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John Buchan
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Before discussing John Macnab, which is a very different type of adventure from the others, a Buchan chronicler must fairly state the confusion of dates which this book involves. The copyright of this book is plainly 1925 and it appears just as plainly to record certain events in Scotland between July and September, 1924. The Higher Criticism will, however, just as plainly show that the copyright date of the book is an error. The events it records occurred definitely from July to September, 1929. In The Island of Sheep, Peter John Hannay is indisputably in his fourteenth year, which fixes the date as 1933. Lord Clanroyden clearly refers to the events in The Courts of the Morning as having been 'two years ago,' namely, 1930-31. In The Courts of the Morning Archibald Roylance is on his honeymoon which occurred the winter after John Macnab.
The story itself is a light and a delightful one, but it has three important contributions to make to the whole saga. It gives us our only full-length picture of the fascinating Charles Merkland, Lord Lamancha. It introduces us to Janet Raden.
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