This Week's Acquisitions

• Mrs. [Mary] Bennett, The Jew's Daughter; Or, the Witch of the Water-Side (Milner and Company, n.d.).  Novel about the Jewish experience in thirteenth-century England.
• George MacDonald, St. George and St. Michael (Routledge, n.d.).  Novel about the beginnings of the English Civil War. 
• Richard Dorment, British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986). Museum catalogue.
• Warwick Elwin, Confession and Absolution in the Bible: A Study of the Evidences of Holy Scripture Upon the Doctrine of Penance; Its Progressive Revelation and Subsequent Practice (J. T. Hayes, 1883).  Anglo-Catholic text dedicated to R. W. Enraght.
• W[illiam] Taylor, The Election of Grace (Phillips & Hunt/Walden & Stowe, n.d. [1868]).  Discussion of Calvinist doctrine by a popular Methodist missionary.
• David Hempton, Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale, 2005). History of Methodism from the beginnings to the present. 
• William Robbins, The Newman Brothers: An Essay in Comparative Intellectual Biography (Harvard, 1966).  Study of John Henry and Francis Newman. 
• Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace, 3 vols.  (Liberty Fund, 2005).  New edition of Grotius' pioneering treatise on international law. 

Comments

[George]

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the Hempton book, when you get to it.