Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Achilles and of the exploits of the ingenious Odysseus, history has drawn its heroes from the great. The mere nod of a mighty king was of more account to historians than all the people of his kingdom. The era of democracy in history has just begun, and evidently John Buchan is its prophet...
...John Buchan, as a writer, is a man of enormous power. As the author of adventure stories, such as Mr. Standfast and Greenmantle, he has already won wide recognition as a novelist. As a historian he bids fair to surpass Carlyle, both in the excellence of his style and on the merits of his prose...
...With Mr. Buchan are collaborating 120 men?men chosen because of their clear title to authority on the subject on which they write. These men are chosen judiciously. They are representative of learning in both its empirical and theoretical forms. Thus, it must be noted that the very long list contains such men as Hillaire Belloc, probably the greatest authority on military history in England; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale University, one of the foremost historians of the U. S., H. Pirie Gordon, Foreign Editor of The Times, London; Sir James Ren-nell Rodd, British diplomat of great experience; Andre...
This drizzly day, when the weather quarrels with Autumn and Winter and does not know to which it shall pay allegiance, I scarcely know what author to pick down from the shelves. As a matter of fact, I have been reading Midwinter, by John Buchan. What a rollicking tale! Of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Brobdingnagian Dr. Sam Johnson. But I have never met John Buchan. Who is there in America who can spin such a romance? George Barr Mc-Cutcheon? Robert W. Chambers? John Marquand? Some day when Stephen Vincent Benét turns his hand to romancing, perhaps he will...