... and 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 splendid trees. Yet when I told him I envied him ...

... well-known authors, it is well stocked with artistic illustrations. Amongst the contributors are such well-known names as Joseph Conrad and Alfred Noyes, whilst the illustrations are reproductions of the work of Julius Olsson, R.A., Frank Brangwyn, R.A., ...

... attractive shilling's-worth That it is readable is attested by the fact that contributors of articles and sketches include Mr. Joseph Conrad, Mr. Alfred Noyes, Bartimeus, Mr. Bennet Copplestone, and others whose names are hardly less familiar, while the illustrations ...

... three cavaliers—and they are mixed. The author fortunate in having secured for his work a foreword from the pen of Mr. Joseph Conrad. Of another type again The Two Coyotes, which Mr. David Grew has written. This a tale the far North-West, told with ...