No 30/ Spring 2004

'The Immortal Memory': The London Burns Club, 25 January 1918, by Lt-Col John Buchan

The Horace Club, by Michael and Isobel Haslett

Evil's soft touch: The Three Hostages, BBC Radio 4, by Paul Bailey

John Buchan at the Douglas Library, by Heather Home

The corridors of Parkside: Nelsons in the 1950s, by John Kinross

RETROSPECTIVE: THE JOHN BUCHAN SOCIETY 1979-2004

• Letter from Lord Tweedsmuir, 1979
• Letter from Lord Tweedsmuir, 2004
• The Memory of John Buchan, by Eileen Stewart
• Twenty-five years of the John Buchan Society, by Eileen Stewart
• Letters on John Buchan
• Publishing on John Buchan: The John Buchan Journal since 1980, by Kate Macdonald

Notes and Queries

• erratum re Stone of Scone
• Tolkien and Buchan: barmy theory
• the 4th film version of The Thirty-Nine Steps

Current Research

• new link to National Archives of Scotland
• article on JB in New Criterion

Book News

• new work on criminals in England, by Society member Neil Davie (in French)
• spy supplement in Intelligence and National Security
• Niall Ferguson and Empire
• 1916 review of Greenmantle, from Punch