The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • John Walton, the Honest Cabin Boy (RTS, n.d.).  Cute little RTS tract, probably from mid-century, about how a cabin boy's devotion to virtue allows him to turn a profit and rescue his mother from the workhouse.  (eBay)
  • Harry Thompson, This Thing of Darkness (Headline, 2005).  A rather hefty historical novel about Robert Fitzroy, the captain of the HMS Beagle, and his increasingly strained relationship with Charles Darwin.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • The Christian Witness and Church Members' Magazine, vol. 18 (1861).  One volume of a British Congregationalist journal. (eBay)
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