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The Moon Endureth

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The Moon Endureth
First edition 1912
AuthorJohn Buchan
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story and poetry collection
Set inVarious
PublisherW Blackwood & Sons[1]
Publication date
1912[1]
Media typePrint
Pages324[1]

The Moon Endureth, subtitled 'Tales and Fancies', is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan.[2]

Title

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In an introduction to the collection Buchan quotes from an article on St Francis in Lives of the Saints: "To the righteous is promised abundance of peace while the moon endureth". Psalms 72:7 in the King James Version has "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth".

Content

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The collection includes the following short stories and poems. The stories Streams of Water in the South and The Rime of True Thomas were reprinted from a former collection, Grey Weather. The remaining tales had all previously appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.[3]

  • From the Pentlands Looking North and South (poem)
  • I. The Company of the Marjolaine (short story)
    • "Avignon" (poem)
  • II. A Lucid Interval (short story)
    • "The Shorter Catechism" (poem)
  • III. The Lemnian (short story)
    • "Atta's Song" (poem)
  • IV. Space (short story)
    • "Stocks and Stones" (poem)
  • V. Streams of Water in the South (short story)
    • "The Gipsy's Song to the Lady Cassilis" (poem)
  • VI. The Grove of Ashtaroth (short story)
    • "Wood Magic" (poem)
  • VII. The Riding of Ninemileburn (short story)
    • "Plain Folk" (poem)
  • VIII. The Kings of Orion (short story)
    • "Babylon" (poem)
  • IX. The Green Glen (short story)
    • "The Wise Years" (poem)
  • X. The Rime of True Thomas (short story)

Critical reception

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In its review of the first edition The Athenaeum noted "a marked leaning towards the mysterious and bizarre". The collection was said to show "considerable imagination, and occasionally a touch of delicate satire".[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. ^ Buchan, John (1912). The Moon Endureth. W Blackwood & Sons. British Library catalogue entry
  3. ^ Hathi catalogue entry. Retrieved 15 December 2016. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ Athenaeum review quoted in Lownie, Andrew (2013). John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier. Thistle Publishing. pp. 116–117. ISBN 978-1909609990.
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