... speakers seemed oppressed by something, and spoke in a mournful monotone which was decidedly depressing. How differently Joseph Conrad or Stephen Reynolds would have presented the same facts. Sir Auckland is not an inspiring speaker, but his incisiveness ...

... MR. CONRAD'S NEW NOVEL. Mr. Joseph Conrad's new novel, The Rescue, which has been so long delayed owing to paper difficulties, is 'now promised by Messrs. Dent for the 25th of this month. A city bookseller told me to-day that there is a bigger demand ...

... do you? No—er—but my brother does, and this is his hat. THE NEW CONRAD. When one tries to analyse the secret of Mr. Joseph Conrad's art, more clues may perhaps be found in The Rescue (Dent, 95.) than in any of his other books. There is the same sheer ...

... us check by kipping the picture well within reality. Truly there is reality enough in these rough nights at sea. Read Joseph Conrad's Typhoon, for the psychology of it ! • • • One always says that it is impossible to sleep through such sounds and fancies ...

... Exclusive Present. To help one away from the other slavery—that of the Exclusive Past—there is a workmanlike essay on Joseph Conrad by F. ilelian Stowell. ...

... Wales was yesterday *looted Pritsident of the Yacht liacids Assoc 'at ion. M. l'ad^rewAki arrived in Parin estordav Mr. Joseph Conrad. the novelist, is visiting Corsica. Mr. lien Tillett had a restless night, but there was a plight improVement in his condition ...

... MR. CONRAD CONFESSES. An amusing incident is concealed In this passage of Joseph Conrad's new book, Notes on Life and Letters : Through the kindness of the Admiralty (which, let rite confess here. in a white sheet. I repaid by the basest ingratitude) ...

... Conway Blatchford's exhibition of water colours of the sea at the Brookstreet Gallery should gain for him the title of the Joseph Conrad of Artists. His canvases have tho very tang and taste of the sea, and the description of one of them, My World, ...

... belated reader of his wife's memoirs, saying, Apearri to have a very facile pen. Mr. tburchill, Colonel Repington, Mr. Joseph Conrad, Mr. Woodrow Wilson. Lord Lansdowne, Mr. !Blain Belloc, Lord Leverhulme, Sir William Orpen. and Sir Edward Carson are among ...

... Statuary, sir? Majolica paintings in oil ? All the latest eighteenth century books? This way. Shaw's Blrrowings. Mr. Joseph Conrad ecstatically soliloquising on a barren shore on the Pacific, Where one might for ever be almost gay ; Mr. Asquith ...

... the matter. Test matches. In some quarters it is Looking Romantic. felt that the re-appearance of C. B. Fry As fee Mr. Joseph Conrad, there we may enable them to overcome some of have the man of mystery. The long their embarrassment His performance slant ...

... Islands on trust. Those of Mr. H. d e Vert Stacpoole have very little. except place-names, in common with those of Mr. Joseph Conrad—ave. Indeed, as far apart as these two novelists' ideas of romance and character. Still, as one of the characters in Mr ...