This Week's Acquisitions
- Jeanie Selina Dammast, St. Mary's Convent; Or, Chapters in the Life of a Nun (S. W. Partridge, 1899). Late-Victorian anti-Catholic novel.
- Clare Clark, The Great Stink (Harcourt, 2005). Historical thriller set in, er, the sewers.
- Robert Hellenga, Philosophy Made Simple (Little, Brown, 2006). Despite the title, this is a novel.
- The Cottager's Monthly Visitor, vol. 3 (1823). Bound volume of a Christian periodical aimed at rural, working-class readers.
- John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, ed. Aaron Garrett (Liberty Fund, 2006). Reprints the 4th ed. of Millar's work.
- John Vidmar, English Catholic Historians And The English Reformation, 1585-1954 (Sussex Academic, 2005). A rather concise survey.
- Thomas G. Weinandy et al., eds., Aquinas On Scripture: An Introduction To His Biblical Commentaries (T. & T. Clark, 2005). Metacommentary, as it were.
- Niles Eldredge, Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life (Norton, 2005). Illustrated companion to the Darwin exhibition.