This Week's Acquisitions
- William Alexander, My Uncle the Baillie (Tuckwell, 1995). Reprint of a nineteenth-century Scottish social satire, originally published as a newspaper serial in the Free Press. Alexander, a journalist, went on to become a successful editor; more information at Slainte.
- Neal Stephenson, The Confusion (William Morrow, 2004). Vol. 2 of the Baroque Cycle.
- ---, The System of the World (William Morrow, 2004). Vol. 3 of the Baroque Cycle.
- David Cecil, Max: A Biography (Constable, 1964). Classic (authorized) biography of Max Beerbohm. Inherited from a departing colleague. (The book, not Beerbohm.)
- Susan Heuck Allen, Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik (U of California, 1999). Rather a Darwin-Wallace situation, if you will (although, as Dad the Emeritus Historian of Graeco-Roman Egypt points out, Calvert was much more hapless than Wallace). Inherited from DtEHoGRE. (The book, not...oh, never mind.)
- W. G. Blaikie et al., Present Day Tracts on Subjects of Christian Evidence, Doctrine, and Morals (RTS, [1885]). Includes tracts by Blaikie, A. H. Sayce, J. Murray Mitchell, J. Radford Thomson, William Arthur, and William Muir.
- The British Pulpit: A Collection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Divines of the Present Day, vol. V (Tegg, 1844). Fifty-nine sermons. (This is the third volume I now own in this series, and it's as discombobulated as the other two--even though many of the pages were never cut. Either someone threw it across the room on a fairly frequent basis, or the binding is just crummy.)
- Charles Simeon and Jean Claude, Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon; With Notes and Illustrations, Together with One Hundred Skeletons, Being the Substance of Sermons Preached Before the University, new ed. (S. Cornish and T. Allen, 1837). Instruction manual for sermon-writing, plus outlines.
- John C. Miller, "Subjection: no, not for an hour": A warning to Protestant Christians, in behalf of the "truth of the gospel," as now imperilled by the Romish doctrines ... on Sunday evening, September 8, 1850, 4th ed. (T. Hatchard; Seeleys; Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1850). Anti-ritualist sermon.
- William Dodsworth, Romanism Successfully Opposed Only on Catholic Principles: A Sermon, 2nd ed. (James Burns, 1839). Tractarian anti-Catholicism in action.
- Anna Johnston, Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 (Cambridge, 2003). Another entry in the debate about Christian missionaries and their relationship to colonialism.