gous Macwan" By John Buchan (Hodder & Stoughton. 7s" 6d)
The joke about John Macnab that he never really existed,.but three very eminent persons, one Attorney-General, a famous banker, and a young peer with a seat in the Cabinet, all thought it would be great fun if they wrote three letters to three separate Highland estates, informing the owners of their intention to poach on their reserves on definite dates. These letters they signed "John Macnab." The fact was that all three of them had lost their taste for life.
The world had been too much wit them, and so they came to the conclusion that the best way of recovering their old est would be to shoot stage on moors infested with irate mon in the most jealously guarded pools. Of the success and failure of the poaching efforts of these three gentlemen Mr. Buchan has written a most excellent story. Without any criminals to help him, he has kept the book on a key-note of excitement from be ning to end. His des ing can hardly be over-praised; the moors seem spread out at the reader's feet, and the fresh air comes whistling in his ears, but the illusion is won by no trickery, but by sheer, honest craftsmanship.
perhaps, this honestly and straightforwardness of Mr. Buchan's writing that has won him his many thousand readers. He may not be profound novelist, but he is a meritorious one, and be hes ware cause for pride in doing #0 well the thing he set out to do. would have solved more many of the problems that ecufronted them, 8 rib ies ite
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