... bank. For forty-nine weeks each year Smith laboured faith fully at his desk. In his free hours during the winter he read Joseph Conrad, Stevenson and E. F. Knight, and he did hardly anything else. But every year in early April Smith suddenly came to life ...

... changeless, ever-changing high-roads. Whatever its origin the phrase sums up the informing spirit of that great writer, Joseph Conrad, which is at once mysterious and incommunicable. The commonplace that all art reveals itself in its own terms and cannot ...

... of excellent yarns, combined with some in teresting gossip about such men as Henry James, J. M. Barrie, W. H. Hudson, Joseph Conrad, Oscar fide, Rider Haggard, Mane C.orelli, and Charles Garvice. I can so thoroughly recom mend these reminiscences, always ...

... idealism William Morris would thoroughly have approved, in a series of dampish cottages in the Romney Marsh area. He became Joseph Conrad's neighbour, collaborator and friend, and also moved into the urbane circle surrounding Henry James in his house at Rye ...

... least acceptable of that author's long, illustrious list of works. The Moment of Silence is a brilliant re-evaluation of Joseph Conrad with which ranks, in fresh ness as to perception, the essay Stendhal and Beyle. And in this fiction group, the contemporary ...

... and Arthur Balfour, F. E. Smith in his cups and F. E. Smith not in his cups, Paderewski, who spoke English as well as Joseph Conrad, that other Pole, wrote it. But never have I enjoyed a speech more than that one by the old Devon wonder. (To content the ...

... new ones and those who had already reached their creative zenith. H. G. Wells and Galsworthy were still writing, so were Joseph Conrad and Arnold Bennett, the latter, alas, in his pot-boiler stage. Sinclair Lewis had burst upon the scene with Babbit at the ...

... after he had spent months travelling half-way round the world in search of a girl to play Aissa in his new production of Joseph Conrad's novel, An Outcast of the Islands. It is now being filmed in Ceylon, with Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard. Robert Morley ...

... Kna s HERMAN MELVILLE'S life is very curiously divided. His time of seafaring was not long, and he had no desire, as Joseph Conrad had, to become proficient as a mariner. He sailed before the mast to Liverpool in 1837, but returned to America and was ...

... lapsed. All through Outcast of the Islands I kept wondering why Mr. Reed had turned back to this cruel, dismal story by Joseph Conrad: he said because he had always wanted to do a Conrad story for the spirit of adventure in them. Whenever a whiff of adventure ...

... Modigliani and Picasso. The Modigliani appears at first sight to be a portrait notably unstylised, for the artist of Joseph Conrad, but is actually of his doctor painted to repay a debt. Artists, if their lives are apt to At the City of London Art Exhibition ...

... excesses and determined ugliness, does not lose hold of the heart. The foreword to Laughing Anne reminds everybody that Joseph Conrad, who appears in the person of Robert Harris, was one of the great story-tellers of his time. Somebody should have reminded ...