Recent Books

RECENT BOOKS. THE TRUE LAFAYETTE. By George Morgan, author of John Littlejohn of J., The Issue, The True Patrick Henry, etc. Philadelphia, 1919. 489 p., 26 illustrations, 8°. All whose hearts quicken at the thought of heroic deeds done in free¬ dom’s cause will follow with intense interest this story of LaPayette and of his chivalrous aid to the sore-pressed American Colonies in the Bevolutionary struggle, his part in bringing about the Franco-American Alliance. General Pershing’s quiet speech at the quiet tomb at Picpus meant not only, “LAFAYETTE, WE ARE HERE” two million of America’s manhood ready to pay their country ’s debt to France but that, all Amer¬ ica uncovered in reverence to the Great Liberator’s great creed, embodied in one word, Liberty, and to the man of two worlds, two ages, two civil¬ isations, that of 1’aneien regime and the latter-day democracy. Once more in the world’s history LaPayette ’s name is one to conjure with and this story of his life is a complete story completely told, and will be a factor in the general Americanization of the present and future generation. — — THE ORIGIN OF CARPENTER'S HALL, PHILADELPHIA, WITH INCIDENTS By Charles J. Cohen. Printed in Proceedings of The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, 1919. 123166 p. 13 illustrations. OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE DE COURCY’S OF MY LORD’S GIFT, CHESTON AND COURCY-UPONWYE, QUEEN ANNE COUNTY, MARYLAND. A Maryland Family’s Claim to the Title and Estates of Kingsale and a place in the Irish Peerage. By Thomas Hamilton Hoge Patterson. Manuscript, 1919. 3 -j- 14 -)- 5 p-, sm. 4°. “The claim of the Be Courcys of My Lord’s Gift and Cheston to tho titles and estates of the old Anglo-Norman barony of Courcy and Kings¬ ale, has never been tested by a judicial or by a parliamentary investiga¬ tion, ” says Bavis in his Day Star of American Freedom, or the Birth and Early Growth of Toleration in the Province of Maryland, New York, 1855. “But,” he continues, “the daughters of Gerald, the baron who died in the middle of the eighteenth century, expressed the opinion that a member of the family at Cheston was clearly entitled; and said their impression had been derived from their own father, before the period of his alleged insanity or the date of his will, in which he selected Myles Courcy of Rhode Island as the successor.” It was early recognized in Maryland that Henry Be Courcy of “My Lord ’s Gift, ’’ etc., and his brother John Be Courcy, had occupied high social position in Ireland. Mr. Patterson ’s interesting compilation, trac¬ ing the succession to the representatives of the former, gives a parallel to (287) 288 ■ Recent Books. the famous Tiehborn ease. A copy of this work is in the Collections of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF JEREMIAH CLARKE OF RHODE ISLAND. By Alfred Rutlulph Justice. Printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January, 1919. This valuable monograph on the ancestry of an early settler of New¬ port, Rhode Island, and the progenitor of many distinguished Pennsyl¬ vanians, covers one of the most important connections made in recent years between an early New England settler and his kin across the sea. PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION, Annual Proceed* ings of, 1918-1919. Philadelphia, 1919. 116 p., por., 8°. This Tear Book of the Society contains the usual lists of founders, officers, managers, delegates, standing committees and Color Guard, the proceedings of the thirty-first annual meeting, obituations of deceased members, with addresses by Major Robert L. Denig, U. S. M. C. ; Cap¬ tain Robert J. McFetridge, Chaplain, 108 Field Artillery, and the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, Jr., D.D., the latter at the Reception given by this Society to Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in November, 1918. The thirtieth annual sermon preached before the Society, on December 15, 1918, by the Rev. Henry Martya Medary, is also included. WAR SERVICE OF MEMBERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY SONS OF THE REVOLUTION, 1917-1919. Philadelphia, 1919. 32 p. -f- 1, 8° This service record in the World War was tabulated with great care under the direction of Clement Biddle, Commander, Medical Corps, U. S. N., retired, Major William Innes Forbes, Major Joseph Allison Steinmetz, and Oliver Hopkinson Baird. A future edition to cover possible errors and omissions is promised by the Committee.