... enable the vessels to combat any foe of equal power of attack or to run away from a superior force. THE SAILOR'S WIND. Mr. Joseph Conrad writes of the winds in the new number of the Pall Mall Magazine. The prevailing weather of the North Atlantic, he says ...

... tobacco. A very painstaking composer, he considered hie manuscript several times before sending it to the printer. Mr. Joseph Conrad, writer of sea-tales, is a high-born Pole. At quite an early age he ran away to Hamburg, end began his career as s seaman ...

... including volumes of biography and criticism, as well as Action. A couple of novela he has written in collaboration with Joseph Conrad, the famous writer of sea stories. Last veer he published a striking etory, entitled The Soul of London; but his new ...

... smiimer timc, when the 'quality's' here, us sends over to Stratton, but in the winter us just dies a natural death. Mr. Joseph Conrad, the well•known novelist, gives a graphic picture of his initiation as a sailor when he was a youth. Re was in mid-Atlantic ...

... future numbers there will be discussion on oontroversial subjects in article* written from different points of view. Mr. Joseph Conrad, the writer of tales, Is a high-born Pole. At quip) an early age he ran away to Hamburg, and began his career as • seaman ...

... Like some other things, it may he said of the sea that You must love it, ere to you It will seem worthy of your love. Joseph Conrad loves it. For him there is rapture in its changeful movement, and inspirstion in its voice of power; ■nd thus he is able ...

... serial in the Echo de Paris. lit:a will be the fifth English novel appearing in French new papers, the others IT Mr. Joseph Conrad, Ur. Max Prinbert(m, Mr. Eder Phillpotts. and Mr. Arnold Bennett. When only 2 was collected at a festival is Chichester ...

... and of his eminence as a poet. tMr. Yeats is 46 rears of age, and was an art student before taking literature) £l5O Mr. Joseph Conrad In consideration of his men-naive a writer of fiction. (Born 1867. and of Po Leh parentage, Mr. Conrad formerly a 'muter ...

... TRACKERAY'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. I only met Thackersy once, writes Joseph Conrad, 'and that was at the table of my friends in Wiltshire, the Welbores of the Barrow. The party, except for the great novelist, consisted entirely of country friends, and ...

... remainder of Meredith's and Hardy's novels. They might also get a haft dozen more of H. G. Wells novels, and a few of Joseph Conrad's and George Moore's. Other novelists which are insufficiently re presented or unrepresented are Anthony Tr(*lope. Tolstoi ...

... Open Verdict, by M. H. Braddon. Concerning Isabell Carnaby, by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. Under Western Eyes, by Joseph Conrad. First Aid to the Servantec, by Mrs. J. G. Frazer. French Reading Book, by Mrs. J. G. F razor. The Red Hand of Ulster ...

... commerce. there is something left• if only a spark. And when there is a spark. there can always be a flame . —Chance, by Joseph Conrad. • Methuen. 6s. ...