... Robinson, and has even • touch of the colour which one will find in Prescott's Conquest of Peru. Writers and Readers. Mr. Joseph Conrad now nearly finished his novel on the Napoleonic period. A posthumous volume of stories by Miss Katherine Mansfield is appearing ...

... “on” a ship, example, invariably aay “in” whereas a sailor would always say The phrase, “to cast anchor.” which fills Mr. Joseph Conrad with such disgust, is used by most “lay” writers whe want to appear nautical; and it is to be found, as a matter of fact ...