The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Derek Walcott, Omeros (FSG, 1992).  Odysseus--modern, but still epic.
  • Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, ed., Black Victorians--Black Victoriana (Rutgers, 2003).  Collection of essays about the experience of blacks (native, visiting, and immigrant) in nineteenth-century Britain. 
  • John Oxlee, A Sermon Preached at the Visitation of the Right Worshipful Charles Baillie, M.A. Held at Thirsk, July 10, 1816.  With Copious Notes: In which is demonstrated, on the broadest and most fundamental principles of the Christian faith, that the full power of remitting or retaining Sins, and of dispensing Absolution, is an essential prerogative of the Christian Priesthood (Wilson and Sons, 1819).  What the subtitle says... 
  • Ritualism, or the Claims of the Sacerdotalists (n.p., n.d.; 1899-1900?).  A Dissenting critique of the Church of England.  (Despite the title, the writer finds "Ritualism" itself to be harmless.)  The pamphlet is innocent of a t.p. and anything else that might indicate authorship. 
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