This Week's Acquisitions

• Alice Somerton, The Torn Bible; Or, Hubert's Best Friend (RTS, n.d.).  Mostly set in India.  It was reprinted a few years ago by a Christian press, but appears to be gone again.
• Emma Jane Worboise, Helen Bury; Or, the Errors of My Early Life (Binns and Goodwin, [1850]).  First ed. of one of Worboise's early novels, a fictional autobiography of a young woman's narrow escape from Roman Catholicism (among other things).  Two of Worboise's novels can be downloaded here.
• Harriet Martineau, Illustrations of Political Economy: Selected Tales, ed. Deborah Logan (Broadview, 2004).  Four tales, plus context and reviews. For more on Martineau, see her entry in Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society; you can also search part of her correspondence.
• George Walker, The Vagabond, ed. W. M. Verhoeven (Broadview, 2004).  Anti-Jacobin novel. Brief biographical sketch of Walker here.
• Charles Lucas, The Infernal Quixote, ed. M. O. Grenby (Broadview, 2004). Yet another anti-Jacobin novel, partly set during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

• Sheri Holman, A Stolen Tongue (Atlantic Monthly, 1997).  Historical novel inspired by the travels of a real fifteenth-century friar.
• Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). Alternative history in which Charles Lindbergh becomes President.

• Andrew L. Drummond and James Bulloch, The Church in Victorian Scotland 1843-74 (Saint Andrew's, 1975).  Account of events after the Great Disruption.
• Richard Barber, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief (Harvard, 2004).  Intellectual history of the Grail legend from the twelfth century to the present.