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... Villiers believes in sail as the training for boys, and here he shows something of the life his crew of cadets lived in the Joseph Conrad when he was mister during the two years' voyage round the world. His beautiful full-rigged ship, alas has been sold to ...

LIONS of the SEA: Sail is Vital for the Training of Sailors

... sea, of both the Royal and Mer chant Navies, opinion as to the method of training our future officers and men for what Joseph Conrad called the austere servitude of the sea is divided, but it may be accepted, judging from a recent represent ative meeting ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 747 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

The LEAVE OF YESTERDAY: A Book Page for Tomorrow

... touch like what we find in Dana's famous narrative, Two Years Before the Mast. mli Oddly enough, another sailor man, Mr. Joseph Conrad, has, at this present time, come in for his just, rightful wind of recognition. He is over sixty, and he has been writing ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1919
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1276 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

... PACIFIC COAST Where the famous hero of Ben Hur has been very busy on the big Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, Romance, a Joseph Conrad story of the Caribbean Seas, in which he gets big opportunities, and which is now completed so we understand MISS SALLY ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1927
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 689 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... Budget. By J. S, Fletcher. 7s.6d.net. The Black Abbot. By. Edgar Wallace. 7s. 6d. net. W. BLACKWOOD SONS. Lord Jim. By Joseph Conrad. 3s. 6d. net. Ten Months in Bolshevik Prisons. By Irene -Doubassoll. 12s. 6d. net. ORDER YOUR COPY DIRECT The rates of ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 668 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Books of To-morrow and To-day

... {Ffooks of To-morroW and To-day Novelists ol the larger sort, as, lo, instance. Joseph Conrad, who have bloomed in the Spring and Early Summer: In this marking a departure from the old Convention that Great Leaves oi Literature must fall only ,n the Autumn ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1388 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAY OF THE WORLD

... supremely right when he says that war is at best a poor cement for friendship. TT/ie Death of Mr. Conrad The passing of Joseph Conrad is a blow for the world of letters, for the extraordinary Pole, who could write English as very few native- born Englishmen ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1924
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1364 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

... gone down at the Mermaid and Miss Marie Lohr strives bravely to demonstrate that something happens in the novels of Mr. Joseph Conrad apart from the delicate interaction upon one another by the elderly- seafaring men who exchange their finely balanced ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 878 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... laborious- ness and crudity may George Meredith, Henry Jaines, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, Emily Bronte, Joseph Conrad, the Gods, and you forgive this book. Mothers and Children: Hitherto Unpublished Stories by the late 44 Frank Danby. ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1918
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 767 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... inspired by a high and almost mystic thought, and brings a sense of solace very welcome at the present moment. Youth. By Joseph Conrad. (J.M.Dent.) ss. Youth is a feat of memory, says the author in his preface. It is a record of experience, but that ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1917
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 756 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LIFEBOAT 100 YEARS AGO AND NOW: THE CENTENARY OF THE LIFEBOAT

... and admirably arranged. You read it with the liveliest interest. The fore word is by the supreme novelist of the sea, Joseph Conrad, who speaks intimately of the service from the sailor's point of view. E. M. Evoks. A CATERPILLAR TRACTOR which saves time ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 681 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... BOOKS TO ENTERTAIN YOU Unconquered. By Maud Diver. (John Murray.) 2s. The Rescue, a romance of the shallows. By Joseph Conrad. (Dent.) 9s This is a long novel, in which Tom Lingard. a great cha racter, sets himself the task of restoring to their kingdom ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 635 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs