CANADA: New Viceroy; General Election

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We Present The Literary Works of JOHN BUCHAN

—The Brilliant Historian, Novelist and Governor-General. . . .

Canadians will shortly have the honor of welcoming this distinguished man of letters to Rideau Hall. We are sure they will feel they know him better, if they meet him first, through his brilliant pen. . . . Oliver Cromwell $5.00 The Massacre of Glencoe 1.50 History of English Literature. . . 3.25

NOVELS

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TORONTO

Not only Simpson's of Toronto but every other Canadian bookseller was last week piling up royalties for the arriving Governor-General, and the Dominion will pay him directly $43,799 per year.

Jocularly Canadians were remarking that John Buchan's new title, Baron Tweedsmuir, "sounds like some new kind of suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot. Due to land at Quebec on Oct. 24 from the Empress of Britain, Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir were the prey of seafaring autograph hunters this week. Bandied merrily were the Scottish jokes which the brilliant historian, novelist and Governor-General is so adept at working in at a captain's dinner:

¶ Lord Tweedsmuir is easily reminded of the Presbyterian divine who, when asked what he thought of Fielding's robust novel Tom Jones, replied, "Lads, it's grand stuff for taking the taste of the Apostles out of your mouth!"

¶ War anecdotes are often capped by His Excellency with the one about the Scottish soldier from the village of Rothie-murchus who was asked where he was wounded during General Sir Stanley Maude's campaign in Irak. "I was wounded," he replied, "about a mile on the Rothiemurchus side of Baghdad.''

¶ The new Governor-General, who for two years acted as King George's personal representative and Lord High Commissioner to the Assembly of the Church of Scotland (TIME, June 5, 1933), quotes as his best joke what was said by a sturdy churchman in bitter-end objection to the union of the Scottish churches: "It is unconstitutional. It is impractical. It is illogical and absolutely idiotic! But I hae no doot it is God's will."

''Who Knows What Kings?" John Buchan's useful mission is to redeem the Governor-Generalship from the slough of Canadian distaste into which it sank under his predecessor, the Earl of Bessborough. If Canadians are to go on paying $43,799 a year to an official from overseas whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact and disarming Scottish directness, as the mainspring of his jack-in-the-box bounce to Viceroyalty.