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If “Heaven and earth alike are chronometers,” as Christina Rosetti mused in Time Flies: A Reading Diary, Krista Lysack explores the intimate, lived contours of these timescales, particularly as encountered—and constructed—through Victorian devotional reading practices. Lysack’s approach thus resonates with recent works exploring the temporal dimensions of reading in the preceding century, for instance, Christina Lupton’s Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century and Amit S. Yahav’s Feeling Time: Duration, the Novel, and Eighteenth-Century Sensibility. Chronometres’s final turn expands Lysack’s implicit arguments regarding the materiality of devotional practice, examining the ways in which gift books and “textbooks” governed readers’ engagements with time. Havergal’s “miniature textbooks” provide an extended case study: four devotional poetry books named for different plants—Grasses, Fern Fronds, Seaweeds, and Rose Petals (Lysack includes images of each cover).