This Week's Acquisitions
- J. M. Callwell, A Champion of the Faith: A Tale of Prince Hal and the Lollards (Blackie, n.d.). Sir John Oldcastle and company. (With a hilariously inappropriate cover, incidentally, showing late Victorian boys in sailor garb!)
- F. D. Maurice, The Prayer Book: Considered Especially in Reference to the Romish System; The Lord's Prayer (Macmillan, 1880). Two-in-one collection of Maurice's sermons at Lincoln's Inn.
- Muriel Spark, The Finishing School (Doubleday, 2004). Creative writers clash.
- David W. Kling, The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times (Oxford, 2004). Role played by Biblical verses in structuring political and social debates.
- Alan F. Segal, Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religon (Doubleday, 2004). Just where are we going, anyway?
- Thomas Bokenkotter, A Concise History of the Catholic Church, rev. ed. (Doubleday, 2004). From the beginnings to the present day.
- Judith Flanders, Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England (Norton, 2003). A guided tour of the home and its contents.
- Susan Casteras and Colleen Denney, eds., The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England (Yale, 1996). Study of the famous gallery's exhibitors, management, etc.
- Robert E. Lougy, Inaugural Wounds: The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century English Narratives (Ohio, 2004). Partly a critique of historicist criticism; yet another book to review for Choice.
- Christopher Hibbert, Disraeli: A Personal History (HarperCollins, 2004). Another notch on the prolific Hibbert's belt, this time a synthetic biography focusing on Dizzy's private life.