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CAPTAIN CONRAD'S WATER CLERK

... CAPTAIN CONRAD'S WATER CLERK. Of Joseph Conrad's new novel, Lord Jim, it may safely be said that the half would have been better than the whole. There is a wonderful comprelensive•ness in the study of character; but the plot is languid. Lord Jim is ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1900
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... Highlands and partly on the Continent. Mr. Joseph Conrad is writing a short story which, with Youth and The Heart of Darkness, will appear in volume form in the spring. Mr. Heim - maim has secured Mr. Joseph Conrad's next long novel, which, we hem, is entitled ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1900
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1925 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE EAU'S ruts? KISS

... THE EAU'S ruts? KISS. The following quotation from Kr. Joseph Conrad's book *Youth. &Narrative. give% a description of a young merchant sailor's first sight of the East. He had undertaken the perilous journey the knew the ship was almost doomed Moore ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1903
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MR CONRAD IN AN EAST WIND

... MR CONRAD IN AN EAST WIND. Mr. Joseph Conrad's word.pictures are always graphk. Take the following from - The Mirror of the (Methuen and Co.). a book full of good things for those who like effective writing: The dry, easterly weather, when it turns to ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1908
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DRINK LAGER! BUT

... The new monthly magazine, the niew. promises us. as one of its leading fen• tures. an autobiography from the pen of Mr. Joseph Conrad. the novelist. That should certainly make a piece of arre.ting writing. Mr. Conrad was born a Pole, and, being moved to ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1908
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1734 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LITERARY CHAT. qM Egypt is • poet, and not • bid ow Women dislike historical novels, sacs • librsrian. The

... monthly, and the price will be half-a-crown. The contributors to the first number are Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Henry James, Mr. Joseph Conrad, Mr. John Galaworthy, Mr. W. H. Hudson, Count Tolstoy, and Mi. 11. G. Wells. Amongst authors who are contributing to future ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1908
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1410 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

READERS AND WRITERS

... now. It quite true. Sea Sea Novels novels are o ff . perhaps because are ••Off. they are not generally wanted. Mr. Joseph Conrad hasn't been heard from for a long time, and Mr. Edgar Noble's Lords of the Sea is burdened by • purpose. the historical ...

Published: Friday 04 February 1910
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1485 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SUNK IN THE CHANNEL

... the Echo de Paris. 'Phil will be the fifth English novel appearing in French daily newspapers, the others being by Mr. Joseph Conrad, an. Max Pemberton, Mr. Men Phillpotta, and lig: Arnold Bennett. Whew only..tt.l was citOected at a isimionary festival ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1910
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1004 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CLARKE'S 141 PILLS

... and sea-life are all too few nowa -days. Stevenson could do it, Mr Bone's and so could Captain llarryatt. Bea Sketches. Joseph Conrad can do it, and Mr. Clark Russell, too—son of that Henry of the name who sang of A Life on the Ocean Wave. An addition ...

Published: Friday 29 July 1910
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1591 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS

... those, for example, of Lady Huggins, widow of the astronomer; Mrs. Davidson, widow of the poet; M. W. B. Yeats, and Mr. Joseph Conrad. The &lighters of Mr. Frederic Greenwood, the of the old St. James's Gamette,'-imeives 4100 jointly. sod a particularly ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1911
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 785 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

♦ CHATT7 COLUMN ON BOOKS ♦ND

... i am to see that the List widow of poor John Davidson, the port, gets £75 a year, Mr. W. B. Yeats gets £l5O, and Mr. Joseph Conrad, the novelist, gets £lOO. But why one novelist more than another? One would like to know on what principle. it any. these ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1911
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1497 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... _«__ Work of Joseph Conrad. Tho reader whose taste in novels is really good has long since recognised Mr Joeeph Conrad as a man of mark. He has created a public for himself of a remarkable kind, and this public sill be ready to welcome his reminiscences ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1912
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 4 | Tags: none