... THACKERAY'S “PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.” “T only met Thackeray once,” writes Joseph Conrad, “and that was at the table of my friends in Wiltshire, the Welbores of the Barrow. The party, except for the great novelist, consisted entirely of country friends, aud ...

... America. - VR A Perhaps the most wonderful example of & mar capturing a language that is not his cwn is mfl)pli«i by Lfl Joseph Conrad, the novelist. Mr. Conrad is a Pole, and although Poland has mo sea coast, he was a sailor beforc he was a writer. He not ...

... tobacco. A very paingtaking composer, he considered his manuseripb several times before sending it to the printer. Mr. Joseph Conrad, the writer of sea-tales, is a high-born Pole. At quite an early age he ran away to Hamburg, and bezan his career as a ...

... approximate in this country. THE RoMANTIC THAMES.—Amongst the great commercial streams of these islands the Thames (says Joseph Conrad, in the “London Magazine ) is the only one open to romantic feeling, from the fact that the sight of human labour and ...