... Blanchette In the West Countrie, August i. Dear Cousin HERE in the distant restfulness of Devon and the peace of the sea (as Joseph Conrad once called it) I think one feels perhaps even more than ever what that Day means which happens this week. August the Fourth ...

... 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 ...

... bringing out new books, I mean. Simply thousands of 'em pouring out 'tween now and end of next month, so they tell me Joseph Conrad, Hugh Walpole, John Galsworthy, W. B. Maxwell, Warwick Deeping all the best, and the rest. Even the great Sir Hall and ...

... that was the end of it. A Modern Miracle Strange how environment affects the working of the mind. I shall never feel that Joseph Conrad, the master of the modern English novel, is really dead, because I first heard about it in surroundings that were entirely ...

... S3 Hence, perhaps, what Father Vaughan calls the week-end wife, also the flapper-bride and that jungly young woman of Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly, who felt as if this bold being (her savage lover) who spoke burning words into her willing ear was ...