This Week's Acquisitions
- David Malouf, Ransom: A Novel (Pantheon, 2010). Achilles, Priam, and Hector's body. (Amazon [secondhand])
- John Burnside, The Glister (Talese, 2009). Creepy killings in a dying town. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Christian Opinion and Revisionist I (1882). What appears to be the full run of this weekly periodical, devoted to church news and, more importantly, commentary on the Revised Version (1881). This bound volume--well, it used to be a bound volume--originally belonged to Ezra Abbot. (eBay)
- The Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine, and Guide to Christian Truth X-XI (1856-57). Two volumes bound in one ("bound" is a courteous way of putting it...) of this Protestant monthly. I also own volume XIII. (eBay)