This Week's Acquisitions

William Beckford, Azemia, ed. Robert Gemmett (Valancourt, 2010). One of Beckford's satires on contemporary fiction, first published in 1797. (Gift from the editor)
William Trevor, The Silence in the Garden (Penguin, 1989). Historical novel about a decaying upper-class Irish family and their dark secrets. (eBay)
Anglican Magazine for the Young, fifteen volumes (various, 1842-1872). As it says in the title. Includes fiction, moral essays, poetry, natural history, and the like. (eBay)
C. T. McIntire, England against the Papacy 1858-1861: Tories, Liberals, and the Overthrow of Papal Temporal Power During the Italian Risorgimento (Cambridge, 2008). Reprint of this 1983 study of how English politicians intervened on the side of the Risorgimento. (Amazon [secondhand])
Sarah S. G. Frantz and Katherine Rennhak, eds., Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000 (Lexington, 2009). Essay collection, focusing mainly on Anglo-American novelists. I'm reviewing it for Choice. (Review copy)