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RECENT BOOKS. REVISION OF THE GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF THE SCHWENKFELDERS. Under the Direction of The Board of Publication of the Schwenkfelder Church, 611 Reformed Church Building, Philadelphia. A new revised edition of the Genealogy of the Schwenkfelders, edited by Samuel Kriebel Brecht, A. M., will be published in the fall of 1921. Amongst other features, this revised edition will contain a faa simile reproduction of the signatures of the immigrant Schwenkfelders to the Oath of Allegiance, as well as the location of the original home¬ steads and burial places of as many of the immigrant Schwenkfelders who came to Pennsylvania between 1731 and 1737 as have thus far been located. The records of more than 15,000 families will be in¬ cluded in this new book, together with biographical and historical) sketches of the achievements of the Schwenkfelders and their descend¬ ants. A valuable contribution to the history of this people. THE MORTONS AND THEIR KIN. A genealogy and a Source Book. By Daniel Morton, M. D., F.A.C.S., St. Joseph, Missouri 1920. Compiled between the years 1880 and 1920 and assembled in two typewritten volumes, Volume One being the Mortons, and Volume Two being The Morton Kin. A collection of genealogical material from original sources relating to the Morton family of Virginia and especially to John Morton and his descendants, together with a great amount of data concerning the following families kin to the Mortons : I. Ashton, 2, Banks, 3. Batchelor, 4. Barner, 5. Beale, 6. Beckwith, 7. Bellfield, 8. Blanchan, 9. Bottomley, 10. Bos, 11. Caldwell, 12. Cocke, 13. Cooke, 14. Colhoun, 15. Colston, 16. Davis, 17. Dinwiddie, 18. DuBois, 19. Edwards, 20. Eltinge, 21. Gregory, 22. Haden, 23. Hawkins, 24. Hite, 25. Johnson, 26. Jorrissen, 27. Lane, 28. Means, 29, Meriwether, 30. Mothershead, 31. Mount joy, 32. Pannill, 33. Payne, 34. Perrin, 35. Pryor, 36. Royall, 37. Slecht, 38. Smith, 39. Tarpley, 40.J£errell, 41. Thornton, 42. Van Meter, 43. Wood. There are hundreds of other surnames of interest to persons studying family history connected with Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. All of which has been assembled from court records, county records, legal papers, bible records, family records, historical papers, letters, biographical sketches, funeral orations and other sources. A family tree sets out the ancestry of the author, and, of course, serves the same purpose for all descendants of this line of Mortons and their kin. There are eight hundred typewritten letter-size pages bound in two volumes of four hundred pages each. Only three copies of the work have been made, each copy being a set of two volumes. One set (108) I •4 i i Recent Books. 109 has been placed in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., one set in the Newberry Library at Chicago, Illinois, and, at the death of the author, one set will be placed in the Public Library at Kansas City. It is hoped that these records may be thus preserved against destruction, and, as far as possible, made available for every one interested in the family histories herein set forth. The records embraced in this compilation have been collected by Mr. Morton at great expense and labor, and embrace a vast amount of genealogical material never before assembled or made available tostudents of family history. It lias been his endeavor to place the three copies of the work where each will be accessible to the largest number. IN OLD PENNSYLVANIA TOWNS. By Anna Hollingsworth Wharton. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1920, 352 p. 32 illus. 8°. Miss Wharton, whose books on Colonial times and ways are ever a delight to the reader, here presents in a series of delightful chronicles, the picturesque side of many Pennsylvania villages and towns. Lan¬ caster, Bethlehem, Columbia, York, Chambersburg, Shippensburg, Car¬ lisle, Harrisburg, Bedford, Sunbury, Wilkes-Barre, Washington, Pitts¬ burgh, Allentown and Chester are among those treated of. Interesting stories and miniature sketches are given of many iof the well-known people who walked along their quiet streets and lived their more or less eventful lives in the many-windowed fine old homes with the hos¬ pitable door-ways. The quaint charm of the every-day life of the Moravians and Dunkards has here a place. The social life of the aristocratic circles of the inland towns is well emphasized and the academic and professional worthies are handled with literary skill. The volume is indeed a valuable addition to the literature of men and women, manners, customs and the social life of earlier days and is replete with entertaining information. It has an unusually good index. JONES WISTER’S REMINISCENCES, J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila¬ delphia, 1920, 459 p. 16 illus. 8°. For private circulation. Mr. Wister’s book of contemporaneous Pennsylvania and Pennsylvan¬ ians is a delight alike for those who knew the author and those who) knew him not. His reminiscences embrace a long period of time. They cover, in part, the good old days when Germantown and its surroundings were practically surburban farms and the streams which are now culverts were fishing grounds for the neighborhood; when Philadelphia waa younger and cricket was new. He touches interestingly on the histories of various well known, clubs and social organizations; on the Civil War and what was done by the men one knew intimately, or knew of, in those perilous days when Pennsylvania was invaded and Gettysburg saved ; on the iron industry and the vicissitudes and successes of several furnaces near Harrisburg. In later years the author travelled widely andi his impressions and descriptions of his wanderings in strange lands are 110 Recent Books. unusual and carry the reader along from place to place with the sense of companionship. Considerable is said of the noble game of cricket; Mr. Wister and his five sturdy brothers being the fathers of American Cricket. As another cricketer has said, i ( We do well to honor their memory, for theirs was a good work, and the world is better for it.” So can it be said of Mr Wister ’s book, the reading public of Philadelphia, his Philadelphia, is the better for it. PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION, Annual Pro¬ ceedings of, 1919-1920, Philadelphia, 1920, 101 p., por., 8.° This Year Book of the Society contains the usual lists of founders, current officers, managers, delegates, standing committees and Color1 Guard; the proceedings of the thirty-second annual meeting with brief obituaries of forty-one members who deceased during -the year, April 1919 to April 1920. A short History of the Color Guard, by William Leverett, concludes the number. THE STORY OF THE HUGUENOTS, as contained in two addresses made before the Huguenot Societies of South Carolina and Pennsylvania, by Henry A. diu Pont. Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. Plrivaitely printed. Octavo, boards, pp. 62. Copyrighted, 1920. At the moment when so much proper attention is being paid to the Pilgrim Ter-Centenary, it seems signally opportune that there should be presented, by Col. du Pont, this little volume in which is set forth in concise form all of the essential facts that led up to the Huguenot immigration to the Colonies. By this exodus from Europe, this country gained groups of settlers from whom have sprang many who have loomed large in upholding the best traditions of the land of their adoption.