Part 24 (1/2)

Monaghan, Frank. _John Jay, Defender of Liberty._ New York: 1935. (A brilliant biography and a fully doc.u.mented study of the activities and diplomacy of the Continental Congress. Supplements S. F. Bemis; see above.)

Moore, C. A. ”Shaftesbury and the Ethical Poets in England, 1700-1760,”

_Publications of the Modern Language a.s.sociation_, x.x.xI (N. S. XXIV), 264-325 (June, 1916). (Penetrating and brilliant survey of the growth of altruism, to be supplemented by R. S. Crane's studies of earlier sources.)

Morais, H. M. _Deism in Eighteenth Century America._ New York: 1934. (If little s.p.a.ce is given to the implications of Deism in terms of political, economic, and literary theory, and if the leaders of deistic thought, such as Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine are too lightly dealt with, this work is ”substantial, precise, well-doc.u.mented, modest, cautious, and objective.” Has a good bibliography. Reviewed by H. H. Clark, _American Literature_, VI, 467-9, Jan., 1935. See also Morais's ”Deism in Revolutionary America, 1763-89,” _International Journal of Ethics_, XLII, 434-53, July, 1932.)

Morley, John. _Diderot and the Encyclopaedists._ 2 vols. London: 1923. (A suggestive survey, parts of which have been superseded by more recent studies.)

Mornet, Daniel. _French Thought in the Eighteenth Century._ Tr. by L. M.

Levin. New York: 1929. (Lucid and penetrating survey; suggestive notes on the influence of speculation motivated by science.)

Mornet, Daniel. _Les origines intellectuelles de la Revolution francaise (1715-1787)._ Paris: 1933. (A brilliant work, concluding that without the extraordinary diffusion of radical ideas in all cla.s.ses in France, the States-General in 1789 would not have adopted revolutionary measures. See C. Brinton's review, _American Historical Review_, x.x.xIX, 726-7, 1934.)

Morse, W. N. ”Lectures on Electricity in Colonial Times,” _New England Quarterly_, VII, 364-74 (June, 1934). (Presents fourteen items on the vogue of electrical experiments, 1747-1765.)

Mott, F. L. _A History of American Magazines, 1741-1850._ New York: 1930.

Mullett, C. F. _Fundamental Law and the American Revolution, 1760-1776._ New York: 1933. (A highly important scholarly study, with excellent bibliography of relevant investigations of recent date. Supplements B.

F. Wright.)

Ornstein, Martha. _The Role of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century._ New York: 1913. Reprinted, University of Chicago Press: 1928. (Shows their radical influence. See suggestive reviews in _American Historical Review_, x.x.xIV, 386-7, 1929; and _Times Literary Supplement_ [London], 679, Sept. 27, 1928.)

Osgood, H. L. _The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century._ 4 vols.

New York: 1924-1925. (Standard work on political aspects.)

Perkins, J. B. _France in the American Revolution._ Boston: 1911.

(Includes able survey of Franklin's efforts in behalf of colonies.)

Richardson, L. N. _A History of Early American Magazines, 1741-1789._ New York: 1931. (An encyclopedic survey indispensable to all students of the period. Enormously doc.u.mented.)

Robertson, J. M. _A Short History of Free Thought, Ancient and Modern._ 2 vols. London: 1915. (Third edition, revised and expanded. An important survey, if somewhat militantly partisan.)

Roustan, Marius. _The Pioneers of the French Revolution._ Tr. by F.

Whyte, with an Introduction by H. J. Laski. Boston: 1926. (Thesis: ”The spirit of the _philosophes_ was the spirit of the Revolution.”

Highly readable, but inferior to parallel studies by Martin and Mornet in incisive a.n.a.lysis of patterns of ideas. Stresses picturesque social aspects.)

Schapiro, J. S. _Condorcet and the Rise of Liberalism in France._ New York: 1934. (Condorcet is the ”almost perfect expression of the pioneer liberalism of the period”; he is viewed as the ”last of the encyclopedists and the most universal of all.” A lucid scholarly study, although hardly superseding Alengry's _Condorcet_.)

Schlesinger, A. M. ”The American Revolution,” in _New Viewpoints in American History_. New York: 1922, pp. 160-83. (A brief but excellent interpretation, stressing economic factors, and presenting a useful ”Bibliographical Note,” pp. 181-3, including references to studies of political and religious factors. See also studies of the latter by R.

G. Adams, Alice Baldwin, Carl Becker, B. F. Wright, C. F. Mullett, C.

H. Van Tyne, and Edward Humphrey.)

Schneider, H. W. _The Puritan Mind._ New York: 1930. (An acute scholarly study, with excellent bibliography. The stress on ideas supplements and balances Parrington's tendency to dismiss ideas as by-products of economic factors.)

Smith, T. V. _The American Philosophy of Equality._ Chicago: 1927.

(Chapter I includes discussion of ”natural rights,” with recognition of the influence of European theorists.)

Smyth, A. H. _The Philadelphia Magazines and Their Contributors, 1741-1850._ Philadelphia: 1892. (Brief descriptive account, mostly superseded by the relevant sections in F. L. Mott's and L. N.