This Week's Acquisitions
- Mrs. J. Sadlier, trans., A Vendetta, and Other Stories (D. Sadlier, 1862). Collection of French short stories published for the Catholic Youth's Library. (eBay)
- Mme. E. de Pressensé, Theresa's Journal (American Sunday School Union, 1868). Translation of a French Protestant diary novel about a young girl who suffers the usual trials and tribulations on the way to understanding true faith. (eBay)
- John Foster, Essays in a Series of Letters, 10th ed. (Holdsworth and Ball, 1833). Popular collection of moral and religious essays on topics such as evangelicalism. (eBay)
- Norman Vance, Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God (Oxford, 2013). Situates late-Victorian fictional experiments in Biblical reinterpretation in the context of shifting attitudes to Biblical inspiration. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)