This Week's Acquisitions

• Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere, ed. Miriam Elizabeth Burstein (Victorian Secrets, 2013).  One of the nineteenth century's biggest bestsellers, which you are all racing out to buy this very moment.  (Editor's copy)
• Flora Annie Steel, On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny (HP, 1897).  Most famous of the Victorian novels about the Indian Mutiny.  (eBay)
• Hilary M. Carey, God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British Atlantic World, c. 1801-1908 (Cambridge, 2011).  Study of missionary/pastoral work across the denominations and their relationship to imperial expansion.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Ciaran Brady, James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet (Oxford, 2013).  New biographical study arguing for Froude's significance as a Victorian "sage,"  beyond his work as a historian.  (Amazon)