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Sonneck, O. G. ”Benjamin Franklin's Relation to Music,” _Music_, XIX, 1-14 (Nov., 1900).

Steell, Willis. _Benjamin Franklin of Paris, 1776-1785._ New York: 1928.

(An undoc.u.mented, partly imaginative, popular account.)

Stifler, J. M. _The Religion of Benjamin Franklin._ New York: 1925.

(Popular survey. Warm appreciation of Franklin's _penchant_ for projects of a humanitarian sort.)

Stuber, Henry. ”Life of Franklin” [a biography meant as a continuation of Franklin's _Autobiography_], in _Columbian Magazine and Universal Asylum_, May, July, September, October, November, 1790, and February, March, May, June, 1791.

*Thorpe, F. N., ed. _Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania._ U. S. Bureau of Education, Circular of Information, No.

2 (1892). Was.h.i.+ngton: 1893. (See especially chapters I, II, written by Thorpe, which deal particularly with Franklin's ideas of self and formal education.)

t.i.tus, Rev. Anson. ”Boston When Ben Franklin Was a Boy,” _Proceedings of the Bostonian Society_, pp. 55-72 (1906). (Brief suggestive view of the climate of opinion with regard to inoculation, Newtonianism, and Lockian sensationalism.)

Trent, W. P. ”Benjamin Franklin,” _McClure's Magazine_, VIII, 273-7 (Jan., 1897). (”The most complete representative of his century that any nation can point to.” Franklin ”thoroughly represents his age in its practicality, in its devotion to science, in its intellectual curiosity, in its humanitarianism, in its lack of spirituality, in its calm self-content--in short, in its exaltation of prose and reason over poetry and faith.” An enthusiastic and wise account.)

Trowbridge, John. ”Franklin as a Scientist,” _Publications of the Colonial Society of Ma.s.sachusetts_, XVIII (1917). (Excellent appreciation of Franklin's capacity for inductive reasoning.)

Tuckerman, H. T. ”Character of Franklin,” _North American Review_, Lx.x.xIII, 402-22 (Oct., 1856). (Praises disinterestedness of Franklin as a scientist, as ”one whom Bacon would have hailed as a disciple,”

although he ”is not adapted to beguile us 'along the line of infinite desires.'”)

Tudury, M. ”Poor Richard,” _Bookman_, LXIV, 581-4 (Jan., 1927). (Popular glance at ”cynical patriarch of American letters.”)

_Typothetae Bulletin_, XXII, No. 15 (Jan. 11, 1926). (Issue devoted to the printer Franklin.)

Vicq d'Azyr, Felix. _eloge de Franklin._ N.p.: 1791.

Victory, Beatrice M. _Benjamin Franklin and Germany._ Americana Germanica series, No. 21. Press of the University of Pennsylvania: 1915. (Sources reflecting Franklin's reputation in Germany of particular interest.)

Walsh, C. M. ”Franklin and Plato,” _Open Court_, XX, 129-33 (March, 1906). (An attempt to interpret his _Articles of Belief_, 1728, in terms of the _Timaeus_, _Protagoras_, _Republic_, and _Euthyphro_.)

Webster, Noah. _Dissertations on the English Language: With Notes, Historical and Critical. To which is added, By Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Dr. Franklins Arguments on that Subject._ Boston: 1789. (Notable remarks on Franklin's perspicuous and correct style which is ”plain and elegantly neat”: he ”writes for the child as well as the philosopher.”)

Wendell, Barrett. _A Literary History of America._ New York: 1900.

(Franklin estimate, pp. 92-103.)

Wetzel, W. A. _Benjamin Franklin as an Economist._ Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Thirteenth Series, IX, 421-76. Baltimore: 1895. (Useful summary, but superseded by Carey's _Franklin's Economic Views_.)

Wharton, A. H. ”The American Philosophical Society,” _Atlantic Monthly_, LXI, 611-24 (May, 1888).

Bibliographical suggestions relating to Franklin's American friends and contemporaries will be found following the brief but scholarly studies in the _Dictionary of American Biography_. Of these see especially John Adams (also G. Chinard, _Honest John Adams_, Boston, 1933); Samuel Adams; Ethan Allen; Nathaniel Ames; Joel Barlow (also V. C. Miller, _Joel Barlow: Revolutionist, London, 1791-92_, Hamburg, 1932, and T. A.

Zunder, _Early Days of Joel Barlow_, New Haven, 1934); John Bartram; William Bartram (also N. f.a.gin, _William Bartram_, Baltimore, 1933); Hugh H. Brackenridge (also C. Newlin, _Brackenridge_, Princeton, 1933); Cadwallader Colden; John d.i.c.kinson; Philip Freneau; Francis Hopkinson; T. Jefferson; Cotton Mather; Jonathan Mayhew; Thomas Paine; David Rittenhouse; Dr. Benjamin Rush (also N. Goodman, _Rush_, Philadelphia, 1934); Rev. William Smith; Ezra Stiles; John Trumbull; Noah Webster.

V. THE AGE OF FRANKLIN

Adams, J. T. _Provincial Society, 1690-1763._ (Volume III of _A History of American Life_, ed. Fox and Schlesinger.) New York: 1927.

(Contains useful ”Critical Essay on Authorities” consulted, pp.

324-56, which serves as a guide for further study of many phases of the social history of the period.)

Adams, R. G. _Political Ideas of the American Revolution._ Durham, N.