The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • "Frank Briton" [prob. John Kensit], By and By: A Thrilling Tale.  Deeply Interesting to Every Britisher Who Loveth Britain (John Kensit, c. 1888).  Lurid anti-Anglo-Catholic novel, featuring several chapters devoted to assaults on Gladstone.  Speaking of assault, the cover and frontispiece represent a young man preparing to slug a priest (which, in case you're wondering, the novel considers a good thing).    (eBay)
  • Simon Mawer, The Glass Room (Other Press, 2009).  Fate of a Czechoslovakian home and its inhabitants during and after WWII.  (Lift Bridge)
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