John Buchan’s

was published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1926, the same year as Buchan’s novel

. As its title suggests,

consists of a number of sermon-like as well as leisurely essays in which Buchan covers a range of topics: “Sir Walter Scott” (1924), “The Old and the New in Literature” (1925), “The Great Captains” (1920), “The Muse of History” (1914), “A Note on Edmund Burke” (1913), “Lord Balfour and English Thought” (1914), “The Two Ordeals of Democracy” (1925), “Literature and Topography” (1926), “The Judicial Temperament” (1922), “Style and Journalism” (1925), editorial extracts from

(1924), “The Literature of Tweeddale” (1925), and “Thoughts on a…

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Citation: Waddell, Nathan. "Homilies and Recreations". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 January 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=22850, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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