This Week's Acquisitions

• Louisa Baldwin and Lettice Galbraith, The Shadow on the Blind and Other Stories (Wordsworth, 2007).  Reprint of 1890s supernatural tales by two authors, one (Galbraith) otherwise virtually unknown.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Amelia B. Edwards, All Saints' Eve (Wordsworth, 2008).  Detective fiction.  Edwards is probably better known for her writings on Egypt--in fact, she founded what is now the Petrie Museum.  For more, see The Nile Muse and Heritage Key.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• William Hope Hodgson, The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder (Wordsworth, 2006).  Collection by an author much admired by H. P. Lovecraft.  See here for more background.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Kathe Koja, Under the Poppy: A Novel (Small Beer, 2010).  Historical novel that starts out in late-1870s Brussels, starring a pair of brothel keepers and a lascivious puppeteer.  (Amazon)
• A. W. N. Pugin, Contrasts (Leicester, 1969).  Reprint of Pugin's famed polemic against modern architecture.  Pugin's work is copiously illustrated at this Pugin page; see also the Pugin Foundation and the Pugin Society.  (eBay)
• Sean Farrell, Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784-1886 (Kentucky, 2009).  Catholic-Protestant conflicts.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• G. K. Behlmer, Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940 (Stanford, 1999).  History of efforts to monitor and legislate child-rearing practices.  (eBay)