The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(A backlog of five weeks here.)

  • "Iota," From Darkness to Light.  A Confirmation Tale (Pott, Young & Co., n.d.).  Moral tale about the trials and travails of a little boy.
  • Eldad the Pilgrim: A Sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Jews in the Century Which Preceded the Advent of Our Saviour (SPCK, n.d.).  Abridged edition of a history of Judaism for children, cast as a novel.
  • Mrs. Henry Wood, Roland Yorke (S. W. Partridge, n.d.).  Sensation novel.
  • Emma Leslie, From Bondage to Freedom: A Tale of the Rise of Mohammedanism (RTS, n.d.).  Historical novel about Islam and Christianity.
  • Charles Bruce, The Story of John Heywood: A Tale of the Time of Henry VIII (W. P. Nimmo, n.d.).  Evangelicals face martyrdom to spread the gospel in the sixteenth century.
  • Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird (Picador, 2001).  College student tries to elicit the story of her mother's life. 
  • Peter Pouncey, Rules for Old Men Waiting (Random House, 2005).  A Scottish historian reflects on love and war.
  • Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: An Illustrated Novel, trans. Geoffrey Brock (Harcourt, 2004).  Amnesiac reconstructs the twentieth century as a graphic novel.
  • Hilary Mantel, The Giant, O'Brien (Henry Holt, 1998).  Irish giant meets up with John Hunter in eighteenth-century London.
  • ---, Fludd (Henry Holt, 1989).  Mysterious "curate" revives a gloomy village.
  • Nicole Krauss, The History of Love: A Novel (Norton, 2005).  Novel-within-a-novel. 
  • Colum McCann, Songdogs (Picador, 1995).  Man tries to reconstruct the trail of his wandering father.
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (Picador, 1996).  Nineteenth-century Canadian Western + adventures in twentieth-century Hollywood. 
  • John Milner, The End of Religious Controversy in a Friendly Correspondence Between a Religious Society of Protestants and a Catholic Divine (Dunigan & Brother, 1853).  US reprint of a Catholic apologetic work. 
  • John M'Donald, Romanism Analysed in the Light of Scripture, Reason, and History (Scottish Reformation Society, 1894).  Anti-Catholic catechism by a Reformed Presbyterian minister. 
  • John M. Mackenzie, ed., The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain (Victoria & Albert, 2001).  Copiously illustrated social and cultural history.
  • Dorothy Thompson, Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation (Verso, 1993).  Women, Chartism, etc.
  • Keith Thomson, Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature (Yale, 2005).  Enlightenment science and theology.
  • Anthony Symondson, ed., The Victorian Crisis of Faith (SPCK, 1970).  Classic collection of lectures on evangelicalism, missionaries, Newman, etc.
  • J. H. S. Burleigh, A Church History of Scotland (Oxford, 1960).  Exactly what it sounds like: Scottish ecclesiastical history, from the beginnings to the twentieth century. 
  • Ian Donnachie and Christopher Whatley, eds., The Manufacture of Scottish History (Polygon, 1992).  Historiographical survey. 
  • John Prebble, The King's Jaunt (Birlinn, 1988).  George IV's famous trip to Scotland. 
  • John H. G. Archer, ed., Art and Architecture in Victorian Manchester (Manchester, 1985).  Collections, artists, patronage, etc.
  • Neil McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde: An Intimate Biography (Basic, 2005).  Yet another biography.
  • Alexis Easley, First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-1870 (Ashgate, 2004).  Role of anonymous publication in women writers' careers. 
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