15 JUNE 1901, Page 3

We have noticed the death of Sir Walter teaant else-

where, but must record here the death of Mr. Robert Buchanan (born in Glasgow in 1841) on the next day. Mr. Robert Buchanan, though he never gave his undoubted genius its rights, was a man of very remarkable powers. There was a touch of genuine originality as well as of true poetic passion in his verse. We quote in another column a portion of a very striking poem which Mr. Buchanan contributed to the Spectator in the year 1866. One would have said that the man who could write verse of that kind at twenty-five must, be going to do really great things. Yet Mr. Buchanan was in the end known neither as a poet nor as a critic, but as a kind of literary pugilists—famous for his fights rather than for his creative work.