... years in different ways is patent to the most super ficial observer of the human comedy. Now we have the authority of Mr. Joseph Conrad that the in experience of the man of forty- is a much more serious thing than the inexperience of a youth of twenty in ...

... good writer will not go long unrecog nised in these times. Recognition may not come immediately as it did not come to Joseph Conrad but it will come, and will not usually wait until genius is dead and buried and often it comes quickly and fully. Another ...

... 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 ...

... Cadurcis in Venetia Charles Dickens is Mr. Gushy in Endymion; and Lord Granville is Lord Rawchester in the same novel. Mr. Joseph Conrad has written a critical essay on tlie work of Henry James, which he places on a very lofty eminence indeed. His books stand ...

... 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 ...

... A. S. Cope, R.A., and Mr. William Llewellyn, A.R.A. Mr. John Gals worthy, Sir J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, E. F. Benson, Joseph Conrad, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and other first-rate writers, who send characteristic work; while, to return to the art side, ...

... 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 ...

... old kit-bag, and stroll off to one of those islands in the Pacific, or some other luke-warm ocean, after the fashion of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, or Robert Louis Stevenson. How splendid to sit about all day in the warm sun, with plenty to eat and ...

... blew a kiss to a lady in the stalls, which mightily interested the pit people. Authors at f°PPe,d f tou ?ave a Auction Joseph Conrad manuscripts before they were sold off at Hodgson's. When I arrived they were auctioning the books which had been given ...

... Bill became public. Two rr-- p-Ti most distinguished names on the sick-list lyJJ were those of PRINCESS CHRISTIAN and JOSEPH CONRAD. 2nd, F R I D A Y Easter Law Sittings end. SIR EDWARD ELGAR, greatest English musician for two centuries, born near Wor ...

... present who is in the public eye at the moment everybody from Lytton Strachey to Lord Hugh Cecil, and from Sidney Webb to Joseph Conrad. Every victim of Max's humour had been invited, and, since there are eighty-three pictures on show, you can imagine how ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. MR. JOSEPH CONRAD has at length published his long- expected new book. It contains three stories, or rather, sea- studies. Youth, which gives the title to the work, is by far the most striking. It is a wonderful piece of writing ...