Good Order Established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey

ISBN: 9781331600541 出版年：2016 页码：81 Thomas Budd Forgotten Books

Moses Coit Tyler says in his History of Ameri can Literature during the Colonial Pre cisely fifteen years after the publication of Daniel Denton's Winsome sketch of the province of New York, Thomas Budd, of New Jersey, a worthy Quaker, and a man of much importance in his own neighborhood, published, likewise at London, a little book entitled Good Order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in America.' The purpose of this book, like that of Daniel Denton, was to catch the eye of emigrants; and for that purpose it perhaps did not need, as certainly it did not have, much literary merit. On the other hand William A. Whitehead says in his chapter on The English in East and West Jer sey in the Narrative and Critical History of America ff Mr. Budd's work exhibits the pos session of intelligence and public spirit to a remarkable degree. Some of his suggestions as to the education which should be given to the.