This Week's Acquisitions
- David Fortune, Robert Douglas, James Whitelaw, and Alexander Meal, Prize Temperance Tales (John S. Marr, 1871). Three prize-winning novellas and an essay from the Glasgow Young Men's Temperance Association, all about (of course) the dangers of drinking. (eBay)
- Henry Gibbs, A Long Probation (BL, n.d.). Reprint of an 1897 Catholic novel, set in France, England, and elsewhere, about the long-term disastrous effects of a secret marriage between a nobleman and a poor woman. (Amazon)
- Sebastian Barry, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (Penguin, 1998). After WWI, a young Irishman joins the Royal Irish Constabulary and finds himself under attack by the IRA. (Carriage Place)
- Rodney Engen, Pre-Raphaelite Prints: The Graphic Art of Millais, Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Their Followers (Lund Humphries, 1995). A study of Pre-Raphaelite engravings--reproductions, original works, book illustrations, etc. (eBay)