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LANGUAGE LEARNED FROM FISHERMEN

... in French, but perhaps the most wonderful example of & man capturing a language that is not his owu is supplied by Hr. Joseph Conrad, a Pole, who writes exquisite English, and be is one of the master stylist* of his time. He learned our lanage (says a ...

THE GREAT PEARL MYSTERY

... perished intense aonv was, indeed, a thrilling triumph for science and a story winch would require the pen of a Hugo a Joseph Conrad, a Stevenson, Llark Russell for its adequate recount»*; Another notable branch of science in which patient labour has ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1913
Newspaper: Tamworth Herald
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1178 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A STORY OF THE SEAS

... most picturesque , deieription of the for of ihe,!' Empress of Ireland, so picturesque that itreade,like a rage, .from Joseph_' Conrad,' appears, in a WashingtOti newspaper in fol 7 special despatch front Quebee': , - in the lobtik-hf Chateau Frontense ...

Published: Monday 01 June 1914
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 775 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BROMWICH

... 000,030. The money re (aired will he borrowed by Treasury by means of terminable annuities. MR. CONRAD'S NEW BegiE. Mr. Joseph Conrad has just finished his new long nuvel. on which he has been cr.gaged for twenty•two months. It. is a story of the Eastern ...

Published: Thursday 09 July 1914
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 739 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THY LOVE

... a-sailing you in the dead stillnem of your present where nothing move, except the irrecoverable minutes of your life.—Joseph Conrad, from Chanee. 11 I f ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1914
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE COTTON QUEST{ON

... Maarten Maarten', the novelist., whose death is announced, was a notable example among those writers who, like Mr. Joseph Conrad, have made English their adopted language. He was born in 1858 at Amsterdam, and his real amine was Joost Marius Willem ...

Published: Friday 06 August 1915
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 387 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VICTORY

... VICTORY. Mr. Joseph Conrad's new novel deals with the same land of setting, and a way with the same kind of problem, ‘‘Lord Jim. It is story of the South See Islands and the strange phases of human life and character to be found there—the same weird ...

Published: Monday 11 June 1917
Newspaper: Burton Daily Mail
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 366 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STONE URBAN COUNCIt

... Galsworthy. tions are a Among the literary contribu- titled The Pil om: by -Rudyard Kipling, en- grim’s Way ;’ an article by Joseph Conrad, describing the author’s ex- periences in Poland at the ‘beginning of. the war; a play by Sir J. M. Barrie; a French Hospital ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1918
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1369 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE STORY OF THE YEAR

... interested in the exhibition of the great French impressionist, Henri Matisse. The two books of the year are, beyond doubt, Joseph Conrad's Arrow Gold and Max Beerbohm's Seven Men. A number interesting war memories have been published, including' the books ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1920
Newspaper: Tamworth Herald
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3504 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COUNTY INTELLIGENCE

... a way of improving the world and furthering the progress of mankind. He would probably live as a workaday philasopher. Joseph Conrad was a great romantic realist—even greater than Kipling. Conrad secs human life as & romance, and is a great painter of ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1920
Newspaper: Staffordshire Advertiser
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1473 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RANDOM READINGS

... by M&urio6 Hewlett, in the Cornhill Magaiint. JOSEPH CONRAD ON STEPHEN CRANE. Here a tribute to Stephen Crane, tbe remarkable youth who wrote The Red Badge of Courage, from the pen of Mr. Joseph Conrad, taken from the American Boolman. Stephen Crane ...

Published: Friday 09 April 1920
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1208 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RANDOM READINGS

... lettering, particularly as iheir glacine lx>ok-wrappers exposed the style of binding. The earlier editions of the works Joseph Conrad, George Moore. Olive £chrciner, Louis Beeke. S. It. Crockett, and many others were produced in beautiful green cloth with ...

Published: Friday 30 July 1920
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1104 | Page: 6 | Tags: none