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SOME NEW BOOKS OF THE MOMENT: THE EPIC OF JAN SMUTS

... his back upon it, though in his heart he had he-rd the call, which later comes again. The Shadow-Line: A Confession. By Joseph Conrad. (Dent.) 5s. The purpose of this book is expressed in the query on the outside cover Why did the captain and the silent ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1484 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Centenary of Blackwood's Magazine

... A LITERARY LETTER The Centenary of Blackwood's Magazine. London, April 9, 1917. A new book by Mr. Joseph Conrad is a literary event to many of us, and so it has been for nearly a quarter of a century. Since Mr. George Meredith died and Mr. Thomas Hardy ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2456 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Authors and Self-Advertisement

... the slightest attempt at self-advertisement on the part of my own two favourite living authors, Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr. Joseph Conrad. George Meredith shrank from publicity although for long years he lacked the recognition which his works deserved. Good ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1986 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Passing Show: London Hippodrome

... shows Mr. Somerset Maugham once more as one of the most able dramatists we possess. The Globe Theatre. f you haven't read Joseph Conrad's book you will be rather puzzled by Mr. Basil Macdonald Hastings' dramatisation, Victory, produced the other day by Miss ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1919
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1365 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Frank Boyd's A Pelican's Tale.: London, April 21, 1919

... Horace, of Dante, or of Bunyan. ^j^here is now running very successfully at one of our theatres a play based upon Mr. Joseph Conrad's fine novel, Victory. It is not generally known that Mr. Conrad is the actual author of a play. It is called One Day More ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1919
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2196 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

A New Literary Log: The September Book Monthly

... enthusiastic at any thing which happens in thn commonplace story. The September Book Monthly. As all the world knows. Joseph Conrad has arrived. By birth he is a Pole, and it is said of him that when he came to write it was at first a toss-up whether ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1919
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 693 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

The LEAVES OF YESTERDAY: A Book Page for Tomorrow

... as to quantity, for of fiction there seems to have been a tremendous lot. One of the ||*3 year's novels may go on, Mr. Joseph Conrad's Arrow of Gold, if only because it is more Conradish than anything else he has done, k Apart from him, where are the ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1919
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1288 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The LEAVES OF YESTERDAY: A Book Page for Tomorrow

... as to quantity, for of fiction there seems to have been a tremendous lot. One of the ||*3 year's novels may go on, Mr. Joseph Conrad's Arrow of Gold, if only because it is more Conradish than anything else he has done, k Apart from him, where are the ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1919
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1288 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: An Anthology in the Making

... from all the foolish gossip and gossipers. (Af the masters of modern English fiction Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad he has much that is salient to say. While I think he does Mr. Thomas Hardy's poetry less than justice, I share with him ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2037 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Remarkable Novel

... teresting, his judgment of men and women exceptionally acute, and I foresee for him a career as amazing as that of Mr. Joseph Conrad. Since Mr. Conrad or I should say, other than Mr. Conrad I know of no man of foreign race, brought up in a different world ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2162 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The R. L. Stevenson Club

... gentlemen who are still writing indifferent English were writing in different English in Stevenson's days. I count Mr. Joseph Conrad quite as good a master of style as Stevenson and Mr. W. H. Hudson, and half-a-dozen others I might name. rPhere has been ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2026 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Champagne

... discover that foreigners are able to achieve a mastery of his language. I fie most noteworthy example is, of course, Mr. Joseph Conrad, a Pole, who has acquired an acknowledged mastery of our tongue, and whose books have an assured place among the English ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2150 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review