... of and a more general respect for a difficult calling than any which obtained in t:..2 1920's and 1930'5. The word of Joseph Conrad. William M'Fee and David Bone, fine noble prose as much of it was, was not sufficient. It is in the schools of these islands ...

... the plain everyday tale, so routine that it passes uncomprehended. It was not accidental, perhaps, that it was a Pole, Joseph Conrad, born far from the salt water, who took his master's ticket under the Red Duster and wrote that great book The Mirror ...