Book Description

The Moon Endureth, subtitled 'Tales and Fancies', is a 1912 short story and poetry collection by the Scottish author John Buchan.TitleIn 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."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)..........ohn Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during World War I. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction. In 1935, King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, appointed Buchan to replace the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General of Canada, for which purpose Buchan was raised to the peerage. He occupied the post until his death in 1940.Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom.