passing notice in a single chapter. Two chapters are given to Friends' policy re land purchase, rum, slavery, and militarism. The discussion of slavery is good. Otherwise nothing is added to what Sharpless and others have already given. The remaining portion of the volume sketches the institutional work at Tunesassa and other parts of New York state, in Maine, western Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Such a large field has been covered that compressed details become bewildering

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... repetitious. By reading between the lines one may gather an impression of what are the distinctive features of Quaker missionary enterprise. One also learns how it came about that President Grant invited the Quakers to administer his "peace policy" among the Indians. One could wish that more had been written about its actual workings and the causes of its disuse. The writer reveals a fine grasp of the literature of his field. The bibliographies attached to each chapter are excellent. The modesty with which achievements are recorded is characteristically Quaker.