Philadelphia: The Place and the People

xxi, 392 pp. Grey cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Engraved illustrations by Ernest C. Peixotto. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Founder of the Quaker City; The Founding of the Quaker City; The Quaker City's Childhood; The Last Years of William Penn; How the Quaker City Grew; The Birth of Learning in the Quaker City; The State House and Its Message; How the Quaker City Spent Its Money; War and the Rumours of War; The Eve of the Revolution; The Dawn of the Revolution; War; A Gay Captivity; Lords of Misrule; Reconstruction; Philadelphia Regnant; Two Forms of Fever; Depression; Riots; The Civil War; The Quaker City of To-day.