"Fifty Years Hence"

1929 [MacDiarmid, Hugh] (1892-1978). “Fifty Years Hence.” By C.M. Grieve [pseud.]. The Scots Independent (June 1929): 103-104, with a note on 105. The first, and apparently only, in an intended series Scotland To-morrow. Rpt. as Scotland in 1980. By C.M. Grieve [pseud.]. Montrose, Scotland: Gillechriosd Mac a Ghreidir, 1929. 4 pp. BL, DLC, MH, NLS, NN

A commentary, mostly positive, on Scottish nationalism but with a sense that it has been made acceptable. For example, while eighty percent of literature produced in Scotland was in “new standard Gaelic, which was approved by the Scottish Academy of Letters in 1969” (1), but older Gaelic literature, mostly by poets, is still published. See also his Albyn or Scotland in the Future. By C. M. Grieve [pseud.]. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co./New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927, a volume in the To-day and Tomorrow series, which deplores current conditions and has little on the future. On the series, see Max Saunders, Imagined Futures: Writing, Science and Modernity on the To-Day and To-Morrow Series, 1923-31. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2019.