I especially liked BAR-BACK (now that I know what it means), ALLUSION, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ALL IS LOST (let's hope not, Mr. Gross), MR. AMERICA (just because it's such an unusual entry and is being resurrected after a hiatus of nearly 60 years), ATTENTION GETTER, ADULTERY, ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, the uknown-to-me-but-now-I-know RUNAGATES, ENDOCRINE SYSTEM, LOIS LANE, EYE CHART, NOVELETTE, SPELMAN College, TATER TOT and ANANDA.
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The Runagates Club is a 1928 collection of short stories by the Scottish author John Buchan. The collection consists of twelve tales presented as reminiscences of members of The Runagates Club, a London dining society. Several of the stories are recounted by recurrent characters in Buchan’s fiction, including Richard Hannay, Sandy Arbuthnot, John Palliser-Yeates, Charles Lamancha, and Edward Leithen.
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According to Buchan's preface, the book's title is taken from Psalm 68: "He letteth the runagates continue in scarceness", a reference to the "execrable" quality of the club's food and wine.
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The second part of the word muskrat was altered to match rat, replacing the original form ', which derives from an Algonquian (possibly Powhatan) word, muscascus (literally "it is red"), or from the Abenaki native word mòskwas. The Prayer Book's runagates in Psalm 68 derive from phono- semantic matching between Latin renegatus and English run agate.
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The stories are "pleasingly diverse in subject, incident and treatment" according to a contemporary reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement. Discussing The Runagates Club, Brian Stableford praised "The Green Wildebeest" as "a well-executed story". Stableford also described "Skule Skerry", "Tendebant Manus", and "Fullcircle" as "tales of subtle hauntings, told with a delicacy with Buchan rarely bothered to bring to his hurriedly-penned novels." Stableford, Brian, "Buchan, John, (1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield)", in David Pringle, St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers (London: St. James Press, 1998}, pp.
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He takes part in the Matabele Wars, serves two years with the Imperial Light HorseThe Runagates Club, Ch 1 and serves as an intelligence officer at Delagoa Bay in the Boer war.ch 3, He goes to England in 1914, shortly before the events of The Thirty-Nine Steps. The First World War breaks out eight weeks after the events of The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Hannay immediately joins the New Army, and is promptly commissioned captain on the strength of his Matebele campaign experience. He is wounded in the leg and neck in the Battle of Loos in September 1915, by which time he had reached the rank of major.
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