[ 164 ] BOOK reviews Deal will be disappointed. Freidel concedes that Roosevelt had no intention of effecting fundamental changes in the economy, but argues that even had he been so disposed, the contemporary political and intellectual climate (in which he was criticized for going too far) precluded such action. Ifa later volumes Freidel may not be able so easily to parry their criticisms. Impressive in documentation, judicious in interpretation, and effective in syntax, Freidel's latest effort, like the earlier volumes in the project, will undoubtedly stand as the definitive work on the subject. richard n. kottman, Iowa State University THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY, BROWN UNIVERSITY, ANNUAL REPORTS, 1901-1966 (8 vols., Providence: John Carter BrOwn Library and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1972. Preface, intro., illus., index. $100.00.) The luster of quiet scholarship, the beauty of felicitous expression, and the magnetism of radiant enthusiasm are combined perfectly in these reports to produce a collection of enchanting essays of permanent historical and bibliographical importance. Bookmen everywhere will read and reread them with admiration and delight. And some, perchance, will read with a twinge of envy the frequent announcements that a coveted book, long sought for a personal or another institutional collection, was added almost as a matter of course to the shelves of the John Carter Brown Library. Few indeed are the institutions in any field that can point to annual reports spanning two-thirds of a century which equal in merit and in charm the perennial triumphs recorded by the pens of five librarians in Providence: George Parker Winship, 1901-15; Champlin Burrage, 1916; Worthington C. Ford, 1917-23; Lawrence C. Wroth, 1924-57; Thomas R. Adams (the present librarian), 1958-66. To have all of these annual reports in seven attractive volumes is to have at hand reliable descriptions of many of the most important firsthand accounts ever written of the discovery, exploration, and first settlement of the New World. The relationship of one book to another is often pointed out for the first time, and this in turn suggests new approaches to the historian. At the conclusion of his graceful introduction, Edmund S. Morgan captures the essence of the Annual Reports as a whole by saying that they are "an invitation to renew the ancient and fruitful alliance of collectors, bibliographers, and historians!' In the first report Winship extended the invitation "to mature and qualified students from all parts of the world" and from the 1966 report we learn that that invitation was accepted in 1965-66 by over eighteen hundred scholars. Winship established a pattern that his successors have in general continued. Short work is made of administrative details and similar trivia so