... Kna s HERMAN MELVILLE'S life is very curiously divided. His time of seafaring was not long, and he had no desire, as Joseph Conrad had, to become proficient as a mariner. He sailed before the mast to Liverpool in 1837, but returned to America and was ...

... 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 ...