Bemis, S. F. _The Diplomacy of the American Revolution._ New York; 1935. (Brilliant exposition of French, Spanish, Austrian, and other diplomacy relative to the Revolution. Should be supplemented by Frank Monaghan's _John Jay_.) Bloch, Léon. _La philosophie de Newton._ Paris: 1908. (A comprehensive, standard exposition.) Bosker, Aisso. _Literary Criticism in the Age of Johnson._ Groningen: 1930. (Reviewed by N. Foerster in _Philological Quarterly_, XI, 216-7.) Brasch, F. E. "The Royal Society of London and Its Influence upon Scientific Thought in the American Colonies," _Scientific Monthly_, XXXIII, 336-55, 448-69 (1931). (Useful survey.) Brinton, Crane. _A Decade of Revolutions, 1789-1799._ New York: 1934. (Useful on the pattern of ideas associated with the French Revolution; has a full and up-to-date "Bibliographical Essay," pp. 293-322, with critical commentary.) Bullock, C. J. _Essays on the Monetary History of the United States._ New York: 1900. (Useful bibliography, pp. 275-88.) Burnett, E. C., ed. _Letters of Members of the Continental Congress._ Washington, D. C.: 1921. (Seven volumes now published include letters to 1784. Contain a mass of new material of first importance, edited with notes, cross-references, and introductions.) Burtt, E. A. _The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science; A Historical and Critical Essay._ New York: 1925. Bury, J. B. _The Idea of Progress._ New York: 1932 (new edition). (Standard English work on the topic. See also Jules Delvaille, _Essai sur l'histoire de l'idée de progrès_ [Paris, 1910], a more encyclopedic book.) Channing, Edward. _A History of the United States._ New York: 1912. (Volumes II-III.) Clark, H. H. "Factors to be Investigated in American Literary History from 1787 to 1800," _English Journal_, XXIII, 481-7 (June, 1934). (Suggests the genetic interrelations of classical ideas; neoclassicism; the scientific spirit, rationalism, and deism; primitivism and the idea of progress; physical America and the frontier spirit; agrarianism and laissez faire; Federalism versus Democracy, whether Jeffersonian or French; sentimentalism and humanitarianism; Gothicism; and conflicting currents of aesthetic theory.) Clark, H. H., ed. _Poems of Freneau._ New York: 1929. (F. L. Pattee says of the Introduction, "No one has ever traced out better the ramifications of French Revolution deism in America and the effects of its clash with Puritanism" [_American Literature_, II, 316-7]. Also see Clark's "Thomas Paine's Theories of Rhetoric," _Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters_, XXVIII, 307-39 [1933], which discusses relationships between deism and literary theory.)