The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Margaret Deland, John Ward, Preacher (Houghton Mifflin, 1888).  A nice but ultra-Calvinist clergyman marries a nice but heterodox woman, with increasingly problematic results.  (eBay)
  • Olivia Shakespear, Beauty's Hour, ed. Anne Margaret Daniel (Valancourt, 2016).  New edition of this 1896 novella about a woman who discovers that she can magically transform herself into a great beauty, with (again) problematic results.  (Amazon)
  • Richard Watson, Conversations for the Young: Designed to Promote the Profitable Reading of the Scriptures (T. Mason and G. Lane, 1840).  US reprint of an 1830 series of dialogues explicating the proper methods of interpreting the Bible.  (This is the Methodist Richard Watson, not the more famous Anglican one.)  (eBay)
  • David Jasper and T. R. Wright, The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe: Essays in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Religion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Reprint of an important 1989 collection on doubt, aesthetics, fiction, etc.  (Amazon)
  • Tom Gallagher, Glasgow: The Uneasy Peace (Manchester, 1987). Examines Protestant-Catholic conflicts in Glasgow during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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