This Week's Acquisitions
- Helen Humphreys, The Frozen Thames (McClelland and Stewart, 2007). Collection of short-shorts about exactly what it says on the title: days when the Thames froze over, from the twelfth century to the late nineteenth (with an epilogue by Virginia Woolf). (Amazon [secondhand])
- Robert Bellarmine, On Natural and Spiritual Authority (Liberty Fund, 2012). Three controversial works by St. Robert Bellarmine, a leading figure in the clash between Protestants and Catholics during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; more about Bellarmine here. (Liberty Fund)