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Pennsylvania Magazine of HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY OCTOBER I964 JOSEPH SANSOM, PHILADELPHIA SILHOUETTIST Charles Coleman Sellers 395 ANDREW CARNEGIE, AUTHOR John E. Higgins 439 THE DIARY OF SIDNEY GEORGE FISHER, 1863 456 BOOK REVIEWS 485 PUBLISHED SINCE 1877 BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUME LXXXVIII NUMBER 4 BOOK REVIEWS PAGE SMITH, The Historian and History, by Caroline Robbins 485 HOPKINS, ed., Concise Dictionary of American Biography, by Harry M. Tinkcom 486 PECKHAM, The Colonial Wars, 1689-1762, by William A. Hunter 488 DURNBAUGH and SCHULTZ, A Brethren Bibliography, 1713-1963, by John Joseph Stoudt 489 HAMILTON, ed., Adventure in the Wilderness. The American Journals of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, 1756-1760, by Donald H. Kent 490 CHAPIN, The American Law of Treason. Revolutionary and Early National Origins, by John M. Coleman 492 ROSSITER, Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution, by Thomas P. Govan 494 DAVIS, Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830, by Ralph L. Ketcham 495 MERRENS, Colonial North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century. A Study in Historical Geography, by James T. Lemon 497 BROWN, The Republic in Peril: 1812, by S. W. Higginbotham 498 HOPKINS, ed., The Papers of Henry Clay, Vols. II and III, by Thomas P. Govan 500 KASER, Joseph Charless, Printer in the Western Country, by Edwin Wolf 2nd 501 EATON, The Mind of the Old South, by Carl N. Degler 502 WILLIAMS, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist of the Sea, by John Cadwalader 504 GLAD, McKinley, Bryan, and the People, by John W. Huston 506 BAUER, Doctors Made in America, by Irwin Richman 507 Winterthur Portfolio One, 1964, by Nicholas B. Wainwright 508 SMITH, The Battle of Monmouth, by Lois V. Given 509 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, Pa. 19107. Yearly subscription, $5.00; single numbers $1.50. Communications should be addressed to the Editors. The Editors do not assume responsibility for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME LXXXVIII October, 1964 NO. 4 EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION Publications Committee ROY F. NICHOLS THOMAS C. COCHRAN FREDERICK B. TOLLES R. N. WILLIAMS, 2ND NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Editors NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT LOIS V. GIVEN Contributors CHARLES COLEMAN SELLERS, Librarian at Dickinson College, is a distinguished art historian. He is the authority on the career and work of Charles Willson Peale, and in 1962 published Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture. He has written numerous articles and pamphlets, and has been a contributor to this MAGAZINE. JOHN E. HIGGINS is an Assistant Professor of History at Long Beach State College. His special interest is in post-Civil War social and intellectual history. He has published articles in several his- torical journals and in the Encyclopedia Americana. PRINTED IN U. S. A. by The Winchell Company, PHILADELPHIA, PA..
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