The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman on the March (Knopf, 2005).  Newest installment in Fraser's terrific series.
  • Howard M. Sachar, A History of the Jews in the Modern World (Knopf, 2005).  Global history covering the Enlightenment to the present day.
  • Mary Spongberg, Ann Curthoys, and Barbara Caine, eds., A Companion to Women's Historical Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).  Women historians of "all ages and nations," as they used to say.  Includes two articles by yours truly.
  • The British Pulpit: A Collection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Divines of the Present Day, vol. II (Thomas Tegg, 1844).  Exactly what it sounds like--a lot of sermons.  One volume from a six-volume set.
  • John Cumming, Lectures for the Times, or, Illustrations and Refutations of the Errors of Romanism and Tractarianism, new ed. (Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1855). Also exactly what it sounds like--Cumming on the attack against Catholicism and the Oxford Movement.  More information on Cumming here. 
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