This Week's Acquisitions

• Emily Sarah Holt, One Snowy Night; Or, Long Ago at Oxford (Shaw, n.d.). German evangelists come to England in the twelfth century, don't fare so well. (For that matter, this copy didn't fare so well in its transatlantic voyage. It seems to have gone from "reading copy" to "read at your own peril copy.")

• The Rescue: A Story of the Huguenots (RTS, [1880]). Children's story about Jeanne of Navarre and the persecution of the Huguenots.

• [Deborah Alcock], Under the Southern Cross: A Tale of the New World (Nelson, 1900). Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century.

• John Griesemer, Signal & Noise (Picador, 2004). Historical novel. All sorts of interesting things happen to a group of men setting up the transatlantic telegraph cable.

• Thomas Milner, The History of England (RTS, [1853]). English history through 1852.

• Steven Parissien, George IV: Inspiration of the Regency (St. Martin's, 2001). Biography emphasizing George IV's importance as a cultural patron.

• John Worthen, The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802 (Yale, 2001). Group biography focusing on a transitional period in the Wordsworth circle's artistic and emotional lives.