The Earnestness of Being Important
P.N. Furbank, 19 August 1982
John Buchan: A Memoir
by William Buchan.
Buchan and Enright, 272 pp., £9.95, May 1982,0 907675 03 4 Show More
by William Buchan.
Buchan and Enright, 272 pp., £9.95, May 1982,
The Best Short Stories of John Buchan. Vol. II
edited by David Daniell.
Joseph, 240 pp., £8.50, June 1982,9780718121211 Show More
edited by David Daniell.
Joseph, 240 pp., £8.50, June 1982,
“... The nice thing about John Buchan is that he was on the side of books. He thought, it is true, that he ought to have been a Guardian, shaping the Empire, or dominating Cabinets, or, at worst, ‘a power behind the throne’. However, after his spell in Milner’s ‘Kindergarten’, the nation didn’t seem to want him in the Guardian line, so he did the next best thing and became an entertainer ... ”