The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Emma Leslie, At the Sign of the Blue Boar: A Story of the Reign of Charles II (RTS, c. 1880s). Evangelical novel set in 1662. A Royalist family tries to regain their lost estate.

  • Kenneth Clark, The Nude (Princeton, 1990). Most recent printing of Clark's classic work of art history.

  • Edward Quinn, History in Literature: A Reader's Guide to 20th Century History and the Literature It Inspired (Checkmark, 2004). Identifies and summarizes novels based on major historical events.

  • Lester I. Vogel, To See a Promised Land: Americans and the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century (Penn State, 1993). Examines representations of the Holy Land in missionary, archaeological and tourist narratives.
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