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the spaciousness of the country of which it is written-the Wilt- shire Downs-the quiet simplicity of the contours of its chalk hills, its limpid atmosphere,
the astringency of its herbs, and the |warmth of its workers' homes. A few young writers at " It represents the English mind London dinner were discussing and the English land as those of their contemporaries, and were jus, to whom England is the free doing it with freedom and and comfortable and out of omniscience. They seemed to whose essential virtues Shakes- have no doubts. They selected peare, Milton, and Keats appear- and placed in order of merit the ed, would have them represented. names of English authors who
are now at work. There werel frequent cries of derision, for each
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THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE.
FO
JOSEPH CONRAD.
There was no hesitation at all
bad his own odd opinion. With is confessing Joseph Conrad as a the same irresponsible conviction master, though not on the plea they would have planted rows of that he is a novelist, in the sense cabbages. The subject was not of Thomas Hardy's mastery of being treated with any gravity.that form. To those of the Eng- But an American who was pre-lish rate, who, to use Stevenson's sent, anxious to take away with phrase, like to "fool about him the opinions most likely to boats": who have a regard for last longest, demanded the names our traditions of the sex, and for of those contemporary prose writ. their own memories of ships and the younger men really men and deep waters. which is considered to be their masters.
o different in kind from The disputants then began fo what others fee for the atmos- make bread pills in all seriousness.phere and memories of our old It is all very well to joke about cathedral cities. Conrad has a the best sellers, and to make cock.place apart, which it is not quite shies of the new reputations of easy to explain, except to those the men who hurried critics, not of a kindred spirit and with kin feeling quite sure of themselves.dred memories, though they may make a habit of treating with pot aecessarily have a native feel- respectial and non-critical careng for what British seamen call but the American was deliberate the Red Ensign: for there is a and wanted his evidence, and no sense in which the fraternity of the more jokes.
sea, speaking different tongues. sal under an invisible flag which covers all national flags: a sense One of them named Thomas communion given by alike ordeel Hardy, without reserve, and landl'a common fare. We are in a evidently with no doubt, that now era now. The modern steam- anyone would question that ship with her wireless, has re- choice. There was no question | duced the size of the planet. The raised. The opening of The men who knew ships no farther Return of the Native iş a off than the early 80's are nearer miraculous piece of descriptive the time and life of the Elizabe- writing, yet in fall accord with thans then we are to them. It the spirit and design of the novel, was then that the period of the which is master-piece. If sailing ship was closing, and some Hardy had written nothing else of the clippers then afloat were. he migh: claim his mastership. in their waythroughlong evolution But as it is, he presides over con-and a final stress of inspiration, temporary English letters as he as great and beautiful an achieve- does over modern human affairs, ment of man 25 the Gothic with superior countenance of cathedrals. Those who have seen sad regard, as though he had such a ship as the Torrent, the been watching us for long, and Cutty Sark or the Thermopylae. liked us well, but had his pro-under full sail in the tropics, will found doubts. Hardy has ceased know what I mean; and those. to write. except an occasional who have had such a ship for a poem, but his bad interpretation home will know what Joseph of the vision we have of life is as Conrad means by much that he native to our own time, and to sa s finely, with a touch of dig- the young, as the war.
nity and aloofness in The Higher **THE PURPLE LAND".
of the Narcissus." That era is passed.
It is the greatest good After his name was mentioned, fortune for the English that its there was a pause. Then one of most intimate spirit has been them said: I suppose we shall presented to them. by Conrad, all agree about W. H. Hudson.in a prose which is in the great A few years ago this would tradition. Singelton, a seamen have been & bald venture of the Narcissus is a miraculous
Would have needed all embodiment of the the wit and knowledge of that British mean when they speak the speaker to maintain his wayward of their seamen. He is the most case. However, it was passed faithful portrait of a mariner in It was not passed at once. Το
our fiction. But Mr. Conrad's
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