The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Robb Forman Drew, The Truth of the Matter: A Novel (Little, Brown, 2005).  Sequel to The Evidence Against Her. 
  • Thomas Hartwell Horne, A Protestant Memorial for the Commemoration, on the Fourth Day of October, MDCCCXXXV., of the Third Cententary of the Reformation, and of the Publication of the First Entire Protestant English Version of the Bible, Oct. IV, MDXXXV, 2nd ed., corr. and enl. (T. Cadell, 1835).  Polemical account of the Reformation, plus general attack on Roman Catholicism; bound with the tract below.  Horne was a librarian and well-known biblical scholar.
  • The Rev. John East, The Jubilee of the Bible, Octber 4, 1835.  An Address to My Fellow Christians (Benj. Hickman, 1835).  A much briefer anti-Catholic tract on the same subject.  Some more of East's prose here.
  • Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, eds., The Oxford History of Christian Worship (Oxford, 2005).  Encyclopedic history of liturgy, etc. from the beginnings until the present day.   
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