... It does not follow that a best-selling novel of one time will be in that enviable position next time. Thus we have had Joseph Conrad's new book, The Rover, published late in the season. He is not popular in the ordinary meaning of that word, and he would ...

... walk the plank of high adventure and come off successful every time. We shall find a more sombre form of adventure in Joseph Conrad's unfinished novel, which, very rightly, is to be published as he left it. Thus it will be a fragment, not a full, rounded ...