Some Account of the Design of the Trustees for Establishing Colonys in America.

It is good to have in print, in handsome format, and after 260 years of waiting, Oglethorpe's persuasive tract describing the attractions of a colony in Georgia, and making the case for settling it with 'laborious and honest people whose motive for leaving their country should not be crimes but misfortunes'. In their detailed notes to James Edward Oglethorpe's Some Account of the Design of the Trustees for Establishing Colonys in America, ed. Rodney M. Baine and Phinizy Spalding (Athens, Ga./London: U. of Georgia P., 1990; pp. xxx + 60. $25) the editors make a strong case for seeing Oglethorpe as a founding father comparable to Winthrop and to Penn; he himself drew on parallels …