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Gleanings in Bookland

... picture of a black Bilboa tramp suggests how fitted he might be to do drawings for Joseph Conrad's writings. We have a delightful volume about Con rad, Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him, by his wife, to whom those of us who play at reading cookery books are ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1926
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1526 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

A Regiment of New Novels

... no patience. It is to be a big season of novels, and most of our well-known novelists will be in it some how. Even Mr. Joseph Conrad, who is not an abundant writer, has a story coming along, The Rover. So has Mr. Arnold Bennett, his fresh offering being ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1639 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GOSSIP OF AUTHORSHIP

... every author who was his client. The last time I met him was in a Kent train on his way back to London from a visit to Joseph Conrad, near Canterbury. He told me how that distinguished writer was getting on with his new novel of Napoleon's time. It would ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1922
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1582 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

YOUTH AND YEARS IN NEW BOOKS

... century ago Mr. Hind was the guest of Mr. Wells at Spade House has he, Hind, for once, forgotten a name Sandgate, and Mr. Joseph Conrad, emerged from the inland farmhouse, where he was then living, was another guest I remember H. G.'s quick, blue, watching ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1527 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

The Letters of Evelyn

... pale-faced people dancing at Hammersmith or watching a play, for the open air and the racecourse. There's an Epstein bronze of Joseph Conrad, and a rather intriguing thing by Cicely Stock of two cockneys sitting in the middle of a clump of park azaleas, which ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1925
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2149 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A WEEKLY LETTER FROM BLANCHE

... well a little dinner at the Carlton or somewhere than on half a scone and a small coffee at a bun shop. According to ft Joseph Conrad, in his I wonderful Chance Man, we know, cannot live by bread alone, but (1 Continued on page 3Q0) IN F.NG LAND-NOW! With ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2075 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Old Familiar Faces in Books

... and low. A short story, which has an odd history, comes from Duckworth, The Nature of a Crime. It was written by Mr. Joseph Conrad and Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer, but, judging from introductions contributed to it by both of them, they could only remember ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1924
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1946 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

A New Heroine for the English Novel

... contents and in their beauty It is certain that they sell well, for of that there has been a recent test in the case of Joseph Conrad, not every reader's writer, though, beyond doubt, he was a great writer. His har- rhonious edition must have brought good ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1924
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1983 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

SAIL: A ... ... and a Necessity

... , by quoting the words of a nini who understood the spirit of the sea probably better than any other writer, the late Joseph Conrad A year, or a year and a half, of training in, sea-going sailing-ship I would regard for a bo, destined for the sea as a ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2004 | Page: 53 | Tags: Photographs 

THUMBNAIL INTERVIEWS WITH THE GREAT: A Series of Intimate Sketches of People in the Public Eye; The Lloyd ..

... of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Keats, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Borrow, Landor, Coleridge, Swinburne, Ruskin, the Brontes. Joseph Conrad, and Shelley. Mr. Wise's collection of Swinburne's work is the most complete in the world, and includes everything Swinburne ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1932 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

DIARY OF A MAN ABOUT SCOTLAND: Mrs. Baldwin Christens a Clydeside Liner--Glasgow's Gala Day--Irish Whisky as a ..

... make up for in other ways. In recent years they have become quite entitled to that much abused term palatial. I saw Joseph Conrad off from Glasgow in April 1924, on an Anchor liner, tor a visit to the United States his first and last and the luxury ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1928
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1783 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

How The Book World Wags

... distant author drew them into a knowledge of a little by-product from his pen. Some of you may have tried the novels of Mr. Joseph Conrad and found them rather hard going, because they can be that. He has just been on a visit to America and the Americans found ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1923
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1783 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs