... world over at the Conven tion is evidence of the truth of the main contentions stated in this article I think it is Mr. Joseph Conrad who exclaims, or makes one of his characters exclaim, Give me a word, and I will rule the world. And words are instanced ...

... price. My friend was anxious not to make the mistake which people made who bought Robert Louis Stevenson's stories or Joseph Conrad's in the years that are gone, and then threw them away, ignorant of the fact that a book which twenty years ago was valued ...