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 310 SHORT NOTICES AprU in the profits. In addition to his wages, Herbert made more money by granting licences to musicians and keepers of miscellaneous shows, as well as by granting dispensations for performances in Lent. We are, therefore, not surprised to read in the pages of his brother's Autobiography that he * attained to a great fortune ' and ' became dexterous in the ways of the Court, as having gotten much by it ' ; nor, again, that his last years were embittered by increasing opposition to his exactions. Mr. Adams's admirable book contains a portrait of Sir Henry, a facsimile of his signed licence from a manuscript of a play of Massinger's, and an index. He is perhaps not aware that a second volume of M. Feuillerat's Documents was issued by the Louvain printing-house immediately before the outbreak of war — which was so soon followed by the burning of the printing house and its contents. On p. 10, in the extract from Chalmers, • Oxford ' should surely be * Orford '. G. C. M. S. The pious industry of the Quaker historian finds expression in Dr. T. Sharpless's Political Leaders of Provincial Pennsylvania (New York : Macmillan, 1919). If we cannot altogether agree with the publishers' claim that ' taken together the sketches constitute a com- prehensive story of the Quaker colony ', we may freely admit that the accounts of the two Lloyds, of James Logan, John Kinsey, Isaac Norris. and James Pemberton break new ground for the ordinary reader. William Penn and John Dickinson played more leading parts in American history ; and the essays devoted to them are, therefore, of somewhat less interest ; though in the one on Dickinson Dr. Sharpless has been able to prove by contemporary letters the fact, long in doubt, that Dickinson was not at any time a regular member of the Society of Friends. H. E. E. In The French Refugees at the Cape (Cape Town : The Cape Times, 1919) Mr. Colin Graham Botha, of the Cape Archives, gives a careful accoimt of the arrival of the refugees and their settlement. The earlier part of the book, after a sketch of the colony as it was at the end of the seventeenth century, deals with their fortimes and treatment by the local government and by the administration of the East India Company in the Netherlands (the Seventeen). The latter part consists of lists of settlers with biographi- cal notes and reprints of registers and other documents. Of the list the author remarks, ' None but those who have undertaken the task of framing such a list can appreciate the laboiu* expended. Every conceivable class of record which might throw some light on the inquiry was examined.' The remark is evidently justified, and the whole book shows every sign of careful and elaborate research. As dealing with what the author calls one of the most important and interesting episodes in the history of South Africa it possesses a general interest, while to those who have a local and personal interest in the subject it should be of very great value. H. L. There is much that is interesting in Mr. Septimus Rivington's The Publishing Family of Rivington (London : Rivington, 1919). This