Part 21 (1/2)
Malone, Kemp. ”Benjamin Franklin on Spelling Reform,” _American Speech_, I, 96-100 (Nov., 1925). (Franklin was the ”first American to tackle English phonetics scientifically.”)
Mason, W. S. ”Franklin and Galloway: Some Unpublished Letters,”
_Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, N. S. x.x.xIV, 227-58 (Oct., 1924). (Significant sidelights cast on ”the problems of Pennsylvania colonial history from 1757 to 1760.” Excellent summary of Franklin's and Galloway's victory over the Proprietors. Mr. Mason's collection includes many valuable letters [Franklin-Galloway] between 1757 and 1772, not published in Smyth.)
Mathews, Mrs. L. K. ”Benjamin Franklin's Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750-1775,” _American Political Science Review_, VIII, 393-412 (Aug., 1914).
Melville, Herman. _Israel Potter._ London: 1923. (Graphic intuitive portrait of Franklin: he lives as a ”household Plato,” ”a practical Magian in linsey-woolsey,” a ”didactically waggish,” prudent courtier who ”was everything but a poet.”)
_Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, de l'Academie Francaise, sur le dixhuitieme siecle et sur la Revolution._ 2 vols. Paris: 1821.
(Especially II, 286-311. Franklin viewed as very emblem of Liberty.)
Montgomery, T. H. _A History of the University of Pennsylvania from Its Foundation to A. D. 1770._ Philadelphia: 1900.
_Monthly Review; or Literary Journal: By Several Hands._ London: 1770.
XLII, 199-210, 298-308. (”The experiments and observations of Dr.
Franklin const.i.tute the _principia_ of electricity, and form the basis of a system equally simple and profound.”)
*More, P. E. ”Benjamin Franklin,” in _Shelburne Essays_, Fourth Series.
New York: 1906, pp. 129-55. (Provocative appraisal: stresses Franklin's ”contemporaneity,” his tendency to be oblivious to the past--a suggestive, if a moot point.)
Morgan, W. _Memoirs of the Life of Rev. Richard Price._ London: 1815.
(Notes on Franklin's relations with Price during early 1760's; meetings at Royal Society and London Coffee-house.)
Mottay, F. _Benjamin Franklin et la philosophie pratique._ Paris: 1886.
(Good model for citizens of a free nation and ”le veritable catechisme de l'homme vertueux.” Also several just remarks on his style which possesses ”les mots epiques d'un Corneille et les elegantes periphrases d'un Racine.”)
Moulton, C. W., ed. _Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors_. Buffalo, N. Y.: 1901. IV, 79-106. (Stimulating a.s.sembly of extracts which aids student in discovering the history of Franklin's reputation.)
Mustard, W. P. ”Poor Richard's Poetry,” _Nation_, Lx.x.xII, 239, 279 (March 22, April 5, 1906). (Indicates Franklin's borrowings from Dryden, Pope, Prior, Gay, Swift, and others.)
Nichols, E. L. ”Franklin as a Man of Science,” _Independent_, LX, 79-84 (Jan. 11, 1906). (Franklin's mind ”turned ever by preference to the utilitarian and away from the theoretical and speculative aspects of things.”)
”Notice sur Benjamin Franklin,” in _uvres posthumes de Cabanis_.
Paris: 1825, pp. 219-74. (Representative in its rapturous eulogy.)
Oberholtzer, E. P. _The Literary History of Philadelphia._ Philadelphia: 1906. (Chap. II, ”The Age of Franklin,” written with conservative bias, belabors Franklin who as a statesman ”was almost as wrong as Paine and Mirabeau.” What Voltaire was to France, Franklin was to his native city and state.)
Oswald, J. C. _Benjamin Franklin in Oil and Bronze._ New York: 1926.
(”Probably the features and form of no man who ever lived were delineated so frequently and in such a variety of ways as were those of Benjamin Franklin.” Best survey of its kind, including many excellent reproductions.)
Oswald, J. C. _Benjamin Franklin, Printer._ Garden City, N. Y.: 1917.
(Fullest and ablest account of this phase of Franklin's life.)
Owen, E. D. ”Where Did Benjamin Franklin Get the Idea for His Academy?”
_Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_, LVIII, 86-94 (Jan., 1934). (Inconclusive evidence attributing it to Dr. Philip Doddridge.)
*Parker, Theodore. ”Benjamin Franklin,” in _Historic Americans_. Ed.