TH E Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
JULY 1957
WILLIAM BIRCH: HIS "COUNTRY SEATS OF THE UNITED STATES" Martin P. Snyder 225
JAMES BUCHANAN AND PUBLIC OFFICE: AN APPRAISAL Robert E. Carlson 255
HENRY C. CAREY AND THE REPUBLICAN TARIFF
Arthur M. Lee 280
GIFFORD PINCHOT'S 1914 CAMPAIGN M. Nelson McGeary 303
BOOK REVIEWS 319
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VOLUME LXXXI NUMBER 3 BOOK REVIEWS PAGE PEARE, William Penn, A Biography, by Henry J. Cadbury 319 TOLLES, James Logan and the Culture of Provincial America, by Paul A. W. Wallace 320 WOLF and WHITEMAN, The history of the Jews in Philadelphia from Colonial times to the Age of Jackson, by Frederick B. Tolles 322 GRAHAM, Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707-1783, by Guy S. Klett 324 MILLER, Errand into the Wilderness, by Carl Bridenbaugh 325 CHAMBERS, Old Bullion Benton, Senator from the New West: Thomas Hart Benton, 1782-1858, by John A. Munroe 326 BRUCHEY, Robert Oliver, Merchant of Baltimore, 1783-1819, by Thomas P. Govan 328 CHARLES, The Origin of the American Party System: Three Essays, by Roy F. Nichols 329 PORTER and JOHNSON, comps., National Party Platforms, 1840-1956, by Richard P. McCormick 330 SPAHR, Occasional Addresses, by Nicholas B. Wainwright 331 STERN, Imprints on History: Book Publishers and American Frontiers, by Willard Thorp 332 MILLER, The Raven and the Whale. The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville, by James F. Beard, Jr. 333 RICE and STEINMETZ, The Amish Year, by John A. Hostetler 334 HUSSEY, From Merchants to "Colour Men.” Five Generations of Samuel Wetherill's White Lead Business, by Harold F. Williamson 335 Philadelphia Scrapple. Whimsical Bits Anent Eccentrics & the City's Oddities, by Paul Jones 337 RIGHTMYER, Maryland's Established Church, by Caroline Robbins 339 KIRKLAND, Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860-1900, by Ralph W. Hidy 340 CORNISH, The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865, by Frederick M. Binder 341 DUNLAP, Dutch and Swedish Place-Names in Delaware 343 PACKARD AND GREIM, Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital From its first Rise to the Beginning of the Year 1938 . . . with a Continuation of the Account to the Year 1956. 343
THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY is published each quarter in January, April, July and October by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia 7. Yearly subscription, $3.75; single numbers, $1.25. Communi- cations should be addressed to the Editor. The Editors do not assume responsibility for state- ments of fact or of opinion made by contributors. Entered as second-class matter March 1, 1889, at the Post Office at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, under act of March 3, 1879. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
VOLUME LXXXI July, 1957 NO. 3
EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Publications Committee
ROY F. NICHOLS BOIES PENROSE CONYERS READ FREDERICK B. TOLLES R NORRIS WILLIAMS, 2ND
Editor NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT
Associate Editor LOIS V. GIVEN Contributors
MARTIN P. SNYDER, a Philadelphia lawyer, has made a study of the major series of Philadelphia views. Two of his articles on this subject have been published in the MAGAZINE, one dealing with William Birch, the other with J. C. Wild, the lithographer.
ROBERT E. CARLSON is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. His paper on Buchanan was read before the Pennsylvania Historical Association last year, and was developed from his research into Buchanan's 1856 political campaign in Western Pennsylvania.
ARTHUR M. LEE is Professor of History and Head of the Social Studies Department at Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Arizona. He received his doctorate in history from Syracuse University in 1953.
M. NELSON MCGEARY is Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of several books and co- author of a textbook on Pennsylvania government published in 1950. At present he is writing a political biography of Gifford Pinchot.
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