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CONRAD'S LAST.
AN UNFINISHED NOVEL OF NAPOLEONIC TIMES.
BCSPENSE. Joseph Conräd. (Dent, is. 6.) This is the novel on which Joseph Conrad was at work at the time of his death in August 1994. Although he left it unfinished he had written some 80,000 words of it, and the great fragment shows clearly that, when finally revised and developed, it would have been a most remarkable and impressive achieve-
ment.
GLUES AND CHEMICALS.
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The Aith ordinary general meeting of British Glues and Chemicals, Limited,
was held on September 9th at the Canner- street. Hotel. London, EC,
TUBE UNDER THAMES.
THE TUNNELLER AND HIS JOB,
Day and night men have been working under the bed of the Thames between Waterico and Charing Cross, entting a new tunnel for the Hampstead and High gate Railway. It is expected that the tunnel will be finished by next January.
It has been decided to extend this Tube beyond the Thames, and a loop is beinit
Mr. T. Walton, F.C.A, who presided, constructed which will go front Charing in moving the adoption of the report and Cross to Waterloo and Kennington and accounts, said: Our trading profit nf back to Charing Cross. It will also join 12,340 compares with fo, last year, up with the lines to Mordan and Clap and during the year our surplus of liquid | häm.
assets uver fiabilities--has grown from Waterloo tube station is being rebuilt to 200,531. Our factories have >The time is 1814, when Napoleop is on Cross. This will mean that passengers
and extensions are being made at Charing been maintained in an efficient condition out of revenue, and we have added over the island of Elba, and the main scenes, from the Hampstead Bailway will go £30,000 to our depreciation reserve. It is as far as written, are placed in Genon,straight through to Waterlon instead of proposed that one half-year's arrears of where a young, aristocratic Englishman, changing at Charing Cross.
Preference dividend be paid at the end. called Cosmo Lathami, who is making the The tuanelling is being undertaken fhm of this month. The sphere of aar activi-" grand tour, finds himself enveloped in the Waterloo end. The excavations in ties is widening, and our products are the Embankment Gardens are for the pur-increasingly well known and highly re- pose of enlarging Charing Cross tubegarded at home and abroad. The Co-
tinental manufacturer still has the advan tage of lower labour costs, but we have held our own. Our research work is pre- socuted with unulated vigone, and we are obtaining vahualde benefits from co-opern tion between works and Inboratory. Working "bosis show a pleasing improve,
a web of intrigue that centres round the invisible Emperor.
atation.
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We are introduced to a large number of strange and fascinating characters: IN COMPRESSED AIR. Young Latham, himself, ac unusual type
The river tunnellers, curiously enough, of adventurous idealist; his faithful are o at present working in compressed manservant; the beautiful, tragic Coun-air, but those in the Embankment par- tess de Montovesso, daughter of a Freuchens, are. The reason is that the tunnel
mige, who had long stayed with the under the river has so far been hored ment. Conditions remain dificult, and Lathains in England; her cunning through solid blue clay-known as Ion-though we have experienced an improve- buffoon of a husband; her "enigmatic step-daughter: Dr. Martel, a wandering, slightly duties Englishman-and many
more.
The atmosphere of underground plot. ting and of queer mystery is presented with Conrad's extraordinary power, and there is
breathless, whispering air about the story, which," coupled with a wonderful creation of character gives to the whole book the impress of "a real. masterpiece.
SHADOW OF NAPOLEON.
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dun clay, and really grey in colour. 'At Charing Cross, however, the excavators frequently strike what is called ballast." This dilalits water, and an air pressure of 10 pounds is used here to keep the water Gut medically examined before going down, Every man working at Charing Cruss is and electric engines of a total horse- power of 125 is used for getting the air-
pressure.
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Elaborate precantions are taken to on- sure that a ballast pocket Atruck during the Thames snelling Should the clay give out the plant is there When the book stops short its true ready to supply the compressed air. scheme has never yet been divulged and Tests are made, and there is constant the various plotters have never yet some uservation of the clay. The tunnel is properly together or shown their handaping feet below the river"bed, and the In the background, we feel the shadow. men work behind an 11-foot shield. of Napoleon over all thee. Egures, and young Cosme was actually on his way to Elba when Conrad laid down his pen.
No one can say how the book would have ended or what was in Conrad's mind, for, as Mr. Richard Curle relates in his introduction, Conrad told him on the day before he died that he saw five or six different lines of treatment that he might follow in what he yet had to write. Thus the title of the book has a double significance: it well conveys the tense feeling of the drama nd it is also symbolic of the suspense of the reader that can never now be relieved.
All admirers of Conrad will have a lasting regret that he did not live to give us a picture of Napoleon; we see him only one and that through, the medium of a repeated conversation, Conrad, as is well known, was a pro Found student of Napoleonic times, and undoubtedly he would have given us a very fine portrait of the Emperor and one founded upon historio reality. His vision of the uneasiness of Southern Europe during the period of Napoleon's sojourn in Elba is wonderfully sugges tive, and shows to what good effect he had studied history and local conditions.
There enn be little doubt that if Con.
Tad bad lived to complete and finally revise Suspense,' he would have shortened some of the earlier sections and brought us more quickly to the cen tral idea. But even as the book stands, a huge fragment in need of some con- densing, it is quite obviously the work of a great master who had not lost his creative powers or the splendour of his. vision.
There is an interesting frontispiece," frond a deawing by Mr. Muirhrad Bone, of Conrad and Captain Bone of the Tuscania done in the Atlantic in April 1993, when Conrad was on his way to America
ENGLISH EMBROIDERIES.
WILL BE POPULAR THIS AUTUMN.
Trimmings and embroiderics of all kinds play a big part in the fashion schemes for nutumn. Nottinghamem- braidery has reached so high a level now that experts consider it rivals trimminga made in Paris. Nottingham chenille embroidery is used on many of the new th conts and forms panels on smart frocka
"FISK, MAPLE LEATHER,
Leather is atill much used this season for trimmings. The newest kind is brightly coloured and is covered with a tooled broché pattern in gold. The shoe makers are also making use of this patterned leather. In another novel leather trimming a cross work of grey and red suede straps forms a checked band edged with black chenille. In this and other colours'it is used on cuffs and collar
Widk insertions for frocks show a bold Jower design in black or coloured leather edged with gold, the scarlet and green being specially effective. Very staart is a design of black patent leather on transparent, coloured tinsel grounds These trimmings are sold by the yard and are a boon to the home dressmaker.
VELVET TRIMMINGS.
iland in hand with the fashion for velvet goes the popular liking for velvet trimmings. The lovelicat effects are pro- duced with velvet appliqué flowers, hand painted in natural colours on chiffon frocks, and the velvet petals of artificial lowers aro pulled off and applied straight on the gown in some cases,
DOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG BWEEKLY PLEBS, January to June, ze close-patterned lace dyed in bright
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TRON AND CEMENT LINING. None 27,000 tons of iron will he used to line the river tunnel, and behind these iron "rings" rement is squeezed by means of compressed air.
The men who carry, out this under: from job to joh. They are all subject to ground tunneling are experts who travel a malady known colloquially as the ** bends. into the hood of a person who does not It is caused by the air getting take proper precautions when emerging from compressed air..
ment, it would be wrong, in view of the general trading conditions of the country, to conelle that I think our company bas quite "won through." Nationally we baye not sufficiently realised that the price to be paid for recovery is sustained intelligent effort.
I profoundly regret that, whilst the Press gives prominence to the views of economists and financiers, the imperative necessity for individual and collective effort all workers is not sufficiently ment. The necessity is continually being often hämmered home by the Cover- urged by business nien, but their remarks most usually appear only in the reports of company meetings, and are probably, therefore, read mainly by only certain classes. In consequence, I fear, the con- tributions of the economists, as reported in the news columns, have a greater in.... seis of leaders of commerce, who, from: fluence on the public mind than the coun- actual experience, know" the necessity, from director to youngest employee, for hard work. The Press could render a great national service by giving more business leaders, for the way to success prominence to the exhortations of oue is work with the will to win.
uptimistic in regard to the early fature. I am not, for reasons I have explained).
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