This Week's Acquisitions
- M. R. Housekeeper, The Hermit of Livry: A Story of the Sixteenth Century (Lutheran Book Concern, n.d.). A Reformation tale, originally published in 1889. The real but otherwise anonymous hermit, martyred in the sixteenth century, also inspired a novel by Emma Leslie and a short tract.
- Marguerite Yourcenar, The Abyss, trans. Yourcenar and Grace Frick (Noonday, 1976). Two voyagers in sixteenth-century France.
- T. Noon Talfourd and James Stephen, Modern British Essayists (Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1854). Two collections of Victorian book reviews published in one volume. Talfourd is best known as one of Ann Radcliffe's early biographers.
- Grace Seiberling with Carolyn Bloore, Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination (Chicago, 1986). Examines the beginning of the craze for popular photography after the Great Exhibition.
- Richard Cumberland, A Treatise of the Laws of Nature, ed. Jon Parkin (LibertyFund, 2005). Newest entry in the "Natural Law and Enlightenment" series.