... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. JOSEPH CONRAD has been a little out of fashion the last few years, but he still has his disciples, and among them none is more distinguished than Mr. Graham Greene. Not that Mr. Greene is an imitator. His attitude ...

... hardly believe, that she is writing in a foreign language. In one sense her achievement is more remarkable than that of Joseph Conrad, for, though she never writes as well as he did on occasion, she writes with greater facility and flexibility. Indeed, ...

... though not hard to detect. It is not present, for instance, in the work of Mr. H. G. Wells, as it is present in the work of Joseph Conrad. A writer may have an excellent style, like Defoe, and contribute to litera ture without being literary. Literature has ...

... to strive against these conditions and especially in the episode of the visiting masqueraders found them too much. In Joseph Conrad's 44 One Day More, the curtain-raiser, these handicaps were still more evident, for in this case the piece lacks the emotional ...