The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(Believe it or not, with the exception of the Peter Marshall book, everything on this list...was free.  The lifetime supply of religious periodicals was courtesy of Michael Wolff.)

  • The Clerical World: A Paper for the Pulpit and the Pew 1 (1882).  Sermons, religious news, professional topics, and the like.  It soon morphed into The Family Churchman.  There's a brief account of the periodical in The Practical Life Work of Henry Drummond.
    The Quiver: An Illustrated Magazine for Sunday and General Reading (1884).  Super-popular weekly, featuring stories, topics of special interest, etc.   GoogleBooks has two issues digitized; a couple of illustrations here; very, very short overviews at Victorian Periodicals (scroll down) and Magazine Data (likewise).  Apparently, the magazine awarded a prize.
  • Church of England Magazine 16 (1844).  Anglican journal; published until 1875.
  • Gospel Magazine and Protestant Beacon 4-5 (1860-61).  Two years bound together of this very evangelical journal (I previously acquired a copy of vol. 4 with one month missing). 
  • The Christian Family Advocate 1-3 (1852-54).  Three volumes of a Protestant journal, edited by novelist and pedagogical theorist Caroline Ponsonby (who is not to be confused with the much more famous Caroline Ponsonby, better known as Lady Caroline Lamb). 
  • The Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine and Guide to Christian Truth (1859).  Another Anglican journal; published until 1889. 
  • The Youth's Magazine or Evangelical Miscellany for the Year 1821 n.s. 6 (1821).  Children's journal.  Its origins are discussed at the Victorian Web, which also has an illustration; more illustrations here; short VIctorian account.  The 1867 volume has been digitized.
  • Christian Remembrancer; Or, the Churchman's Biblical, Ecclesiastical, & Literary Miscellany 1 (1819).  Long-running, very High Church quarterly.  GoogleBooks has the 1864 volume digitized.  Bronte Blog discusses the journal's response to Villette.
  • The Clergyman's Magazine no. 2 n.s. (Feb. 1887).  One issue of this professional quarterly, published from 1875-98.
  • The Truth-Seeker: Or Present Age: A Catholic Review of Literature, Philosophy, and Religion 2 n.s. (1850).  Despite the subtitle, not Roman Catholic.  One of the editors, Frederic Richard Lees, was a well-known temperance advocate.
  • Christian Guardian, and Churchman's Magazine (1853).  Anglican periodical.
  • Christian Messenger (1875, 1879).  Two volumes of a Primitive Methodist journal; not to be confused with the American magazine of the same name. 
  • Peter Marshall, Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England (Oxford, 2004).  Analyzes sixteenth-century debates over purgatory.
  • Murray Pittock, The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe (Continuum, 2007).  Massive study of Scott's readers and imitators all over the Continent, in both the nineteenth century and afterwards.   I'm reviewing this for Choice. 
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