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VARIETY for the BOOKSHELF: Jacob Epstein's Autobiography: A Book for Wine-Lovers: Historical Miniatures: ..

... characters as Lord Beaverbrook', George Bernard Shaw, Alfred Einstein, Haile Selassie, Lord Fisher, the Duke of Marlborough, Joseph Conrad and R. 13. Cunningham Grahame. In this book Mr. Jacob Epstein has let the sparks fly with the same vigour as presumably ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1851 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... during his Paris period, his pen-pictures of well-known persons who have sat to him for their portraits. Among them are Joseph Conrad, Bernard Shaw, Augustus John, Cunninghame-Graham, Linstein, KaDinaranatn Tagore, Lord Fisher, Lord Beaverbrook, the Emperor ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1969 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... CINEMA CAMEOS. By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE most unusual film of this or many weeks past is VICTORY (Plaza), from the Joseph Conrad novel of ideals and adven ture in the sticky South Seas. It is pos sibly a little more unusual than the producers reckoned for ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1242 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Myself at the Pictures: Good Material and Bad

... changeless, ever-changing high-roads. Whatever its origin the phrase sums up the informing spirit of that great writer, Joseph Conrad, which is at once mysterious and incommunicable. The commonplace that all art reveals itself in its own terms and cannot ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN AID: Its Real Meaning--Sir Walter Citrine's Odyssey; H. V. Morton on Fighting Ground; A ..

... and in doing so scored some immediate and spectacular triumphs, which ranged in the literary field from the books of Joseph Conrad to those of Mrs. E. M. Hull. If some of his stories are apocryphal, they bear retelling in his own lighthearted manner ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1315 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE: SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE; THE HUNTED; AURORA DAWN; CLOSE QUARTERS

... literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I could well believe that Mr. Guerard had studied the Brontes and Joseph Conrad, and that Mr. Wouk is an enthusiast about Sterne and Anatole France, while neither of them shows any sign of caring for ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1356 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

Book Reviews

... idealism William Morris would thoroughly have approved, in a series of dampish cottages in the Romney Marsh area. He became Joseph Conrad's neighbour, collaborator and friend, and also moved into the urbane circle surrounding Henry James in his house at Rye ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1865 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF RUPERT CROFT-COOKE: OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE

... age of giants. A periodical which could have in its first number original contributions from Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, H. G. Wells, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and W. H. Davies, seems an almost fabulous thing ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1394 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF: OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE; THE HEART OF THE MATTER; ALL THE KING'S MEN; THE BRIGHT PROMISE; THE ..

... (haber and haber 10s. bd.) THE VOICE OF THE CORPSE. By Max Murray. (Michael Joseph 8s. bd.) THE HEART OF THE MATTER. When Joseph Conrad died in 1924 there seemed to have died with him a whole literary tradition. He had no immediate followers and a stream ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1367 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

A Journey of the Mind

... least acceptable of that author's long, illustrious list of works. The Moment of Silence is a brilliant re-evaluation of Joseph Conrad with which ranks, in fresh ness as to perception, the essay Stendhal and Beyle. And in this fiction group, the contemporary ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2068 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review