Fa, Bernard. "Les debuts de Franklin en France," _Revue de Paris_, 577-605 (Feb. 1, 1931).
Fa, Bernard. "Les dernieres amours d"un philosophe," _Correspondant_, 381-96 (May 10, 1930).
Fa, Bernard. "Le triomphe de Franklin en France," _Revue de Paris_, 872-96 (Feb. 15, 1931).
Ford, P. L. "Franklin as Printer and Publisher," _Century Magazine_, LVII, 803-17 (April, 1899).
Ford, W. C. "Franklin and Chatham," _Independent_, LX, 94-7 (Jan. 11, 1906).
Ford, W. C. "Franklin"s New England Courant," _Proceedings of the Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society_, LVII, 336-53 (April, 1924).
Ford, W. C. "One of Franklin"s Friendships. From Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence between Madame de Brillon and Benjamin Franklin, 1776-1789," _Harper"s Magazine_, CXIII, 626-33 (Sept., 1906).
Foster, J. W. "Franklin as a Diplomat," _Independent_, LX, 84-9 (Jan.
11, 1906).
Fox, R. H. _Dr. John Fothergill and His Friends; Chapters in Eighteenth Century Life._ London: 1919. (Franklin and Fothergill, "lovers of nature and keen students of physical science," met in 1757. See also J. C. Lettsom, _Memoirs of John Fothergill_, 4th ed., London: 1786.)
Garrison, F. W. "Franklin and the Physiocrats," _Freeman_, VIII, 154-6 (Oct. 24, 1923). (Transcended by Carey"s chapter in _Franklin"s Economic Views_, but has quotation from Dupont de Nemours [1769]: "Who does not know that the English have today their Benjamin Franklin, who has adopted the principles and the doctrines of our French economists?")
Goggio, E. "Benjamin Franklin and Italy," _Romanic Review_, XIX, 302-8 (Oct., 1928). (Largely through the efforts of G. Beccaria, "Benjamin Franklin was one of the first Americans to gain eminence and popularity among the people of Italy.")
Goode, G. B. "The Literary Labors of Benjamin Franklin," _Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society_, XXVIII, 177-97 (1890).
Grandgent, C. H. "Benjamin Franklin the Reformer," in _Prunes and Prisms, with Other Odds and Ends_. Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: 1928, pp. 86-97.
("The principles advocated in his unfinished exposition [on spelling reform] are those which phoneticians now advocate.")
Greene, S. A. "The Story of a Famous Book," _Atlantic Monthly_, XXVII, 207-12 (Feb., 1871). (A kind of _precis_ of Bigelow"s Introduction to _Autobiography_.)
Griswold, A. W. "Three Puritans on Prosperity," _New England Quarterly_, VII, 475-93 (Sept., 1934). (Cotton Mather, Timothy Dwight, and Franklin. One wonders by what right Franklin is dubbed the "soul of Puritanism.")
Guedalla, Philip. "Dr. Franklin," in _Fathers of the Revolution_. New York: 1926, pp. 215-34. (Chatty popular review of "the first high-priest of the religion of efficiency.")
Guillois, Antoine. _Le salon de Madame Helvetius._ Paris: 1894.
Gummere, R. M. "Socrates at the Printing Press. Benjamin Franklin and the Cla.s.sics," _Cla.s.sical Weekly_, XXVI, 57-9 (Dec. 5, 1932). (Survey of his references to the cla.s.sics, with occasional estimates of impact on his mind.)
Hale, E. E. "Ben Franklin"s Ballads," _New England Magazine_, N. S.
XVIII, 505-7 (1898). (Thinks "The Downfall of Piracy," found in Ashton"s _Real Sea-Songs_, is "one of the two lost ballads" Franklin mentions in _Autobiography_.)
Hale, E. E. "Franklin as Philosopher and Moralist," _Independent_, LX, 89-93 (Jan. 11, 1906). (Does not go beyond terming Franklin"s philosophy common sense.)
Harrison, Frederic. "Benjamin Franklin," in _Memories and Thoughts_. New York: 1906, pp. 119-23. (Keen appraisal.)
Hart, C. H. "Benjamin Franklin in Allegory," _Century Magazine_, XLI (N.
S. XIX), 197-204 (Dec., 1890). (The French sanctify Franklin in allegory.)
Hart, C. H. "Who Was the Mother of Franklin"s Son? An Inquiry Demonstrating that She Was Deborah Read, Wife of Benjamin Franklin,"
_Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_, x.x.xV, 308-14 (July, 1911). (Plausible circ.u.mstantial evidence is offered.)
Hays, I. M. _The Chronology of Benjamin Franklin, Founder of the American Philosophical Society._ Philadelphia: 1904.
Hill, D. J. "A Missing Chapter of Franco-American History," _American Historical Review_, XXI, 709-19 (July, 1916). (Political interests of Masonic "Lodge of the Nine Sisters," Paris, of which Franklin was an active member. Franklin described as "creator of const.i.tutionalism in Europe.")
Houston, E. J. "Franklin as a Man of Science and an Inventor," _Journal of the Franklin Inst.i.tute_, CLXI, Nos. 4-5, 241-383 (April-May, 1906).
Hulbert, C. _Biographical Sketches of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, General Washington, and Thomas Paine; with an Essay on Atheism and Infidelity._ London: 1820. (Franklin and Washington made almost saintly to contrast with Paine, "a notorious Unbeliever." Quotes one who sees Franklin as "the patriot of the world, the playmate of the lightning, the philosopher of liberty.")
Jackson, M. K. _Outlines of the Literary History of Colonial Pennsylvania._ Lancaster, Pa.: 1906. (Especially chapter III, which surveys Franklin as man of letters.)
Jernegan, M. W. "Benjamin Franklin"s "Electrical Kite" and Lightning Rod," _New England Quarterly_, I, 180-96 (April, 1928). ("The question still remains however whether Franklin flew his kite _before_ he heard of the French experiments, and thus discovered the ident.i.ty of lightning and electricity independently." Summarizes and supersedes: McAdie, A., "The Date of Franklin"s Kite Experiment," _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, N. S. x.x.xIV, 188-205; Rotch, A. L., "Did Benjamin Franklin Fly His Electrical Kite before He Invented the Lightning Rod?" _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_, N.
S. XVIII, 115-23.)
Jordan, J. W. "Franklin as a Genealogist," _Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_, XXIII, 1-22 (April, 1899).
Jorgenson, C. E. "A Brand Flung at Colonial Orthodoxy. Samuel Keimer"s "Universal Instructor in All Arts and Sciences,"" _Journalism Quarterly_, XII, 272-7 (Sept., 1935). (Shows deistic tendencies.)
Jorgenson, C. E. "The New Science in the Almanacs of Ames and Franklin,"
_New England Quarterly_, VIII, 555-61 (Dec., 1935). (Newtonianism and scientific deism diffused through these popular almanacs.)
Jorgenson, C. E. "Sidelights on Benjamin Franklin"s Principles of Rhetoric," _Revue Anglo-Americaine_, 208-22 (Feb., 1934). (Franklin"s principles in general are consonant with the eighteenth-century neocla.s.sic ideals.)
Jorgenson, C. E. "The Source of Benjamin Franklin"s Dialogues between Philocles and Horatio (1730)," _American Literature_, VI, 337-9 (Nov., 1934). (The source is Shaftesbury"s "The Moralists," in the _Characteristics_.)
*Jusserand, J. J. "Franklin in France," in _Essays Offered to Herbert Putnam...._ Ed. by W. W. Bishop and A. Keogh. New Haven: 1929, pp.
226-47. (Delightful summary.)
Kane, Hope F. "James Franklin Senior, Printer of Boston and Newport,"
_American Collector_, III, 17-26 (Oct., 1926). (A study of his _New England Courant_ and his place in the development of freedom of the press.)
King, M. R. "One Link in the First Newspaper Chain, _The South Carolina Gazette," Journalism Quarterly_, IX, 257-68 (Sept., 1932). (Franklin"s partnership with Thomas Whitemarsh in 1731 is here alleged to have begun the first American newspaper "chain.")
Kite, Elizabeth S. "Benjamin Franklin--Diplomat," _Catholic World_, CXLII, 28-37 (Oct., 1935). (An intelligent and appreciative brief survey of the subject, with a considerable preface showing the extent to which Franklin"s worldly success grew out of his religious views.)
Lees, F. "The Parisian Suburb of Pa.s.sy: Its Architecture in the Days of Franklin," _Architectural Record_, XII, 669-83 (Dec., 1902). (Several good ill.u.s.trations included.)
Livingston, L. S. _Franklin and His Press at Pa.s.sy; An Account of the Books, Pamphlets, and Leaflets Printed There, including the Long-Lost Bagatelles._ The Grolier Club, New York: 1914. (For additions to this work begun by L. S. Livingston, see R. G. Adams, "The "Pa.s.sy-ports"
and Their Press," _American Collector_, IV, 177-80 [Aug., 1927], which includes bibliography useful to study of the Pa.s.sy imprints.)
MacDonald, William. "The Fame of Franklin," _Atlantic Monthly_, XCVI.
450-62 (Oct., 1905).
Mackay, Constance D"A. _Franklin. A Play._ New York: 1922.
MacLaurin, Lois M. _Franklin"s Vocabulary._ Garden City, N. Y.: 1928.
(His "conservative ideas about linguistic innovations" are to a notable degree achieved in his practices. For example, of a vocabulary of 4062 words used in his writings between 1722 and 1751, "only 19 were discovered to be pure "Americanisms."")
McMaster, J. B. "Franklin in France," _Atlantic Monthly_, LX, 318-26 (Sept., 1887). (Good survey, based on Hale and Hale, _Franklin in France_.)