... the symbol of the bat. How different is it with the peoples who worship the cricket bill •• * • In a review of a hook on Joseph Conrad I find this:—Lika almost all A DOG'S JOB. the great writers, Conrad hated writing; 'lt is a dog's job,' be would say ...

... John Wittes, who flourished 1777 1852. hit upon this mode delivery when liowling to him for practice and adopted it. Joseph Conrad (says the writer of “A Londoner's Diary in the Evening Standard ) haa a more extraordinary and inexplicable career than ...

... astonished find them alive. The girl received severe scalp wound and other injuries, but the boy escaped unhurt by Mr. Joseph Conrad, the famous author, falling on his sister. They were leraoved died at his residence, at Bishopsbourne, near to Barry Accident ...

... army ander the leadership of the Crown Prince Ali. UNCOEION SENSE. ♦ NOVNATIN M9VEII. At twenty yearn of age the hits Joseph Conrad knew only a few words of English, which he had picked up from English sailormen during a lifetime spent it sea. He wanted ...

... soft silk and the like i must be considerably diluted. There are many other methods of making starch. ART OF COOKERY Mrs. Joseph Conrad, wife of the wellknown author, haa the following pithy remarks to make about cookery as the mother art Cooking ii an art ...

... includes the novels of Mark Rutherford. 44 Memories of Mark Rutherford,” Sir William Robertson Nicoll, and the earlier works Joseph Conrad. Next month Messrs. Bell will publish an enlarged and revised edition X-Rays and Crystal Structure,” upon which Sir William ...

... (entertainers). 4.4s—Women’s hour. s.ls—Kiddies’ hour. 6.ls—Scholars’ half-hour. 7—News from London. 7.10—J. C. B. Carter on ” Joseph Conrad and His Works.” 7.25 New ana weather. 7.3o—Orchestra; overture, Irish Comedy.” 7.40 —Song cycle, Bunch of Shamrock.” B ...

... men of letters in this country. To mention few— Mr. Rudvard Kipling, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Drinkwater, Lord Haldane, Mr. Joseph Conrad, Mr. Arnold Bennet, Mr. W. J. Locke, Mr. A. E. W. Mason, Lord Esher, and Mr. G. K. Chesterton. That by no means exhausts ...

... said and did. Hawthorne worked in silence and solitnds. for Carlyle ! His writing room was padded Noise drove him rag*. Joseph Conrad writing room his Kent borne looks out on trim grass, hex hedges, and splendid trees. Yet when 1 told him 1 envied writing ...

... in the “ Writers the Lay *’ series, edited by Mr. Bertram Christian. the same series revised version Mr. Hugh Walpole’s Joseph Conrad will appear early m April. A high place among contemporary humourists has been won Mr. Ashley Sterne. His new volume, “ ...

... Sages of to day, we accept Mr. nominations, are Anatoie France. Thomas Hardv. H. G. Well*, Arnold Kenault, Bernard Shaw. Joseph Conrad, and John Continental critic* would see in the list melancholy manifestation of the incurable insularity of the British ...

... made to support them he frequently quoted my many letters to CONRAD LEAVES £20.000. FORTUNES OF OTIIER NOVELISTS. Mr. Joseph Conrad, the famous novelist, who died on August 3. aged 00, left L 20,043, with n.i personalty I:l7.ftrol. Mr. Conrad. who lived ...