George Boone III (1666-1844) married Mary Milton Maugridge about 1689 and, as Quakers, in 1717 the family immigrated from England to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsyl- vania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Washington and elsewhere.

At the repeated request of many scholars and students here is a new edition of E. Zürcher's groundbreaking The Buddhist Conquest of China. In his extensive introduction Stephen F. Teiser (D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies, Princeton University) explains why the book is still the standard in the field of early Chinese Buddhism.

Wentworth, who reads Born Free aloud to his friends, but pretends in school that he can't read--and succeeds so well that his teachers consider him hopelessly illiterate . . . Cleo, the "bad girl" leader of a gang, who develops a rehabilitation program for a fourteen-year old alcoholic pool hustler . . . Snapper, bright and alert enough to rescue a student suffering an epileptic seizure, but who has difficulty responding to the simplest classroom questions. These are the naked children.

Writing to Be Read is the high school version of Telling Writing. This third edition reaffirms Ken Macrorie's continuing commitment to young writers, as well as the perennial popularity of Writing to Be Read. Like all fine teachers, Macrorie has remained a student of his subject, and this book is informed by fresh classroom discoveries. The book embodies a carefully articulated writing course that gives students the freedom to find their voices and let their subjects find them.