Special works are: H. M. Dexter, _The England and Holland of the Pilgrims_ (1905), a very valuable and learned account; C. F. Adams, _Three Episodes of Massachusetts History_, 2 vols. (1892), treating of the antecedents of Boston, the Antinomian Controversy, and church and town government, the first essay especially being indispensable; R. M. Jones, _The Quakers in the American Colonies_ (1911), the fairest account of the Quakers in New England. W. De L. Love, _The Colonial History of Hartford_ (1914); W. E. Weeden, _Early Rhode Island_ (1910); and G. S. Kimball, _Providence in Colonial Times_ (1912), are in every way excellent, that of Love being a minutely critical analysis of the Connecticut settlement. W. E. Weeden, _Social and Economic History of New England_, 2 vols. (1891), is a valuable collection of information. Certain chapters in Edward Eggleston's _Transit of Civilization_ (1901) treat of the mental outfit of the colonists; and M. W. Jernegan in the _School Review_, June, 1915, deals with the beginnings of public education in New England; G. L. Beer, _Origins of the British Colonial System_, 1660-1688, 2 vols. (1912), and C. M. Andrews, _British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations_, 1622-1675 (1908), concern British policy and administration in the seventeenth century. Biographies varying greatly in value and manner of treatment follow: R. C. Winthrop, _Life and Letters of John Winthrop_, 2 vols. (2d ed. 1869); G. L. Walker, _Thomas Hooker_ (1891, Makers of America Series); J. H. Twichell, _John Winthrop_ (1891, _id._); A. Steele, _Elder Brewster_ (1857); L. G. Jones, _Samuel Gorton_ (1896); A. Gorton, _The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton_ (1907); O. S. Straus, _Roger Williams_ (1894); M. E. Hall, _Roger Williams_ (1917); T. W. Bicknell, _Story of Dr. John Clarke_ (1915); J. M. Taylor, _Roger Ludlow_ (1900); J. K. Hosmer, _Young Sir Harry Vane_ (1888); _A Memoir of Sir John Leverett, Knt._ (1856); and in _American Biography_, 10 vols., are lives of John Mason by G. E. Ellis, Roger Williams by William Gammell, Samuel Gorton by John M. Mackie, and Anne Hutchinson by G. E. Ellis, though none of them is particularly satisfactory.