This Week's Acquisitions

(Aside from the aforementioned Ford Focus, which I just brought home.)

• Roger Luckhurst, ed., Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Oxford, 2005).  New anthology featuring Kipling, Machen, Doyle, etc.
• Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund, Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work (Virginia, 1999).  Examines how Gaskell negotiated the Victorian literary marketplace and how that affected her fiction.
• Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons; Or the Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife (Loizeaux Brothers, 1959).  Reprint of this hugely popular mid-Victorian work, which argues that "Rome is in very deed the Babylon of the Apocalypse" (3).  Still in print, and continues to exert considerable influence in some circles (try googling Hislop and see what happens).