... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Revolutionary ; noble entnen of Virginia Sin by Wilhite S. Hart with restrained skill that no modern English novelist—net even Joseph Conrad—has displayed. It is • drimatic work. Patrick Henry's career wee dramatic, and if. as I William S. Raft won public favour ...

... by as American agency, admits this witlnt it. on her work; two Indian students, an. , marling a law book and the other Joseph Conrad; a priest reading • breviary: two north-countrymen fast asleep; an old man with a long heard with a pocket chess set and ...