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Joseph Conrad THE MIRROR OF CONRAD. By E. H. Visiak. (16s. Laurie.)

... Joseph Conrad THE MIRROR OF CONRAD. By E. H. Visiak. (16s. Laurie.) In this study of Conrad, E. H. Visiak seeks to relate the experiences of the man to the development of the artist. His task is made at the same time easier and more difficult by the ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1955
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The Greenwich Dory

... The Greenwich Dory Mr Alan Villiers, former master and owner of the fully-rigged ship Joseph Conrad, who is a trustee of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, has just received as a gift from Portugal a 14-foot fishing boat known as a Portuguese ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1955
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 814 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Life of a Contented Sailor

... Line's successful entry into the ‘lriends he mentions elgecialgheld of long-distance cruising. Christopher Morley and Joseph Conrad;| The Fairfield-built motorship ‘and followers of the landborne Se€ots- | Circassia which Sir David commanded man's Log ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1955
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 549 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

AUSTRALIAN CHOSEN AS MAYFLOWER CAPTAIN

... the US. Commander Villiers, an Australian, first went to sea in sail in 1919. In 1934 he bought the famous sailing ship Joseph Conrad, and sailed her round the world. The selection of the Mayflower's crew will be largely left to him. Like her predecessor ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1955
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Ghostly Tour

... attracted to find Professor Gwyn Jones holding his own with his masterly study in the gruesome, * The Pit.” Two more of Joseph Conrad's novels, The Secret Agent and The Rover, are now published in Nelson's Classics (5s each.) The first of these is one of ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1955
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

A Scotsman’s Log

... Edinburgh. . Amonf the umg famous authors who have written for the &(u of the magazine are Bulwer n, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, “ lan Hay,” Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Axel Munthe, Neil Munro, and Nevil Shute. A vast number of unknown ...

Published: Wednesday 21 December 1955
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 584 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE “SAGE OF – BALTIMORE ” Mencken’s Love of Newspapers

... career as a man of letters. He had always been interested in literature; he had been the chief salesman in America of Joseph Conrad and was one of the earliest patrons of Sinclair Lewis. But he was also fascinated by languaa:. and _‘published in 1919 ...

Published: Monday 30 January 1956
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 780 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Chatty Side of the News

... Bookshop. Mr Parker began his duties on the liner's maiden voyage in late September 1922. His bookshop was visited by Joseph Conrad and Sir Muirhead Bone when. in April 1923, Conrad travelled for the first time on a liner and made his first voyage to ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1956
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Woman’s Outlook Famous names: Centenaries of 1957 (1l) VISIONARY POET AND TURF NOVELIST William Blake and Nat Gould

... buoyant lyric movement” An exotic phenomenon lit up the horizon of modern English fiction in the Polish personality of Joseph Conrad, or Teodor Josef Konrad Kor:enlowski‘ (1857-1924), who in 1886 assumed British nationality and at the same time became ...

Published: Monday 31 December 1956
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 673 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... cidentally, a Scottish novelist, in the hreezy. fascinating story of the passage person of Eric Linklater, was handnf the Joseph Conrad from Rio to somely served in the dramatisation of Qudne- How constantly engrossing his “Private Angelo” by Eric Ewans. ...

Published: Monday 25 February 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 549 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MEMORIES OF CONRAD Talk in the “High Seas Bookshop”

... MEMORIES OF CONRAD Talk in the “High Seas Bookshop” IT seemed strange to me that even late in life Joseph Conrad ,should have ccntinued to speak English with a very pronounced foreign accent: for B el e hat, e y birth and upbrin , had, many years before ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1957
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 833 | Page: 4 | Tags: none