This Week's Acquisitions

• E. Lynn Linton, The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and Communist, 6th ed. (Chatto & Windus, [1874]).  By far the most successful of the agnostic Linton's novels.  A man who may or may not be Christ reincarnated tries to live according to the true principles of the gospels, only to wind up murdered; the novel is narrated by a follower tellingly named "John."   The VWWP has an e-text of the 1872 edition; some background on Linton here and here. 
• Mrs. [Margaret] Oliphant, Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years  Ago (Macmillan and Co., 1895).  One of Mrs. Oliphant's few historical novels.  There's a website devoted to her work; see also the overview of her life at the Victorian Web. 
• David Mitchell, Ghostwritten: A Novel (Vintage, 2001).  Mitchell's first novel.
• Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise (Knopf, 2006). Nemirovsky's unfinished novel about the occupation of France. 
• John Henry Blunt, The Real Presence: A Sermon (Rivingtons, 1853).  Apparently, Blunt got into trouble over transubstantiation; the sermon is intended to clarify his position.  Blunt's Annotated Book of Common Prayer is available from Project Canterbury; brief biography here. 
• Hugo Grotius, Commentary on the Law of Prize And Booty (LibertyFund, 2006).  Another entry in the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series. 
• Peter Fritzche, Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (Harvard, 2004).  Theories of history and temporality, post-French Revolution.
• Linda Zionkowski, Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).  Gendered concepts of authorship in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Comments

[bob]

At the Strand tonight I saw a book of poems by Abraham Burstein, published 1930. Is he your grandfather, and do you want me to buy it for you?

[Miriam]

Thanks for the offer, but no relation.