This Week's Acquisitions
- Charlotte Yonge, Lady Hester and The Danvers Papers (Macmillan, 1882). Two short novels, one a domestic tale set in the Victorian period and the other an epistolary historical novel set during the late seventeenth century. (The latter has a Victorian frame narrative.)
- Armin Stein, Luther and the Cardinal: A Historic-Biographical Tale, trans. Julie Sutter (RTS, 1883). Translation of a German historical novel about Luther's clash with Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg. This review suggests that the novel was part of a "Luther commemoration."
- Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers (Pantheon, 2007). And, on a completely different note, a historical novel set during the McCarthy era.
- George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation (Riverhead, 2007). Short stories of a decidedly satirical bent about the current American scene.
- David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk: A Novel (Bloomsbury, 2007). Historical novel about mathematicians G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- Joseph O'Connor, Redemption Falls: A Novel (Free Press, 2007). Irish immigrants in America during the Civil War; takes off from O'Connor's excellent Star of the Sea.
- The Gospel Magazine and Protestant Beacon (Mar. 1882). One issue of this still-operational evangelical magazine, edited by David Alfred Doudney at this point during the run.
- The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle 10 (1868). Bound volume of the London Missionary Society's journal.