This Week's Acquisitions

  • The Weaver of Naumburg; Or, a City Saved by Children (RTS, n.d.).  Translation from the German of a historical novel about Hussites during a plague epidemic.  (eBay)
  • Patrick McGrath, The Wardrobe Mistress (Hutchinson, 2017).  During WWII, an actor dies at a particularly bleak moment, and his wife finds out details about his past that change everything.  (Amazon UK)
  • Catholic Progress, Vol. I (1872).  Bound volume of a Burns and Oates Catholic periodical, published for the YMCA--no, not that one, but the Young Men's Catholic Association.  Includes a couple of serialized historical novels.  (eBay)
  • Jeffrey Cox, Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940 (Stanford, 2002).  Intersections of imperialist ideologies and proselytization in the work of missionaries to India.  (Amazon [secondhand])