... The two first volumes of Men and Books, a series of Literary Biographies, published by Longmans Green at 10s. 6d., are JOSEPH CONRAD, by Oliver Warner, and BERNARD SHAW, by A. C. Ward. DOSTOIEVSKY (Arthur Barker. 8s. 6d.), by C. M. Woodhouse, is a further ...

... only as a scholar, but as a sailor who knows its waters both under sail and in steam. He had his own full-rigged ship, Joseph Conrad, and sailed her among the islands of the East Indies, and he served, as squadron commander of landing craft, on the Arakan ...

... by Henry James (Oxford 5T'vty Press. 8s. 6d.), MODERN IRISH SHORT JURIES, selected bv Frank O'Connor (7s. netl. and Joseph Conrad's VICTORY (8s. 6d. net). R.C. E. ...

... admirable subject for Mr. de la Bedoyere's biography. Mr. Richard Curie has written an original kind of literary study in JOSEPH CONRAD and His Charac ters (Heinemann. 21s.). For one thing, Mr. Curie analyses not the writer so much as his stories, and the ...

... block. At one time it was claimed to be the oldest inn in England, and it was a favourite haunt of Charles Dickens and Joseph Conrad. The Committee for the Preservation of Rural Kent is trying hard to prevent its destruction, but their efforts may be in ...

... could be, in a country not his own, when he lived, wrote and flourished in Kent. Mr. Jocelyn Baines' critical biography, JOSEPH CONRAD (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 42s.), is the best study, and certainly the most fully documented, that I have read on this author ...