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PEEPS FORWARD INTO BOOKLAND: WITH A FEW BACKWARD GLANCES

... Silver Sand Mr. J. B. Burton, A Vanished Rival Mr. Anthony Hope, Tristram of Blent; Mr. Neil Munro, Doom Castle Mr. Joseph Conrad, The Rescue Mr. J. A. Steuart, The Eternal Quest the Rev. Baring-Gould, Nebo and Madame Sarah Grand, Babs the Impossible ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1020 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

HEARD IN THE GREEN-ROOM

... characteristically puts it. He cites, in particular, Mr. H. G. Wells, Mr. Gilbert Chesterton, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Mr. Joseph Conrad, .Air. Hilaire Belloc, Mr. Gilbert Murray, and Mr. Maurice Hewlett as forming a constellation which may challenge all the ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 930 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLAIMS OF THE UNCONVENTIONALS: Mr. Chesterton on Mr. Shaw: And Mr. Walkley on the British Public

... single instance in which its influence has encouraged the development ot English drama in the last twenty- five years. Mr. Joseph Conrad I have always looked upon it with indignation. It is an outrage upon the dignity and honesty of the calling. Mr. H. G. ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1909
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2940 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

The Literary Log: Vagabondus Redivivus

... where his predecessors have established agencies, so to speak, for their own personal attractions. Joseph Conrad The three stories which Joseph Conrad has gathered together under the title of 'Twixt Laud and Sea (Dent 6s.) are among the best I have ever ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1558 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

In Town and Out: The Queen's Household

... and his experiences afloat were perhaps as fruitful a source of inspiration to him in his later career as were those of Joseph Conrad to that master of vivid prose when he forsook seafaring for litera ture. He is an honorary member of a number of foreign ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1912
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 969 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Wayfarers' Library

... not only include work by all our best novelists by H. G. Wells, i|j Arnold Bennett, A. E. W. Mason, Stanley gj Weyman, Joseph Conrad, and so on but will include a great variety in modern biography and }j essay literature. Unlike Everyman's Library these ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2227 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BYSTANDER AMONG THE BOOKS: Joseph Conrad

... J THE BYSTANDER AMONG 1 THE BOOKS By RALPH STRAUS Joseph Conrad With the publication, early this year, of Chance, Mr. Joseph Conrad has at last touched the ordinary reader. It may be that he is still not much more than a name, but there are already three ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 814 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

BETWEEN STATIONS

... proportion and its slim, well-trousered length is far more important than the fate of Ulster or the exact value of Mr. Joseph Conrad. When one has given one's hair its final touch, has arranged one's cuffs, has made sure that one's boots are spotless, ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1056 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

BETWEEN STATIONS

... STATIONS V 4k BY GRANT RICHARDS. ii a i ^-r- m XJ (Author of Caviare and 11 Valentine) AT my bedside are three books--Mr. Joseph Conrad's Chance (of which I read about six pages a day), Baedeker's Northern Germany, and Baedeker's Southern Germany. There ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1037 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE GREAT WORLD: VICE-ADMIRAL CARDEN

... he is grizzled and hardened by hard weather, and in appear ance and manner might have stepped out of the stormiest of Joseph Conrad's sea- romances. But he is some thing better than a character in fiction, and the work he has to do more romantic than ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 918 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs