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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Apbil, 1914 



James Huneker 



The famous critic says that 

 Conrad is: 



The only man in England to- 

 day who belongs to the immortal 

 company of Meredith, Hardy and 

 Henry James. 



Edwin Bjorkman 



Translator of Strinberg, and 

 well-known critic, says: 



I believe that no other writer 

 has surpassed Conrad in the 

 picturing of those two fields of 

 human endeavor — the endlessly 

 variable sea, and the tropics. 



Rex Beach 





Famous novelist, author of 



The 



Iron Trail," "The Net," etc., 



etc., 



says. 





Joseph Conrad stands for 



the 



highest mark in present 



day 



English fiction. I consider 



him 



the greatest living author in 



the 



English language. 





H. G. Wells 



Famous English Novelist, author 

 of "The Passionate Friends," 

 "Tono-Bungay," etc., says: 



One of my chief claims to dis- 

 tinction in the world is that I 

 wrote the first long appreciative 

 review of Joseph Conrad's work. 



Winston Churchill 



Author of "The Inside of the 

 Cup," etc. 



I have long been an admirer of 

 his work, and it will make me very 

 happy if, through your efforts, his 

 books shall get that attention 

 here which they so richly deserve. 



. . . The essential virtue 

 of such writing consists in its in- 

 tensely individual point of view, 

 in the manner and method of 

 presentation not in the thing 

 presented. This kind of "liv- 

 ing" full-charged, dramatic, all- 

 embracing, could alone be re- 

 vealed by this one man. 



The London Times. 

 There is great work in the book 

 — great not only as art, for litera- 

 ture does not begin and end there. 

 From these magnanimous pages 

 breathes the spirit of a man who 

 has lived and learnt the lessons of 

 life. 



Evening Standard and St. James 

 Gazette. 



. . . The whole book is 

 in the absolute proportion of a 

 work of art . . . he (Con- 

 rad) is one of the really great 

 original creators. His people live 

 in the assurance of an ever- 

 lasting existence. They are not 

 creatures of time at all, for they 

 are not made simply to reflect 

 modern problems, but are essen- 

 tially the immortal inhabitants 

 of a peopled world — our own 

 world made deathless. 



The English Review. 



CHANCE 



By Joseph Conrad 



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AT ALL 

 BOOKSELLERS 



A reader says of this new story by Conrad: 



" Here is a book that so possesses my mind, though 

 I finished it a month ago, that the story of Flora de 

 Barral seems to be in some way a part of my own life. 

 For the first half of the book I kept telling myself that 

 I was not greatly interested, yet I was not content to 

 stop. Unconsciously I was inserting myself into the 

 narrow little lives of the Fynes, into the strange case 

 of the Great de Barral, into the blundering, triumphant 

 love affair of Flora and Anthony. 



" In one tremendous chapter the scattered threads 

 of several lives are caught up, the puzzle of fortuitous 

 human actions pieces itself together into an unforget- 

 table picture, and Chance, that unseen dealer of the 

 cards of life, lays his hand face down upon the table 

 before you " 



Basil King 



Author of "The Inner Shrine," "The Street Called 

 Straight," "Way Home,'' etc., etc., says of "Chance," 



It is a book to be read with the concentration of the tastes with which 

 one savors good wines. The flashes of observation thrown out by those 

 who tell the tale — wise, humorous, or tender, as the case may be — are as 

 remarkable as the tale itself, like the precious stones set in the binding of 

 a missal. But of the book's many striking qualities none is to me more 

 impressive than the degree to which the concluding sentence justifies the 

 quotation from Thomas Browne on the title page, delimiting the significa- 

 tion of the title itself, and rounding out the sphere of the author's thought. 

 Unity of purpose could go no further. 



John Galsworthy 



The English novelist, author of 

 "The Dark Flower," etc., wrote 

 of Conrad's books in 1908. 



The writings of these ten books 

 is probably the only writing of 

 the last twelve years that will 

 enrich the English language to 

 any great extent. 



Every critic will delight in this 

 .book as a characteristic piece of 

 Mr. Conrad's workmanship. One 

 can scarcely think of a novel 

 whose writer has made us see more 

 precisely just what he intended. 

 All these have the mark of inti- 

 mate, final, unforced delineation 

 that is Mr. Conrad's supreme gift. 

 The Pall Mall Gazette. 



It is a red-letter day in the life 

 of a reviewer, when a new novel 

 by Mr. Conrad falls to his lot. 

 . . . Sailormen all the world 

 over must thank Mr. Conrad for 

 adding to his wonderful gallery 

 two such splendid portraits of 

 heroic unselfishness and simple 

 loyalty as Captain Anthony and 

 Mr. Charles Powell of the "Fern- 

 dale." . . . 



The Spectator. 



Coming straight from its spell, 

 indeed still in the entrancement 

 which Mr. Conrad's writing pro- 

 duces, one may well declare the 

 latest to be the best of his books. 

 . . . In this completeness and 

 relevancy, Mr. Conrad has never 

 surpassed "Chance" — that is to 

 say in the sheer art of the thing. 



The London Daily Chronicle. 



Meredith Nicholson 



Author of "Otherwise Phyllis," 

 "The House of a Thousand Can- 

 dles," etc., etc., says: 



I am one of these benighted 

 people who like style for style's 

 sake, and I look on Conrad as a 

 great master. I know of no con- 

 temporary writer who can build 

 a scene before the eye as vividly 

 as Conrad, or who can push a 

 character through the door and 

 leave him to speak for himself 

 as Conrad does. 



Kate Langley Bosher 



Author of "Mary Cary" and other 

 books. 



Joseph Conrad has earned and 

 deserves the place he holds among 

 the best English writers of to-day, 

 and his sincerity of purpose, de- 

 votion to art, and skill of crafts- 

 manship are admitted by all 

 intelligent readers of his books. 

 . . . May the people indeed 

 praise him — as well as the critics 

 — for this his last book, and may 

 they not only praise but BUY!! 



Walter Prichard Eaton 



Well-known critic and short- 

 story writer, says: 



It is that story which absorbs 

 us, as it absorbed him, and we are 

 tense always for his next dis- 

 covery. The method gives to 

 Flora a curious lifelikeness, im- 

 possible to describe, for it keeps 

 her perpetually but half-revealed 

 to us. It is the method of an 

 artist who knows full well what 

 he is about. 



Gouverneur Morris 



Well-known writer of short 

 stories says: 



More and more I hear people 

 say: "Have you read Conrad's 

 latest? " Those who haven't read 

 him are not well-read. Those 

 who don't intend to read him are 

 of a foolish and slovenly mental 

 habit. As for those who are 

 engaged in reading him — for 

 the first time — oh, my word, 

 how I envy them! 



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