SAMSON AGONISTES
MR. ROBERT BUCHANAN.
MY FIRST BOOKS.
“UNDERTONES” AND “IDYLS AND LEGENDS OF INVERBURN.”
By Robert Buchanan.
Illustrations by by George Hutchinson
(Photographs by Messrs. Fradelle and Young.)
My first serious effort in Literature was what I may call a double-barrelled one; in other words, I was seriously engaged upon Two Books at the same time, and it was by the merest accident that they did not appear simultaneously. As it was, only a few months divided one from the other, and they are always, in my own mind, inseparable, or Siamese, twins. The book of poems called Undertones was the one; the book of poems called Idyls and Legends of Inverburn was the other. They were published nearly thirty years ago, when I was still a boy, and as they happened to bring me into connection, more or less intimately, with some of the leading spirits of the age, a few notes concerning them may be of interest.
