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THE E%Sf'S FIRM KISS

... THE E%Sf'S FIRM KISS. The following qnotation from Mr. Joseph Conrad's book Youth, a Narrative. gives a description of a young merchant sailor's first sight of the East. Be had undertaken the perilous journey (he knew the ship was almost doomed before ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1903
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 730 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE FASCINATION OF THE SEA•

... THE FASCINATION OF THE SEA• Mr. Joseph Conrad is a lover of the sea. and of ships. too. In The Mirror of the sea: Memories and Impressions (Methuen). he writes: Odi et amo may well he the confession of those who consciously or blindly have surrendered ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1906
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR. CONRAD IN AN EAST WIND

... MR. CONRAD IN AN EAST WIND. Mr. Joseph Conrad's word-pictures are always graphic. Take the following from The Mirror the Sea (Methuen and Co.), a book full of good things for those who like effective writing: The dry, easterly weather, when it turns ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1908
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... new monthly magazine, the Enty Review, promises wt. as one of its leading features, an autobiography from the nen of Mr. Joseph Conrad. the novelist. That should certainly make a piece of arresting writing. Mr. Conrad was born • Pole, and, being moved to ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1908
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2421 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... artist, woe: makes the brightest ef:ert of tho English magazine detective story look childish by comparison. the way. Mr. Joseph Conrad is said to be preparing his reminiscences for publication during the present year. Mr. Conrad was born in Russia, and is ...

Published: Friday 04 February 1910
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5932 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE MUSSELBURGH NEWS, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1911. READERS AND WRITERS ♦ CHATTY COLUMN ON BOOKS AND

... plod to see that the List • widow of poor John Davidson, the poet, gets £75 a year, Mr. W. B. Yeats gets £l5O, and Mr. Joseph Conrad, the novelist, gets £lOO. But why one novelist more than another? One would like to know on what principle. if any. Civil ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1911
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1523 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... Work of Joseph Conrad. Tile made..• whose taste in novels is really good has long since recognised Mr Joseph Conrad as a man of mark. lie has created a public for himself of a roniarkabk kind, and this public will be ready to weleonic his rominiteenoas ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1912
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEW PORN OF GRENADE

... contemporary novelist, like his forerunner, should be fond of giving seamen prominent places in his imagined scenes. Mr Joseph Conrad, the eminent Polish-born story teller we are proud to acclaim a naturalised Englishman. gives his reasons for doing this ...

Published: Friday 23 April 1915
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1896 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOVRIL IN FICtION

... to a tea shop for a cup of Bovril when she is pale and wan, and Bovril is the first thought of the man of resource in Joseph Conrad's powerful novel, Within the Tides. at the time of the wreck. Even animals are not overlooked, and the famous elephant ...

Published: Friday 20 April 1917
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE MIN WHO DON'T GIVE UP

... which Admiral Lord Beath• presented the medals awarded for life-boat services in 1922, and . a notable tribute from Mr Joseph Conrad, who speaks of the life-boat service as the service which does not give up. There is an account of Prince of Wales' ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1923
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MUSSELBURGH NEWS, FREDA ti DECEMBER 5. 1924

... lecture Mr Milne made brief reference to the loss which the world of letters had sustained during this year by the death of Joseph Conrad and Anatole France. The second part of his subject related to Chas. J. Wells, the author of a clever dramatic poem, Joseph ...

Published: Friday 05 December 1924
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1418 | Page: 2 | Tags: none