wiki-illiam #107: q12
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i: Rosa
I've seen SB's tentative answer to this, but it has vanished! Sean can you repost it (SB via googlebooks)
ii: Aymer
Aymer is VALLANCE in Free Fishers (SB via googlebooks)
iii: Reinmar
Reinmar is DR CHRISTOPH in "The Loathly Opposite", a story in The Runagates Club (SB via googlebooks)
iv: Clarence Donne
The Graf OTTO VON SCHWABING, Richard Hannay's foe in various John Buchan novels, was an officer of the Imperial Guard and German spy notorious good with disguise: in Mr Standfast he poses as a Kansan journalist called Clarence Donne (RB via google)
v: Alexander Thomson
SANDY ARBUTHNOT uses this name in The Three Hostages (BBP, google)
vi: Captain Theophilus Digby
In Buchan's The 39 Steps, A freelance spy called Franklin P. Scudder calls on Hannay to ask for help, but is murdered -- the corpse is given the name Digby for reasons I can't recall (PJ)
vii: Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson is ALASTAIR MACLEAN in Midwinter (SB via googlebooks)
viii: James Smith
James Smith is VALDEMAR HARALDSEN in The Island of Sheep
(SB via googlebooks)
ix: Newsom
In The House of the Four Winds, Newsom the chauffeur is really PRINCE JOHN (DDD via googlebooks)
x: Tuke
In Power-house, Tuke is really ROUTH (DDD via googlebooks)
i: Rosa
I've seen SB's tentative answer to this, but it has vanished! Sean can you repost it (SB via googlebooks)
Aymer is VALLANCE in Free Fishers (SB via googlebooks)
Reinmar is DR CHRISTOPH in "The Loathly Opposite", a story in The Runagates Club (SB via googlebooks)
The Graf OTTO VON SCHWABING, Richard Hannay's foe in various John Buchan novels, was an officer of the Imperial Guard and German spy notorious good with disguise: in Mr Standfast he poses as a Kansan journalist called Clarence Donne (RB via google)
SANDY ARBUTHNOT uses this name in The Three Hostages (BBP, google)
In Buchan's The 39 Steps, A freelance spy called Franklin P. Scudder calls on Hannay to ask for help, but is murdered -- the corpse is given the name Digby for reasons I can't recall (PJ)
Andrew Watson is ALASTAIR MACLEAN in Midwinter (SB via googlebooks)
James Smith is VALDEMAR HARALDSEN in The Island of Sheep
(SB via googlebooks)
In The House of the Four Winds, Newsom the chauffeur is really PRINCE JOHN (DDD via googlebooks)
In Power-house, Tuke is really ROUTH (DDD via googlebooks)
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Date: 2012-01-11 11:05 pm (UTC)The phrase "Ut rosa flos florum sic Leland grammaticorum" appears in Buchan's The Blanket Of The Dark:
" "One of the blind eyes and dumb mouths that have Oxford for their stepmother. I have forgot what Oxford is like ... Is the hand that leads you up Parnassus that of old John Leland? Ut rosa flos florum sic Leland grammaticorum--it is so long since I heard it I have lost the jingle."
The History And Antiquities Of The University Of Oxford by Anthony Wood says:
"this verse [as above] was made upon him, which with some alteration was fastned upon Jo. Leland Junior ... it runs thus:
Ut rosa flos florum sic Leland flos fatuorum"
So it was a slightly altered version.
Google books and
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301411h.html