THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
OCTOBER I964
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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
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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.
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