This Week's Acquisitions

• Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests (Riverhead, 2014).  In interbellum England, a woman and her mother take in lodgers (or, to use the more genteel term, "paying guests") with ultimately disastrous results.  (Amazon)
• Authentic Report of the Great Protestant Meeting, Held at the Shire Hall,  Hereford, on Wednesday, 9th Sept. 1835, by the Hereford Protestant Association, for Making Known, from Authentic Documents, the Real Tenets of Popery, as Now Held by the Roman Catholic Bishops and Priests of Ireland, Contrasted with the Principles of Protestantism, as Maintained by the Established Church of England and Ireland (C. F. Cock, 1835).  The title says it all, really.  Report from an early meeting of the Protestant Association in Hereford, which had been founded in July 1835; the organization died in 1843 after the bishop got grumpy, apparently.   (eBay)