24 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 23

THE STORY OF GEORGE FOX. By Rufus M. Jones. (Macmillan.

5s. net.) The learned American historian of Quakerism has written an admirable little account of the founder of the Society of Friends. Fox's own journal is of course the best book on that astonishing man, but Mr. Jones's lucid and dispassionate memoir is easier reading and supplies the historical back- ground for Fox's activities. Mr. Jones is careful to distinguish between Fox's unconventionality and the wild fanaticism of James Nayler, whose sad end, as the biographer admits, caused Fox to modify his denunciations of Church and chapel. The second half of Fox's life was thus an even more convincing exhibition of the moral force that can be exerted by faith than his stormier youth had been.