This Week's Acquisitions

Picts and Pitts come in Waves; Sermons, however, come in Lots. 

• Frederick Oakeley, Things Dispensable and Things Indispensable: The Importance of Distinguishing Between Them, with a View to True Conscientiousness and Christian Joy. Two Sermons, Preached in Margaret Chapel, St. Maryblebone, on Sundays the 10th and 17th of November, 1844 (James Toovey, 1844).  Preached about a year before Oakeley's conversion to Roman Catholicism.  Short biography at the Catholic Encyclopedia; a couple of hymns (including "O Come, All Ye Faithful") at the Cyberhymnal. 
• Robert Hussey, The Church from the Beginning Until Now.  A Sermon Preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, October 31, 1847, Before the University (John Henry Parker, 1847).  Hussey was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History.
• ---, The great contest: A sermon, preached in the cathedral of Christ Church, on Easter day, April 11, 1841 (John Henry Parker, 1841).  The title refers to Christ's Passion.
• R. Montgomery and H. Bedford, Extract from a Third Sermon on the Fifth Petition of the Lord's Prayer and The Safeguards of Faith.  Two sermons extracted from The Churchman's Pulpit no. 3 (Mar. 9, 1850).  Bedford converted to Catholicism in 1851. 
• Charles Smith Bird, Commemoration of the Fifth of November: A sermon, preached at Trinity Church, Reading, November 5, 1839 (Hatchards and Nisbet, 1839).  Anti-Catholic sermon; author's presentation copy.  Smith Bird was later Vicar of Gainsborough.
• Charles A. Heurtley, The Lord's day: the blessings consequent upon its due observance: A sermon, preached before the University of Oxford on Sunday, November 4, 1855 (J. H. and J. Parker, 1856).  Heurtley was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
• A. H. 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 (Mowbray, 1867).  Prominent (and frequently prosecuted) Anglo-Catholic.  An 1890 biography is available at Project Canterbury; see also the account at his church.  Don't miss this truly horrifying elegy by the infamous W. T. McGonagall. 
• Henry Hayman, Peace, God's Gift, and How to Use It.  A Sermon Preached in the Temple Church, on the Second Sunday after Easter, 1856 (William Skeffington, 1856).  Hayman went on to become Rector of St. Cuthbert, Aldingham. 
• William Jacobson, Truth and peace: A sermon preached before the University of Oxford at St. Mary's, on Sunday, June 20, 1847, being the day on which Her Majesty began her happy reign (Francis Macpherson, 1847).  Jacobson shortly became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford and then Bishop of Chester.  Very brief account at the King's College London College Archives; portrait by Lewis Carroll at the NPG.
• William J. E. Bennett, Apostacy: A sermon, in reference to a late event at S. Paul's, Knightsbridge, preached on the twenty-second Sunday after Trinity, 1847, 6th ed. (W. J. Cleaver, 1847).  Another Anglo-Catholic who got in regular trouble.  Biography at Project Canterbury, along with a few sermons.
• J. M. Neale, The Blessing of Isaac.  A Sermon Preached on the Fourth Sunday after Easter, 1864, at S. Thomas the Martyr's, Oxford (Mowbray, 1864).  Probably the best-known author in this group of sermons.  Brief account by James Kiefer; numerous texts at Project Canterbury; hymns at the Cyberhymnal. 
• John Sinclair, On Hearing the Word of God Preached. A Sermon, Preached at the Special Service in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, on Sunday Evening, April 17, 1859 (Gilbert and Rivington, 1859). Sinclair was Archdeacon of Middlesex and the son of Sir John Sinclair. 
• George H. Wilkinson, Thoughts on Calvary.  The Substance of Two Good Friday Addresses (Wells Gardner, 1882).  Wilkinson was Bishop of Truro and later of St. Andrews.  Photograph and brief biographical sketch at Paul Frecker London; Vanity Fair caricature at the NPG. 
• Walter Farquhar Hook, Take Heed What Ye Hear.  A Sermon, with a Preface on Some of the Existing Controversies in the Church (F. & J. Rivington, 1844).  Publisher's presentation copy.  Hook was Vicar of Leeds, then Dean of Chichester.  Biographical sketch at Leodis; interest in choral music at Discovering Leeds; portrait at the NPG. 
• ---, The Catholicism of the Anglican Church and Its Branches: A Sermon, Preached in the Episcopal Chapel at Stirling, on Sunday, March 20th, 1825, at the Consecration of Bishop Luscombe (T. Harrison, 1844).  Reprint of an early sermon, probably for its topicality.
• ---, The sin and danger of lukewarmness: A sermon, preached at the opening of the nave of the parish church of Leamington Priors, on Thursday, the ninth of May, 1844, new ed. (T. Harrison, 1844).  Ah, but at which church? (This one, which was being renovated at about this time?)
• Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany (1867-68).  Two volumes in one.  Ex-libris of well-known book collectors Anne and F. G. Renier. 
• F. D. Maurice, Theological Essays, 2nd ed. (Macmillan, 1853).  A controversial work by one of the most famous theologians and educators of the Victorian period.  Brief biographies by James Kiefer and the NNDB; portraits at the NPG. 
• ---, Sketches of contemporary authors, 1828 (Archon, 1970).  Reprints articles that Maurice wrote for the Athenaeum on Wordsworth, Scott, etc.
• Juliet Barker, Wordsworth: A Life (Ecco, 2005).  New biography.
• Timothy Lang, The Victorians and the Stuart Heritage: Interpretations of a Discordant Past (Cambridge, 1995).  Victorian historians on seventeenth-century religion, politics, social life, etc.

Comments

[Cath]

I accidently came across Gladstone's annotated copy of Maurice at St Deiniol's Library recently - mostly positive comments. He had dated it 1876, though, wonder why it would have taken him that long to get round to reading it?

Have you been to St. Deiniol's while visiting the UK? It is very strong on nineteenth-century theology for obvious reasons and it's always fun to come across Gladstone's hand. Wonderfully quiet place to work too.

[Miriam]

I've not gone to St. Deiniol's yet, but I really should, I know--quite possibly on my next jaunt.