This Week's Acquisitions

(Some acquisitions courtesy of Friend in Santa Barbara and Dad the Emeritus Historian of Graeco-Roman Egypt.)

• Isabel Allende, Zorro: A Novel, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (HarperCollins, 2005).  Fictional reinvention of the character created by Johnston McCulley.
• ---, Ines of My Soul, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (HarperCollins, 2006).  Historical novel about conquistadora Ines Suarez.
• J. Paul Hunter, The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe's Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in Robinson Crusoe (Johns Hopkins, 1966).  Development of the "symbolic novel."
• R. Po-chia Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (Cambridge, 2005).  Synthetic study of the Counter-Reformation.
• S. J. Abbott, Revelations of Modern Convents; Or, Life in Convents on British Soil in the Closing Years of the Nineteenth Century.  Intended as an Earnest Appeal to the British Public (J. Kensit and W. Wileman, 1899).  Anti-Catholic polemic published for the "Convent Enquiry Society." (Makes note to head to library basement for Fr. Rene Kollar's article on same.) John Kensit, the co-publisher, was a famous anti-Catholic/anti-Ritualist campaigner of the late nineteenth century; he was killed during a riot in 1902.
• H. W. Dearden, Modern Romanism Examined (Nisbet, 1899).  Purportedly conciliatory (but still anti-Catholic) controversial work.