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MAGISTRATES HISTORY OF THE

w QUAkERS.-A History of the society
Friends, compiled from it's standard records, ant.
other authentic sources. by w. II. WagstafF NJ. u.
One handsome volume, s vo. So 90.
This seems to us To be work of decided value
and OF greatest interest, not only to pro:Csscdly
theological students, but to ali who wish to
quaint themselves with the progress of peculiar
principles, or the growth of the peculiar sccts In
this excellent work he has given very full and very
interesting Biographical sketches of all the men
who were active in establishing or who have made
lustrous the character and history of the Society.
The work exhibits "a close aCquain lance with his
subject, and n careful industry in examining au-
thcnuc records concerning it, and is written in
style which must attract and reward attention.
N Y. Courier.
"This book is one that was much needed; and il
Will do good. The introduction is u very perspic
nous history of Christianity prior to the time %.
George Fox; and it brings down the history of the
Society OF Friends in England from its origin to
the year 1916. The work will prove very attract
i've and popular, and can confidently recon.
mend ii to all classes, for they will find in il the
history OF prosecuted goodness, plainly and char
liable told in all the simplicity of truth Philad
Inquire.
at is something sin guar, that almost every wri.
ter belonging to the Society of Friends is rcmarka
BILE for verbosty, while the members of the society,
IN their oral communications. exhibit great sim
plicity and brevty of speech This fault of their
writers necessarily confines their pubica tons to n
select few by whom patience is esteemed n vir-
tue. Dr. Wagstaff has judiciously departed from
the established rule, and given us valuable his.
torical matter written in a readable and pleasant
style."-N. Y. Post
The author has attempted to consolidate the
rious histories of Friends, and present them in sim
pie but approved language Invested of quaintcss
and circunlocution, and in that he has eminently
succeeded This volume will be found deeply in
crcsting, not only to The members of the Society of
Friends, but TO all readcrs."-- IT, S. Gazette.
1.-The object of the author is to furnish com
pcndious and modern work, in order that the his.
tory of the Society may be known without the nc
ccssity of searching records unadapted to general
reading either from their quantncss or their ver-
hositv of style To this he has consulted the stand
ard historians and primitive members of the Soce-
ty, and has produced work which will no doubt
find favor with the public The present volume
commence with the year 1886, and extends to 1886
1t is the design of the author to prepare shortly
another volume, containing a full account of the
privations endured by the Society in American
Bait. DIN
"The work of Dr. Wagstaff contains 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 ever read
The facts detailed in the volume before us are de-
rived from the most authentic sourccs-the standard
historians and primitive members of the Society"
-JOmndi0f Commerce.
'This work has already attained vast amount
of credit, and seems to be rightly valued by those
who have tested its cris."-Americnn Republican,
June G.. HALL & CO.