This Week's Acquisitions

• The Rev. R. Shittler, National Religion: Or, the Voice of God, to the British Church and Nation (Francis Baisler, 1838).  Sermons occasioned by the Reverend's sense of Britain's moral, religious, and political degeneracy. 
• Michael Chabon, The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (Fourth Estate, 2004). An unnamed Sherlock Holmes encounters a mute child who has escaped from the Nazis.

• Matthew Sturgis, Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography (Overlook, 1999). Biography of the famed Decadent illustrator.

• Paul Douglass, Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Life of the author of Glenarvon.