... directly commonplace in such names as Cirencester. A Occasionally, too, one may encounter a sprinkling of names with a rich Joseph Conrad flavour —Celebes, Amboyna, or Mindanao —and instantly one is impelled to picture some retired sea captain who has sought ...

... Conrad and Mis Contemporaries ” (Minerva Publishing Co., 36 Great Russell Street. London. 3s), Born in Poland, Theodor Joseph Conrad Korzniowski came to settle in England when ill health put an end to his seafaring career, and this book touches intimate‘ ...

... will be a tang of the sea about “ The Otago Wheel,” hroadcast on December 7 in Scottish. The 500-ton barque Otago was Joseph Conrad’s first command, and just before the war Christopher Morley, the wellknown American writer, found her lying abandoned in ...

... CONRAD’S FIRST NOVEL This is the jubilee year of Joseph Conrad’s first novel, “ Almayer’s Folly —the jubilee, that -is, of its publication. The story was begun one September morning in 1889, and, during the five years which passed before it was completed ...

... quite a number of them gifts from the authors. CONRAD IN SCOTLAND In view of the forthcoming issue of a new edition of Joseph Conrad’s works, it is interesting to note that nearly 30 years ago, in November 1916, the great novelist came to Edinburgh in ...