... 'Twixt Land and Sea. By Joseph Conrad. {J. M. Dent and Sous.) Mr. Conrad has long been known for a lover of the sea. Like Jacob for Rachel, he has served for her, and not so much to make her his as to make himself hers. There are those of us who would ...

... '..'.'.'.■.■'■■-■.■Wu) II. -in J.. ..nl,!i (H MASTER MARINER AND MASTER MIND Joseph Conrad's Ego. It is impossible to deal adequately in a column with Mr. Joseph Conrad's ego, as revealed by himself. His are not as other Reminiscences. cences. The ...

... Victory. Bv Joseph Conrad. Methuen A disillusioned old Swedish philosopher lay dying in London, and at his bedside sat his only son, to whom his wisdom crystallised in the direction Look on make no sound. They were the last words of a man who had spent ...

... enthusiastic at any thing which happens in thn commonplace story. The September Book Monthly. As all the world knows. Joseph Conrad has arrived. By birth he is a Pole, and it is said of him that when he came to write it was at first a toss-up whether ...

... average jog-trot novel, such as has to be written by the author who makes a living out of it. If Mr. H. G. Wells, or Mr. Joseph Conrad, or Mr. Arnold Bennett, or any other licensed weaver, like to spin the v^arn out half as long again, that is for them to ...

... demand, and never were there more media for it. One is, therefore, a little surprised at the grant of £100 per annum to Mr. Joseph Conrad, who surely would find little difficulty in making that sum a score of times annuallyr would he but condescend to adapt ...

... A LITERARY LETTER A Novel with a Style. al z\| London, February 2, 1914. Mr. Joseph Conrad published his first novel in 1895-- Almayer's Folly-- and, as I think, his best novel, The Nigger of the Narcissus in 1897. He is responsible for some eighteen ...

... Under Western Eyes. By Joseph Conrad. Methuen The Slav never fails of fascination for us, Christian though he be, and European as we fondly think him; yet so exotic a compound of the barbaric and the mystic, at once so simple, so elusive, and so cynical ...

... A LITERARY LETTER The Centenary of Blackwood's Magazine. London, April 9, 1917. A new book by Mr. Joseph Conrad is a literary event to many of us, and so it has been for nearly a quarter of a century. Since Mr. George Meredith died and Mr. Thomas Hardy ...

... Hueffer is known more especially as the author of The Fifth Queen, The Fifth Queen Crowned, and as collaborator with Mr. Joseph Conrad in Romance and The Inheritors. Miss Violet Hunt, who is Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer's second wife, is best known as author ...

... manner nr\ rtnn iifi-vtil/1 +/xr* n mr\monJ nnrtrorn in 1JLI LD1JC WUUIU tx II1U111L.11L ULOliaiU LV_ give a place to Mr. Joseph Conrad. A new book by him is always an event in my eyes. It is clearly also an event in the eyes of that mysterious person, the ...

... his back upon it, though in his heart he had he-rd the call, which later comes again. The Shadow-Line: A Confession. By Joseph Conrad. (Dent.) 5s. The purpose of this book is expressed in the query on the outside cover Why did the captain and the silent ...