... Frejus, on the French Riviera, the main headlines this week have been provided by news from the sea. Not without reason did Joseph Conrad regard it as a mysterious, hostile element liable to expend its fury capriciously on those.. that sail upon it. Because ...

... Walpole. i No man sympathises with the | sorrows of vanity.—Samuel Johnson. | Vanity plays lurid tricks with I our memory.—Joseph Conrad. Nothing is so ecredulous as vanity, or so ignorant of what be| comes itself.—Shakespeare. ...