This week's (belated) acquisitions

(A bit under the weather, thanks to a code in the node.  I'll finish up Father Godfrey when I'm less groggy.)

• George Bourne, Lorette: The History of Louise, Daughter of a Canadian Nun, Exhibiting the Interior of Female Convents (Waugh and Innes, 1836).  First UK edition of a popular anti-Catholic text.  (eBay)
• Charles Elliot Bickersteth, Popular Religious Tales for the Home, the Social Circle and Sunday School (Simpkin, Marshall, n.d.).  Big anthology derived from tract literature and other "improving" tales.  (eBay)
• T. R. Wright, The Religion of Humanity: The Impact of Comtean Positivism on Victorian Britain (Cambridge, 1986).  Paperback reprint of this important study, which examines positivism's influence on figures like George Eliot. (Amazon [secondhand])