This Week's Acquisitions

• Jose Saramago, The Double (Harcourt, 2004).  Man watches video, sees doppelganger, pursues same. 
• Myla Goldberg, Wickett's Remedy: A Novel (Doubleday, 2005).  A woman's experiences during the influenza epidemic of 1918.
• The British Pulpit: A Collection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Divines of the Present Day (Thomas Tegg, 1844).  Third volume of six.
• The Pulpit 6 (1826).  Disbound volume of sermons, plus ecclesiastical news. 
• The Evangelical Pulpit; Or Christian's Weekly Magazine 1 (1824).  Same as above. 
• George Nugee, Conversion: A Sermon, Preached at S. Matthias, Stoke Newington, in Aid of the London Diocesan Penitentiary, on the Feast of the Conversion of S. Paul, 1857 (John Henry and James Parker, 1857).  You'll be glad to know that some people suspect that Nugee is haunting his former residence, Wymering Manor. 
• Charles Thomas Longley, A Sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of St. Dunstan, Fleet-Street, on Monday, May 11, 1840 (n.p., 1840).  Longley was eventually Archbishop of Canterbury. 
• Alexander Heriot Mackonochie, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord": A sermon preached before the University of Oxford, at the Church of St. Mary-the-Virgin on Advent Sunday, December 1st, 1867 (A. R. Mowbray, 1867).  Mackonochie, a very High Church Anglican, got in trouble for ritualism; see this memoir for further information.
• John Madley, The Reformation, Its Nature, Its Necessity, and Its Benefits: A Sermon, Preached in the Cathedral of Christ Church, Fredericton, on Sunday, February 14, 1847 (Henry J. Wallis; Francis and John Rivington, 1847).  A bit of a contrast to the higher churchmen, above. 

Comments

[David Thayer]

The Double was a wonderful read.

[Rebecca]

Sigh. I had no acquisitions this week...