... question Mr Hughes is notable apart from the wind in Jamaica for his beard and his pipe The former makes him look rather like Joseph Conrad with whom he has also much literary affinity in devotion the sea and flair for natural descriptions The latter places him ...

... literature loses pleasing and industrious figure He belonged to the of romantic writers which followed in the tradition of Joseph Conrad author of classics of romantic fiction like Romance and Typhoon” This school now somewhat out-of-date” believed weaving ...