This Week's Acquisitions

(Did I mention that I went to Powell's while I was in Chicago?  Only the Hyde Park branch, mind you.)

• Frances Hodgson Burnett, That Lass O'Lowrie's (Alan Sutton, 1999).  Burnett in adult mode, featuring women working in the mines.  Originally published in 1876.
• Rodney Hall, Just Relations (Fireside, 1989).  Life in a remote village.
• Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of Starlight (Dalkey Archive, 2005).  Experimental historical novel set in 1930s New Jersey.  Originally published in 1993.
• Heather Glen, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (Cambridge, 2003).  Yet another installment in Cambridge's apparently endless stream of companions.  (I'm using this in a class next semester.)
• Franco Moretti, ed., The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes (Princeton, 2006).  2nd volume of Moretti's massive literary history.
• Thomas Carlyle, Historical Essays (U of California, 2002). A volume in the standard edition of Carlyle.
• Anthony Hobson, J W Waterhouse (Phaidon, 1994).  Brief overview of the Victorian painter.
• Friendly Visitor: A Gospel Magazine for the People 28 (1894).  Christian magazine.  (This one has several annotations about the gift and the death of the giver, a military officer.) 
• Jonathan Sheehan, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Princeton, 2005).  Theory and practice of Biblical translation in the eighteenth century.
• Michael Trott, The Life Of Richard Waldo Sibthorp: Evangelical, Catholic And Ritual Revivalism In The Nineteenth-century Church (Sussex, 2005).  Short biography of a remarkably undecided clergyman.