This Week's Acquisitions

• Patrick McGrath, Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now (Bloomsbury USA, 2005).  Three hauntings (of various varieties), some past, some present. 
• Sarah Waters, The Night Watch (Riverhead, 2006).  Waters, best known for her gender-bending neo-Victorian gothics, here ventures into WWII.
• Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch (Regan, 2005).  Sequel to Wicked, Maguire's revisionist take on the Wizard of Oz. 
• James Begg, A Handbook of Popery: Or, Text-book of Missions for the Conversion of Romanists; Being Papal Rome Tested by Scripture, History, and Its Recent Workings (Johnstone & Hunter, 1852).  A how-to guide for evangelicals out to convert their Catholic brethren.  Begg, a minister of the Free Church, also edited The Bulwark.  There's a photograph of Begg (with three other ministers) at the Getty. 
• The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, 3rd ser., vol. 15 (Jan.-June 1888).  Bound volume of the popular Anglican magazine edited by novelist Charlotte Yonge.