Worldly and otherworldly

The Spectator | August 30, 2008| | Copyright

STORIES by John Buchan, selected and introduced by Giles Foden The Folio Society, £22.50, pp. 384, www. foliosociety. com, Tel: 0207 400 4222

In 'The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel', John Betjeman has Wilde whimper to Robert Ross: 'So you've brought me the latest Yellow Book: / And Buchan has got in it now: / Approval of what is approved of/ Is as false as a well-kept vow.' It is a marvellous scene, but not quite accurate. As a thousand Buchanites will clamour, Wilde was arrested in April 1895 and Buchan's first story appeared in Aubrey Beardsley's gorgeous fin-de-siècle ...

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