This Week's Acquisitions

  • Cecilia Mary Caddell, Wild Times: A Tale of the Days of Queen Elizabeth (Burns and Oates, n.d.).  Late-Victorian Catholic historical novel; features Richard Topcliffe as a villain.
  • Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (NYRB, 2005).  The perils of faux archaeology.
  • Jean Louis de Lolme, The Constitution of England (Liberty Fund, 2007).  Reprints the fourth edition of de Lolme's work of political theory; part of Liberty Fund's Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series.
  • Christopher Burdon, The Apocalypse in England: Revelation Unraveling, 1700-1834 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997).  Study of English apocalyptics.