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YOUTH AND YEARS IN NEW BOOKS

... century ago Mr. Hind was the guest of Mr. Wells at Spade House has he, Hind, for once, forgotten a name Sandgate, and Mr. Joseph Conrad, emerged from the inland farmhouse, where he was then living, was another guest I remember H. G.'s quick, blue, watching ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1527 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

DIARY OF A MAN ABOUT SCOTLAND: Mrs. Baldwin Christens a Clydeside Liner--Glasgow's Gala Day--Irish Whisky as a ..

... make up for in other ways. In recent years they have become quite entitled to that much abused term palatial. I saw Joseph Conrad off from Glasgow in April 1924, on an Anchor liner, tor a visit to the United States his first and last and the luxury ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1928
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1783 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

How The Book World Wags

... distant author drew them into a knowledge of a little by-product from his pen. Some of you may have tried the novels of Mr. Joseph Conrad and found them rather hard going, because they can be that. He has just been on a visit to America and the Americans found ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1783 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

A Bookman's Breviary

... , because he has the stuff in him. Some other new books, not novels, worth read ing, may be mentioned Last Essays. By Joseph Conrad. Dent. 7s. 6d. Most of these twenty essays were written after the publication of Notes 011 I.ife and Letters, and they ...

Published: Saturday 13 March 1926
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1793 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GAMBLE OF BOOKS

... Hichens. An interesting thing is that Mr. Knittel is a. Swiss, and that he writes in English, which recalls the case of Mr Joseph Conrad, now a master of English, once a Polish boy. Mr. Hichens, who is not accustomed to give praise where it is not due, thinks ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1739 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Old Familiar Faces in Books

... and low. A short story, which has an odd history, comes from Duckworth, The Nature of a Crime. It was written by Mr. Joseph Conrad and Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer, but, judging from introductions contributed to it by both of them, they could only remember ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1924
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1946 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

A New Heroine for the English Novel

... contents and in their beauty It is certain that they sell well, for of that there has been a recent test in the case of Joseph Conrad, not every reader's writer, though, beyond doubt, he was a great writer. His har- rhonious edition must have brought good ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1924
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1983 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

The Popular Books of Nineteen-Twenty

... 'Popular Books of Margot's masterpiece of alarums and excursions was the beSt seller of the year, beating even novels But in Joseph Conrad's Rescue and Gilbert Frankau's Peter Jackson we got Stories that continue. A FRIEND of mine, who is a busy man, always ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1212 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

A Leisure Hour with Books

... c A Leisure Hour with Books BY cJAMES MILNE 111! l L ..si The Prince of Wales as an author Joseph Conrad's romantic career John Galsworthy's new Saga A Hichens novel a Shakespearean theory and other light and leading. IT is pleasant to hear that the ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1926
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1273 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

SUMMER BOOKS IN LONDON: The Summer Season of Books ends with the London Season of Society, although that may be ..

... not, maybe, in its ancient beauty, at a trifling price, but it is back again plentifully. For instance, you can get Mr. Joseph Conrad's Tales of Unrest at half-a- crown, a most worthy greeting. Equally grateful it is to have a large popular public awaiting ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1922
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1420 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

The Abiding Note in Literature

... idealised a remark able personality in a delightful way. The attractive style and justness of phrasing has common cause with Joseph Conrad's preface, printed here for the first time, to a new edition of Stephen Crane's classic war novel, The Red Badge of Courage ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1925
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1635 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs