social Service, Worship, etc., etc. It is a valuable contribution to the literature of present-day active Quakerism. The eleven illustrations of scenes at and near Hampton Falls, are unusually good.

The United States versus Pringle. Atlantic Monthly, February, 1913. Boston : The Atlantic Monthly Company, pp. 18. 35 cents.

The paper with this rather curious title is the diary of Cyrus Guern- sey Pringle of Vermont, a Friend who, "on July 13, 1863, in company with two fellow Quakers of Charlotte, Vermont, was drafted for service in the Union Army." Through conscientious scruples the young men would not bear arms, or allow of substitutes. Cyrus Pringle died not long ago, and the diary is now given to the public.

The story of their trials, imprisonments, and sufferings is told with simplicity and force. In the end President Lincoln released the young men on parole. The account well deserves reading.

History of English Nonconformity. By Henry W. Clark. Vol. II. From the Restoration to the Close of the Nineteenth Century. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1913. 8vo. Pp. xx, 458. 15/.

The first volume of this important work was published in 191 1, and was briefly noticed in the Bulletin for Third month, 1912. As in the first volume, the attitude of the author in the second volume is discrim- inating and sympathetic. His account of Quakerism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is very suggestive. A curious slip is made in a note on the Wilbur Controversy, where he speaks of John Wilbur " leading those who stood by Gurney." P. 366, note.

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