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... 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. Loomis hailed as a great seaman by so exigent a critic of mari time performance and marine art as Joseph Conrad, relates in this volume the history of a cruise from Lowestoft to Stockholm and back to Dieppe. Small beer, it will be ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1001 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... extraordinary demand for Mr. Mason's novel. Among others named by Mr. Bumpus were Connor's Glengarry Days, Youth, by Joseph Conrad, and The Vultures, by Merriman. Reprints also of the novels of Jane Austen and Miss Mitford were much in request. At Denny's ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1021 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS

... beaut}', or, as the case may be, making them hollow to the point of mockery. On August 3, 1924, all that was mortal of Joseph Conrad passed away. That which was immortal in him passed on to inspire the expressed grief and homage of a world made poorer ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1949 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

SUNSHADE AND COTILLON

... night, though I had been told by the young actress- manageress that all would end well, and that the wonderful novel of Joseph Conrad would be adhered to except for the denoue ment. Miss Marie Lohr, who appeared in answer to the clamouring for a speech ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 925 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... WEDS, and SATS., at 2.15. VICTORY. A Plav in 3 Acts, by R. MACDONALD H A STINGS. Founded on the celebrated Novel bv JOSEPH CONRAD. T.YRIG. (Ger. 3687) Nightly, 8. DORIS KKANE in RO'XANA. Basil Sydney. Athene Seyler. Matinees Weds, and Sats., at 2.15 ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 767 | Page: 54 | Tags: Illustrations 

WOMAN'S WAYS

... BY ELLA HEPWORTH DIXON. Titles for Women. A savour of perversity marks the proceedings of Man on what Mr. Joseph Conrad calls this melancholy globe. As a rule, people who ardently desire things are not given them, while on those who hold them cheap ...

Published: Wednesday 27 November 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1011 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... arrived by way of Blackwood may be mentioned Miss Beatrice Harraden, Mrs. i hurston, Mr. lMeil Munro, Sydney Grier, Mr. Joseph Conrad, Mr. Bernard Capes, and Mr. John Buchan. A very scholarly book on Shakspere's London has been published by an American ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1024 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

WOMAN'S WAYS: She Who Knows

... the man's point of view, for he must occa sionally realise that he is be ing got at by strange and devious ways. As Mr. Joseph Conrad puts it The part falling to women's share be ing all influence has an air of occult and mysterious action, something not ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1082 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE DAY THAT WAS

... Blanchette In the West Countrie, August i. Dear Cousin HERE in the distant restfulness of Devon and the peace of the sea (as Joseph Conrad once called it) I think one feels perhaps even more than ever what that Day means which happens this week. August the Fourth ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1927
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1065 | Page: 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

ODDS AND ENDS OF VARIED INTEREST: A Motor Route Map of India

... story by Mr. Rider Haggard, Barbara who Came Back. There are other stories in the number by Mr. E. W. ITornung, Mr. Joseph Conrad, and Mr. G. K. Chesterton, and articles by Mr. T. P. u Connor ana Mr. Lseiioc aitogetner tne magazine contains a fine ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1913
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1075 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Clubman: Mr. Fred Kerr's Cigars

... time, a P^° h and has stories about a And ct Jf lncii. j r .1 rpi good many of them. The other day he told me this about Joseph Conrad and Max Beerbohm. It is Max Beerbohm's own tale. Conrad was naturally a welcome guest anywhere, but his mind did not quite ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1098 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

WAR And The Weather: Throughout The Centuries

... perhaps the finest as it was the final example. The weather at Trafalgar, as a master alike of prose and of seamanship, Joseph Conrad, has written, was not unfavourable, it was dangerous. For some forty minutes the fate of the great battle hung upon a ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1115 | Page: 55 | Tags: Illustrations