This Week's Acquisitions
- Louis Couperus, Eline Vere, trans. Ina Rilke (Archipelago, 2010). New translation of Couperus' 1889 novel about a young Dutch woman who finds herself increasingly frustrated by the confines of married life. (Amazon [secondhand])
- The Child's Companion and Juvenile Instructor (1856). Bound volume of this Religious Tract Society children's periodical. (eBay)
- Bound collection of tracts by Charles Henry Mackintosh (all G. Morrish). A privately-bound set of tracts about sin, salvation, the Bible, etc. by Mackintosh, a member of the Plymouth Brethren. This was a gift to a nurse from somebody named Bligh (no, not that one). (eBay)
- Lionel Adey, Class and Idol in the English Hymn (University of British Columbia, 1988). Transatlantic study of nineteenth- and early twentieth century hymnals that attempts to identify who sang what when and where. (eBay)
- Susan Drain, The Anglican Church in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Hymns Ancient and Modern (1860-1875) (Edwin Mellen, 1989). Analyzes the publishing history, dissemination, and significance of the Anglican hymnal Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). (Amazon [secondhand])
- G.F.A. Best, Temporal Pillars: Queen Anne's Bounty, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the Church of England (Cambridge, 1964). History of the expanding functions of Queen Anne's Bounty, a fund initially intended to assist impoverished Anglican priests. (Amazon [secondhand])