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THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... Cadurcis in Venetia Charles Dickens is Mr. Gushy in Endymion; and Lord Granville is Lord Rawchester in the same novel. Mr. Joseph Conrad has written a critical essay on tlie work of Henry James, which he places on a very lofty eminence indeed. His books stand ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1109 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS

... beaut}', or, as the case may be, making them hollow to the point of mockery. On August 3, 1924, all that was mortal of Joseph Conrad passed away. That which was immortal in him passed on to inspire the expressed grief and homage of a world made poorer ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1927
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1949 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

Motley Notes: POOR US!

... good writer will not go long unrecog nised in these times. Recognition may not come immediately as it did not come to Joseph Conrad but it will come, and will not usually wait until genius is dead and buried and often it comes quickly and fully. Another ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1102 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

WOMAN'S WAYS: New Modes in Peking

... years in different ways is patent to the most super ficial observer of the human comedy. Now we have the authority of Mr. Joseph Conrad that the in experience of the man of forty- is a much more serious thing than the inexperience of a youth of twenty in ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1002 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

IN COLOUR AND LINE: CHRISTMAS GIFT-BOOKS

... A. S. Cope, R.A., and Mr. William Llewellyn, A.R.A. Mr. John Gals worthy, Sir J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, E. F. Benson, Joseph Conrad, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and other first-rate writers, who send characteristic work; while, to return to the art side, ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1213 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

BYSTANDER COMMENTS: I Get a Shock

... old kit-bag, and stroll off to one of those islands in the Pacific, or some other luke-warm ocean, after the fashion of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, or Robert Louis Stevenson. How splendid to sit about all day in the warm sun, with plenty to eat and ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1923
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Clubman: The Prince's Travel Letters

... blew a kiss to a lady in the stalls, which mightily interested the pit people. Authors at f°PPe,d f tou ?ave a Auction Joseph Conrad manuscripts before they were sold off at Hodgson's. When I arrived they were auctioning the books which had been given ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1180 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

Max Makes a Mockery of Men and Manners

... present who is in the public eye at the moment everybody from Lytton Strachey to Lord Hugh Cecil, and from Sidney Webb to Joseph Conrad. Every victim of Max's humour had been invited, and, since there are eighty-three pictures on show, you can imagine how ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1921
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1224 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. MR. JOSEPH CONRAD has at length published his long- expected new book. It contains three stories, or rather, sea- studies. Youth, which gives the title to the work, is by far the most striking. It is a wonderful piece of writing ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1261 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Clubman: The Most Expensive You Have

... robe reputed to consist of fifty trunks, and the designs of those suits were already very well known. Mrs. Conrad. m. Joseph Conrad has left a fortune of £20,000 to his wife and family. In addition, substantial royalties from his books can be reckoned ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: NOTHING TO DO

... and in nearly all primitive societies, when men have leisure, their constant and unfailing relaxation is just talking. Joseph Conrad remarks somewhere that among the Malays, whom he knew so well, this is the chief pleasure of life and if you have ever ...

Published: Wednesday 28 April 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1210 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 02 April 1919
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1066 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations