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... NOVELS OF JOSEPH CONRAD. Are They Read To-day? Mr Alec. Tait, Fraserburgh Academy, discussed the novels of Joseph Conrad at last night’s meeting of the Peterhead Literary Society, Lfr R. 1. Brown was in the Chair, It is doubtful (Mr Tait said) if Conrad ...
... THE ART OF JOSEPH CONRAD. Lonmay Minister’s Lecture. Rev. J. M. Finlayson, Lonmay, delivered last night, to the members of the Peterhead Literary Society, one of those biographical lectures which he treats in a manner that is all his own. On past occasions ...
... WHEN JOSEPH CONRAD SAILED WITH A PETERHEAD SKIPPER. I the thrilling narvative which follows. a graphic glimpse is given of the golden age of sail, when the elipper ships were the smartest things that sailed the seven seas. Peterhead gave many notable ...
... TUESDAY & WEDNESDAYGEORGE O'BRIEN and strong supporting cast in From the Novel by JOSEPH CONRAD. ...
... In The WEST CHURCH HALL, MONDAY, 25th FEBRUARY, at 7.45 p.m. LECTURE, by REV. J. M. FINLAYSON, M.A., 8.D., Lonmay, ‘** JOSEPH CONRAD.” SILVER COLLECTION From Non-Members. Meets in the SOUTH CHURCH HALL, BACKGATE, EVERY SUNDAY, at 3 p.m. Speaker for Sunday ...
... Henty; * The Master of the Shell,” T. B. Reed; * The Spoilers,” Rex Beach. From the Reading Society :— Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad; * Strange Roads,” Maud Diver ; “ Jaffery,” W. J. Locke; ** Sonia Masried,” Stephen McKenna ; *“ The War and Eliz., Mrs ...
... such a remarkable success in ‘The Land of Smiles'? Then, of course, we lack good story-writers and dramatists. If only Joseph Conrad were alive to-day ! True, he was a Frenchman, but he proved one of the most popular novelists in thinl country.” “I quite ...
... which arrived in Peterhead on Christmas morning would have proviled rich material for that wonderful sca writer, the late Joseph Conrad. The vessel in question, the Bonden, left Hadiksvaal on 29th November witn a cargo of timber for Peterhead on a trip that ...
... make way vehicular traffic. Among the famous, then still o the high seas, were Capta William Stuart, who taugh novelist Joseph Conrad the rope: and, Captain Andrew Shewa whiose book, The Days of Sail, was always in popular demand at 1 Public Library. Such ...
... fast as the witness. In other words, thirty-five miles an hour, SPOT THESE MISTAKES. (1) Richard Tauber is a tenor. (2) Joseph Conrad was of Polish parentage. (3) Ben Jonson is the correct spelling. (4) There are no theatres, cinemas or music halls within ...
... Loch Etive, on Christmas Day, 1892, arrived in Hobson's Bay from the Tail of the Bank in 70 days. He it was who trained Joseph Conrad in the art of clipper sailing. Another of his officers was Captain Alexander Birnie (“Pearl King”) of Wellbank. The new ...
... regaled the members of the Peterhead Literary Society with a flueat and penetrating analysis of the life and works of Joseph Conrad. He had already done the same with Chesterton, Shaw and Galsworthy: and as a feat of memory, based-—as it must be—on a ...