This Week's Acquisitions
- Henry Frith, For Queen and King: Or, the Loyal 'Prentice. A Story of Old London (Cassell, 1885). Historical romance involving, at various times, the Earl of Essex, Guy Fawkes, and Arabella Stuart. The illustrations are by Frank Dadd.
- J. S. Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard (Stein & Day, 1968). A historical mystery, first published in 1863.
- Thomas Mallon, Two Moons: A Novel (Pantheon, 2000). Astronomers in the post-Civil War US seek moons and love.
- Jeannette Winterson, Weight (Canongate, 2005). Revisionist take on Atlas; part of the same series as the Atwood novella below.
- Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (Canongate, 2005). A new take on the Odyssey.
- Alice Munro, Selected Stories (Vintage, 1997). Collection of twenty-eight stories.
- Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Principles of Natural And Politic Law (LibertyFund, 2006). Another entry in the Natural Law & Enlightenment Classics series.
- Eighteen Sermons Intended to Establish the Inseparable Connection Between the Doctrines and Practice of Christianity and Eighteen Additional Sermons Intended to Establish the Inseparable Connection Between the Doctrines and Practice of Christianity (Rivingtons, 1822-23). Thirty-six anonymous Anglican sermons, apparently intended to shore up the CofE.
- Church Association Tracts, vols. 3 and 4 (various p., various d.). Incomplete collection of anti-Catholic and anti-Ritualist tracts by numerous authors (including, I see, my old friend Emily Sarah Holt). This may be someone's bound personal collection. The Church Association (now the Church Society) is still alive and well; you can see a full listing for this series of tracts at their website.
- Gerald Parsons, Religion in Victorian Britain: Traditions (St. Martin's, 1989). Part of a multivolume Open University set.