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])