... did. Hawthorne worked in silence and solitude. As for Carlyle! His writing room was padded ! Noise drove him to rage. Joseph Conrad’s writing room in his Kent home looks out on trim grass, box hedges, and (:;)lendid trees., Yet when I told him I envied ...

... Earl Loreburn, who was for seven years Lord Chancellor. Literature lost, in the physical sonse, at any rate, two giants —Joseph Conrad, the celebrated Pole, who pmduc«l such outstanding rovels in the languago of his adoption, and Anatole Franco—Jacques Anatole ...