John Buchan's Uncollected Journalism a Critical and Bibliographic Investigation
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JOHN BUCHAN’S UNCOLLECTED JOURNALISM A CRITICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION PART II CATALOGUE OF BUCHAN’S UNCOLLECTED JOURNALISM PART II CATALOGUE OF BUCHAN’S UNCOLLECTED JOURNALISM Volume One INTRODUCTION............................................................................................. 1 A: LITERATURE AND BOOKS…………………………………………………………………….. 11 B: POETRY AND VERSE…………………………………………………………………………….. 30 C: BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIRS, AND LETTERS………………………………………………… 62 D: HISTORY………………………………………………………………………………………………. 99 E: RELIGION……………………………………………………………………………………………. 126 F: PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE………………………………………………………………… 130 G: POLITICS AND SOCIETY……………………………………………………………………… 146 Volume Two H: IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS……………………………………………………… 178 I: WAR, MILITARY, AND NAVAL AFFAIRS……………………………………………….. 229 J: ECONOMICS, BUSINESS, AND TRADE UNIONS…………………………………… 262 K: EDUCATION……………………………………………………………………………………….. 272 L: THE LAW AND LEGAL CASES………………………………………………………………. 278 M: TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION……………………………………………………………… 283 N: FISHING, HUNTING, MOUNTAINEERING, AND OTHER SPORTS………….. 304 PART II CATALOGUE OF BUCHAN’S UNCOLLECTED JOURNALISM INTRODUCTION This catalogue has been prepared to assist Buchan specialists and other scholars of all levels and interests who are seeking to research his uncollected journalism. It is based on the standard reference work for Buchan scholars, Robert G Blanchard’s The First Editions of John Buchan: A Collector’s Bibliography (1981), which is generally referred to as Blanchard. The catalogue builds on this work by including an additional 100 items which have come to light since Blanchard was originally published, and by providing more detailed information in a format specifically designed to aid researchers. In particular, it divides Buchan’s essays into various categories by subject- matter and summarises the contents of every article and review, features which have not previously been available to scholars. Blanchard’s original work is divided into five parts. Sections A-C deal with books and pamphlets written by Buchan, works edited by him, and his contributions to other books. Section D contains his uncollected contributions to periodicals and public documents, while section E lists his contributions to the Spectator. It is these last two sections, D and E, which form the starting point for researchers into Buchan’s uncollected journalism, and accordingly they form the basis of this catalogue. Blanchard included in these sections sixteen articles subsequently collected or published elsewhere, seventeen letters, a considerable number of lectures, speeches and addresses, four poems, three short stories, and two Transvaal Ordinances, which were prepared with Buchan’s participation while he was working as Private Secretary to Lord Milner in South Africa. All of these have been excluded here on the basis that the catalogue is intended to cover only essays and reviews which Buchan wrote specifically for journals and newspapers, and which have not subsequently been reprinted in collected editions or elsewhere. Blanchard’s bibliography excluded Buchan’s contributions to the Scottish Review between February 1907 and December 1908, which were subsequently collected in Comments and Characters (1940), and his writing for Nelson’s History of the War (1915-19), later revised and condensed in A History of the Great War (four volumes 1921-22). Blanchard referred to Buchan’s columns as ‘Auspex’ for the Spectator under the title ‘A Spectator’s Notebook’ from 2 January to 19 March 1932, but omitted to mention his regular contributions as ‘Atticus’ for the Sunday Times under the title ‘Men, Women and Memories’ (June 1932 – September 1935), although both of 1 these columns were known to Buchan scholars at the time. Blanchard also did not identify a little- known monthly diary that I discovered during my researches, which Buchan wrote for the magazine English Life under the title ‘English Tidings’ between September 1926 and November 1927 (see pages 9-10 for details). All of these columns usually contained a number of short items which tended to be more lightweight, even gossipy, compared with Buchan’s longer, more serious journalism, which forms the basis of this catalogue, and I have therefore excluded them. After all of these omissions and exclusions, what remains from Blanchard sections D and E as the basis for the catalogue is the very substantial number of articles and reviews that Buchan wrote for the Spectator and other magazines and newspapers which have not subsequently been reprinted. The vast majority of Buchan’s articles for the Spectator, and many of those for other journals, were unsigned. In the introduction to section E of his bibliography Blanchard explains that Buchan’s articles for the Spectator were identified as a result of meticulous research in the journal’s archives by its librarian, Charles Seaton (201). However, the shorter pieces, often only a paragraph in length, which Buchan regularly contributed to the News and Review sections of the Spectator, could not be reliably identified and were excluded from Blanchard, and hence from this catalogue. Blanchard does not explain how the unsigned pieces in section D of his bibliography were identified, but nothing in my researches or in the style, tone, and content of the articles has provided any reason to doubt that they were indeed written by Buchan, with the exception of ‘The Judgment of Posterity’ (see H18). Therefore, subject to this single exception, I have accepted that all the unsigned articles attributed to Buchan by Blanchard in his bibliography were indeed written by Buchan. All articles actually signed or initialled by him are noted as such in the catalogue. Since Blanchard was originally published in 1981, a number of additional articles and reviews by Buchan have come to light. My researches uncovered a total of 100 such items, which I have included in the catalogue. They are listed separately at the end of this introduction (see pages 6- 9), divided into three principal sources: (i) From the Times Literary Supplement. Since Blanchard was published the Times Literary Supplement online archive has become available, which has identified from the paper’s internal records thirty items written by Buchan that were originally published unsigned, and accordingly were not identified by Blanchard. I have accepted the paper’s authentication of Buchan as the author of these articles. (ii) From The War. This was a short-lived and little-known Nelson’s magazine, which was published between August 1914 and March 1915. Buchan’s contributions to it were 2 first brought to light by Kate Macdonald in her 2007 essay ‘Translating Propaganda: John Buchan’s Writing during the First World War’ (181-87). I have included thirty- three items from this magazine in the catalogue. The majority are signed by Buchan; the seven that are unsigned were authenticated by Macdonald from letters or manuscript evidence in the Nelson’s archive. (iii) From Other Sources. Buchan’s scrapbooks, available on microfilm at the National Library of Scotland, contain cuttings of a number of his articles from various magazines and newspapers which were omitted by Blanchard. I have included all those that I was able to identify, together with other items which I discovered from books and articles during my researches1. All of the items are signed or initialled, with the exception of H15 ‘British Settlements in the New Colonies’, which was authenticated by Michael Redley from Buchan’s correspondence with the Spectator’s editor, St Loe Strachey (‘John Buchan and the South African War’ 69 and 231, note 30). In total the catalogue contains 1020 articles and reviews, including the 100 omitted by Blanchard. However, it should be noted that Buchan’s contributions to journals and newspapers were so numerous and varied throughout his career that no catalogue can be regarded as fully comprehensive. Further articles will almost certainly be discovered, while others, especially those unsigned, may never be identified. In the Preface to his bibliography Blanchard states that ‘it is designed to function as a working tool for the collector, dealer, and librarian’ (ix). It is, as its full title indicates, primarily ‘A Collector’s Bibliography’, and as such it presents several problems for the researcher which this catalogue seeks to overcome. Sections D and E in Blanchard do not always give full publication details of the articles, especially their volume and page numbers. As a result I have been unable to trace one of the articles listed by Blanchard (see C120). This catalogue provides the publication details of every article in standard MLA (Modern Language Association of America) format, which includes volume and page numbers. Where the item is a review rather than an article, this fact is stated and details are provided of the authors and titles of the books under discussion. Occasionally, a review is much shorter than Buchan’s normal length, and this is noted where appropriate. Perhaps the main drawback of Blanchard from a researcher’s point of view is that, although it lists the articles in each section in chronological order, it merely gives the title of the article without any further indication of its content. The title may give a clear idea of the theme of an article, but equally it may lead researchers into areas which are not really relevant to their enquiries. The 1 Here I am indebted to Kenneth Hillier, Chairman of the John Buchan Society, who provided me with copies of several articles