This Week's Acquisitions
- Frederic William Farrar, Julian Home: A Tale of College Life (E. P. Dutton, 1897). Late-Victorian entry in the "college novel" sweepstakes (The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green is probably one of the better-known examples of the genre). Farrar is best remembered for his didactic schoolboy novel Eric; Or, Little by Little (1858); unlike Eric, Julian lives happily ever after. (eBay)