Franklin, Benjamin. _Poor Richard's Almanack. Being the Almanacks of 1733, 1749, 1756, 1757, 1758, first written under the name of Richard Saunders._ With a foreword by Phillips Russell. Garden City, N. Y.: 1928. ("First facsimile edition of a group of the Almanacks to be published.") Franklin, Benjamin. _The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin Originally Printed in Poor Richard's Almanacs for 1733-1758._ Collected and ed. by P. L. Ford. Brooklyn: 1890. (Best collection of its kind; in addition contains account of popularity and function of almanacs in colonial period.) Franklin, Benjamin. _Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania._ Facsimile reprint, with an introduction by William Pepper. Philadelphia: 1931. (Franklin's notes omitted in Smyth. _Proposals_ also reprinted by the William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan: 1927; "though not a facsimile reprint," it does include the notes. Thomas Woody in his _Educational Views of Benjamin Franklin_ [New York: 1931] reprints it with the notes.) Franklin, Benjamin. _The Sayings of Poor Richard, 1733-1758._ Condensed and ed. by T. H. Russell. N.p.: n.d. (Best aphorisms chronologically arranged.) Goodman, N. G., ed. _The Ingenious Dr. Franklin; Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin._ Philadelphia: 1931. (Includes several items not published in Smyth edition.) _Letters to Benjamin Franklin, from his Family and Friends, 1751-1790._ [Ed. by William Duane.] New York: 1859. Pepper, William. _The Medical Side of Benjamin Franklin._ Philadelphia: 1911. (Essentially quotations from the A. H. Smyth edition. Franklin is viewed as "an early and great hygienist.") Stifler, J. M., ed. "_My Dear Girl._" _The Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin with Polly Stevenson, Georgiana and Catherine Shipley._ New York: 1927. (Engaging collection showing Franklin's "capacity for lively and enduring friendship" [p. vii]. Many of the letters _to_ Franklin "printed now for the first time." Contains several of Franklin's letters hitherto unpublished.) III. BIOGRAPHIES Becker, Carl. "Benjamin Franklin," in _Dictionary of American Biography_. New York: 1931. VI, 585-98. (The most authoritative brief biography.) *Bruce, W. C. _Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed._ 2 vols. New York: 1917. (In spite of occasional extravagant statements and a conservative temperament preventing him from discussing Franklin's religion with sympathetic and historical insight, Mr. Bruce has provided a brilliant and perspicuous survey. "Self-revealed" fails to do justice to Bruce's incisive commentary.)