Front matter
Reading edition
ROMANCES
John Burnet of Barns
A Lost Lady of Old Years
The Half-Hearted
Prester John
Salute to Adventurers
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Power-House
Greenmantle
SHORT STORIES
Grey Weather
The Watcher by the Threshold
The Moon Endureth
ESSAYS
Scholar-Gipsies
Some Eighteenth-Century Byways
POLITICS AND TRAVEL
The African Colony
A Lodge in the Wilderness
The Taxation of Foreign Income
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
A History of Brasenose College
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Marquis of Montrose
Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall
A History of the War (in course of publication).
POEMS SCOTS AND ENGLISH
POEMS SCOTS AND ENGLISH
BY JOHN BUCHAN
Dulces ... reminiscitur Argos —Virgil
T. C. & E. C. JACK, LIMITED LONDON AND EDINBURGH 1917
Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
TO MY BROTHER ALASTAIR BUCHAN LIEUTENANT, ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS WHO FELL AT ARRAS ON EASTER MONDAY 1917 UNDER HIS COUNTRY’S TRIUMPHING FLAG
Since there are many variants of our northern speech, it seems fitting to say that the Scots pieces in this little collection are written in the vernacular which is spoken in the hill country of the Lowlands, from the Cheviots to Galloway. Scots has never been to me a book-tongue; I could always speak it more easily than I could write it; and I dare to hope that the faults of my verses, great as they are, are not those of an antiquarian exercise.
J. B.