This Week's Acquisitions

• William Alexander, My Uncle the Baillie (Tuckwell, 1995).  Reprint of a nineteenth-century Scottish social satire, originally published as a newspaper serial in the Free Press.  Alexander, a journalist, went on to become a successful editor; more information at Slainte. 
• Neal Stephenson, The Confusion (William Morrow, 2004). Vol. 2 of the Baroque Cycle.
• ---, The System of the World (William Morrow, 2004).  Vol. 3 of the Baroque Cycle. 
• David Cecil, Max: A Biography (Constable, 1964).  Classic (authorized) biography of Max Beerbohm.  Inherited from a departing colleague.  (The book, not Beerbohm.)
• Susan Heuck Allen, Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik (U of California, 1999).  Rather a Darwin-Wallace situation, if you will (although, as Dad the Emeritus Historian of Graeco-Roman Egypt points out, Calvert was much more hapless than Wallace).  Inherited from DtEHoGRE.  (The book, not...oh, never mind.)
• W. G. Blaikie et al., Present Day Tracts on Subjects of Christian Evidence, Doctrine, and Morals (RTS, [1885]).  Includes tracts by Blaikie, A. H. Sayce, J. Murray Mitchell, J. Radford Thomson, William Arthur, and William Muir.
• The British Pulpit: A Collection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Divines of the Present Day, vol. V (Tegg, 1844).  Fifty-nine sermons.  (This is the third volume I now own in this series, and it's as discombobulated as the other two--even though many of the pages were never cut.  Either someone threw it across the room on a fairly frequent basis, or the binding is just crummy.)
• Charles Simeon and Jean Claude, Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon; With Notes and Illustrations, Together with One Hundred Skeletons, Being the Substance of Sermons Preached Before the University, new ed. (S. Cornish and T. Allen, 1837).  Instruction manual for sermon-writing, plus outlines. 
• John C. Miller, "Subjection: no, not for an hour": A warning to Protestant Christians, in behalf of the "truth of the gospel," as now imperilled by the Romish doctrines ... on Sunday evening, September 8, 1850, 4th ed. (T. Hatchard; Seeleys; Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1850).  Anti-ritualist sermon.
• William Dodsworth, Romanism Successfully Opposed Only on Catholic Principles:  A Sermon, 2nd ed. (James Burns, 1839).  Tractarian anti-Catholicism in action.
• Anna Johnston, Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 (Cambridge, 2003).  Another entry in the debate about Christian missionaries and their relationship to colonialism.

Comments

[Brandon]

I just noticed that it's a good thing you say "Emeritus Historian" rather than "Historian Emiritus"; otherwise you would end up talking about 'Dad tHE oGRE.'

[Jon Fernquest]

"Anna Johnston, Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 (Cambridge, 2003). Another entry in the debate about Christian missionaries and their relationship to colonialism."

Thank you for this one. (As of 1990-2005 the empire has shifted to indigenous minorities in nation states and the writing has shifted to the web.)