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EXPRESS FROM LONDON

... prodigious party since Lolita. The partv was to celebrate the publication of Jameson Raid, bv Elizabeth Pakenham. and Joseph Conrad. by Jocelyn Baines. The guest-list was distinguished which isn’t surprising. because Elizabeth Pakenham is. in real life ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1960
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Conrad: Exile, endurance and fulfilment

... find in *“ Almayer’s Folly” and “Heart of Darkness.” He transferred to the British Merchant Navy, became a naturalised JOSEPH CONRAD. By Jocelyn Baines. (425. Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Briton, and on one momentous voyage met his first reader, a sympathetic ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 443 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Enigmatic figure

... one enjoys In retrospect as well as in the reading. It leaves us fascinated, almost haunted by that enigmatic figure, Joseph Conrad, fundamentally an unhappy one. For him, as for Hardy, “ the forces controlling the universe were impersonal.” He had lost ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

ALSO IN TO-DAY’S ISSUE

... Gibbon ) is marked by a special article by lan S. Munro. Page 7 BOOKS Among books reviewed are Jocelyn Baines's study of _ Joseph Conrad, “Memoirs” of Alexandre Benois, and Lady Pakenham’s “ Jameson’s Raid.” The background and genius of Rimbaud (the subject ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

50 BOOKS AT SHOW Copyright difficulties

... them over translation rights. The Russians had made the decision *“to preserve good-will.” Among authors concerned are Joseph Conrad, G. K. Chesterton, A. J. Cronin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome, Graham Greene, W. Somerset Maugham and Jack ...

Published: Monday 08 February 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

centre Alex. Rodger

... published the work of some of the foremost writers in English—Scott, Susan Ferrier, George Eliot, Neil Munro, John Buchan and Joseph Conrad being but a few. Current lists include an impressive array of economic, military, critical and religious titles, reprints ...

Published: Thursday 05 May 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

D'YE MIND LANG SYNE )

... for their Swallow- Wings yacht sailcloth. They have supplied canvas for great sailing ships such as the Passers and Joseph Conrad. and also gifted the sails that propelled the Mayflower II across the Atlantic a few years ago. About 17 ships took part ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1960
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3050 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

THROUGH THE PEND

... renowned for their ‘Swallow- Wings’ yacht sailcloth. They have supplied canvas for great sailing ships such as the Passet and Joseph Conrad, and also gifted the sails that propelled the Mayflower II across the Atlantic a few years ago. About 17 ships took part ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1960
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Pa pvrbucks for everyman

... John Hampden's col- Panther Books — Alan MO“’{“d‘ lection of Ghost Stories (ss) and The Russian Revolution (3s 6d); ln'd Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the My Glorious Brothers, Howard Fast's Narcissus, Typhoon, and The Shadow novel on the rising of the ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 955 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Landscapes with travellers

... peglect, a trough from which he might to praise the bulk of Arthur's Seat or have accepted the challenge Emma (5s 6d) and Joseph Conrad’s The occasionally be withdrawn only in order the Pentlands or the presence of the It is a commoa remark telt “ few | Secret ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1961
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3131 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

LADY EPSTEIN GIFTS PLASTERS TO JERUSALEM

... Elemental,” ‘“ Esther,” and *“ The Duke of Marlborough,” and, among the portrait sculptures, busts of Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Conrad. Professor Albert Einstein, T. S. Eliot, Awugustus John, Yehudi Menuhin, Pandit Nehru, Bertrand Russell, Haile Selassie ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1961
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 7 | Tags: none