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.XNAGsTAFF ,s HISTORY OF THE

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wv QUAKERS.--A History of the society of
Friends, complied from its standard records, aud
other authentic sources, iy w r.. Wagstaf, NJ II.
Ono handsome volume, vo SO 90.
" TINS seems to us t0 bcsa work of decided value
and of greatest interest, not only 10 pro'essedy
theological students, but to aIls-who wish to ac-
quaint themselves with the progress of peculiar
principles, or the growth of the peculiar scots. IN
this excellent work he has given very full and very
interesting biogr aphical sketches of all the men
who we're active in establishing, or who have made
lustrious the character and history of the Society
Inc work exhibits n close acquaintance with his
subject, and careful industry in examining
thcnuc records concerning it, and is written in a
style which must attract and reward attcntion."-,
W Y COu Ter.
d''rhis book is ono that was much needed. and IL
viii do good. The introduction is very perspic
nous history of Chri.tianity prior TO the time Of
George Fox; and il brings down the history of the
Society of Friends in England from its origin to
the year l536. The work viii prove very attract
I've and popular, and We confidently recon
mend 1t to all classes, for they will find in ii the
history of prosecuted goodness, plainly and char
table told, in all the simplicity of Pailad
"It is something singular, that almost every wri
ter belonging to the ,cicty of Friends is rcmarka
bic for vcrbosty, while the members of the society,
in their oral communications, exhibit great sim
plicity and hrevty of speech. This fault of their
writer's necessarily confines their pubca tons to
select few by whom patience is esteemed a vir-
tue. DIR. Wagstaff has juclciously departed from
the established rule, aud given us valuable his.
toroal matter written in readable and pleasant
styie"--N Y. Post.
''The author has attempted to consolidate tho va
rious histories of Friends, and present them in sim
pie hut approved language dvcsted of quantess
and circnmocution. and in that he has enninently
succeeded. This volume will be found deeply in
tcrcsng, not only 10 The members ofthe Society of
Friends, but to all readers - u. s. Gazette.
The object of the author is TO furnish com
pendious aud modern work, in order that the his.
tory OF the Society may be known without The
ccssitv of searching records unadaptcd to general
reading, either from their quaintncss their
tosity ofstylc To this he has consulted the stand
ard historians and primitive members OF the Soce-
land has produced work which will no doubt
find favor with the public The present volume
commences with the year $50, and extends to 1886
1t Is the design of the author to prepare shortly
another volume containing full account of the
privatons endured by the Society in American
Bali. dm
1.-The work of DR.. Wagstaf mains the most
satisfactory and interesting exposition of the rise
and progress of the Society of Friends, and of the
doctrines which they hold, that we have road.
The facts detailed in the volume before de-
rived from the most authentic sotrcCsthe standard
historians and primitive members of the Society,"
--Jownatof Commerce.
HThis work has already attained vast amount
of credit, and seems to be rightly valued by those
who have tested its merits. "-.dnerica,t Republican.
June G.. HALL & CO.