1924-08-04 — Page 1

MOUTRIE

have received

#

NEW

VICTOR RECORDS.

TAME

ADD AIT

China Mail

Temperature 78 Barometer 29.59

Rainfall 0.52 in. Humidity. 86

THE DOLLAR.

ABLISHE: 1848| To-day's closing rate To-day's opening rate

Jey Fluid

RADE

MARK

ALEX. KOSS & Co. (CHINA) LTD.

No. 1.255.

一拜

號四月八年四十二百九千一英

HONGKONG, MONDAY AUGUST 4, 1924.

JOSEPH CONRAD DEAD.

日 四月七子甲大童年三十國應:中

PRICE,

$3.00 Per Month'

NEW

VICTOR RECORDS

TO-DAY.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

Chater Road:

DON'T LOSE YOUR OPPORTUNITY.

OPENING SALE

30% discount

for 3 days only (Frem 1st to 3rd August 1924)

ON

All kinds of Cakes Biscuits, Sweets, Cold Drink, etc.

THE MORINAGA'S CANDY STORE 16, Des Voeux Road Central, Next door to Alexandra Cafe Co.

Telephone No. C. 4702 *

FINEST SWISS

LADIES

WRISLET

WATCHES

SENNET FRERES

PEDDER STREET

(OPPOSITE HONGKONG HOTEL)

SUN LEE

FOR FOOCHOW OIL PAPER UMBRELLAS, BEST FOOCHOW LACQUER WARE

•AND CURIOS

20, POTTINGER STREET, CENTRAL.

MEE WAH KNITTING & DYEING CO.

Manufacierses of Woollen Minglets," Jerseys, Burentars" de

Mei, kinda of Underwear, -18, Causeway Bay.

CRITIC WITH CATHOLIC TASTES.

HOW HUMANITY APPEALED TO HIM.

A Martyr To Gout.

(Reuters. Service.)."

AMERICAN WORLD FLIERS.

STRIKE BAD PATCH OFF ORKNEYS..

ONE MACHINE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED.

TRAWBER · TO RESCUE. *

(Reuter's Service.)

-KIRKWALI, August 31 Lieutenant Wade, the American world flier was forced to decend 115 miles off the Orkneys.

REIKJAVIK, August 30 Lieutenant Wade has been found with his machine, the engine of which was only "silly damaged. The machine will be able to restart very shortly.

ENCOUNTER RAIN AND FOG.

HARNA FIORD, August 3.

Captain Lowell-Smiht, the leader of the.

London, August 3. The death is announced of Mr. Joseph Conrad. the novelist, in his sixty-eighth year.

Joseph Conrad was born In 1857 in the Ukmine, his full hame being Joseph Theodore Conrad Korzeniowski. He went to sen at an early age, became a master in the English merchant service, and shortly after retiring, published his first novel Almayer's Folly" in 1895. This was followed by "An Outcast of the Islands,” “The Nigger of the. Narcissus," "Lord sadzon, and Lieutenant Jim," "Youth," "The Wade encounter- Heart of Darkness," "Typhoon" and other slories: ed. rain-storing Though Mar. Conrad did not learn English till he squall and fog.. was twenty, he was a master of style. In actuality The former has he approached Kipling, and he was unsurpassed as arrived here, but a novelist of the sea'; but it was due to his insight the latter Into the secret places of the mind and to his power forced todescend of interpreting, the inmost life that he stood in the onto the sca front rank of modern European novelists. Among midway between his later works are "Chance," "A Personal Record," here and Scapa Flow.. His "The Shadow" Line." "The Arrow of Gold,"

machine. "Victory," "The Rescue,” and “The Rover.”

taken in tow by a trawler.

CONRAD'S EAST.

It is more than thirty years since Conrad left the East for good and all-his last sight of it was at Colombo in 1889 on his way home after be resigned the command of the s.s."Otago.""Almayer's "Folly," life first book, was not published till 1895. † Inevitably the memory of those distant times turns ed into a source of inspiration. His descriptions of the East have a kind of symbolic force. Conrad's contact with it was not that of a passing traveller. What he saw, he saw as part of his daily life, in' the course of his professional work, associated with the realities and problems of his calling. And that is why_in_his mastery of language, his general descriptions have a stronger actuality after his many years absence than the detailed accounts of yesterday's globe-trotter, Conrad's East is fabulous) only in the sense that there is.something fabulous about the East: in every other respect it is solidly realistic.

1 Many writers have staged their novels in different parts of the world without conveying any kind of atmosphere, but Conrad not only displays in his prose the very splendor and darkness of the East, but he reveals its effect upon the character of the white man and gives, it, as you might say, a philosophic significance. Whether he be successful in his reading of Easterners is difficult to be sure of who is to be the judge-but certainly his Malays appear to have a convincing actuality, which, if more the result of intuitive observation than of long experience, is, at any rate, all ọf a piece.

F

In spite of what some people may think, Conrad was much more concerned with humanity than with nature, and the gorgeous, sombre settings of his Eastern books are not put there as a tour de force, but as something to help with the problems, that are being unravelled in their midst. Conrad's writing is eloquent, but it is not eloquent for the merë sake of 'eloqueace.

--- CONRAD AT HOME.

A close friend of the dead novelist, some two years ago, wrote the following of Mr. Conrad's home life:-

Mr. Joseph Conrad has now lived for more than twenty years in Kent and I have often heard him say that nothing would induce him to leave it for any other English county. His present home is four miles out of Canterbury, and from the windows of his study, where he does att his work, he looks out across his lawns upon a park which slopes upward to a fringe of trees that cut the Horizon.

†

WAS

W45

CAPT. SMITH

story: is called "The Rover," and, deals with an episode ip the blockade of Tuulon in 1503.

The other, which has as yet nó name and will be a full-length book, is concerned with the Medk-" terratican at the time of Napoleon's exile to Elba in 1814. This is what the Press is calling the

Napoleonic novel," but as a matter of fact, al-" though Napoleon does appear personally and though he is always in the background, yet he is not the centre of the story.

Mr. Conrad leads not exactly a secluded life, for he sees many friends from time to time and has usually someone staying over the week-end, but a very quiet one. Both he and his wife are more or less incapacitated from getting about much--she through an injured knee and he through his gout- and they are generally at home..

Mrs. Conrad, like her husband, knows how to maké a visitor welcome, and even a stranger is soon absolutely at case in that delightful household.

Mr. Conrad is a man of no particular hobbies, if you except his abiding interest in humanity (he feels deeply what happens in the world, a genuine sentiment qualified by irony), his love of fine literature, and his passion for the sea. He collects nothing; his study is full of books, but only by chance are they first or fine editions,

In politics his chief concern is with Imperial and foreign affairs, and he is a keen student of the inter-relations of the European States, of the under- lying reasons of great changes, and of the develop- ment of institutions and opinions.

NOTABLE BOOKS.

Joseph Conrad was educated at Cracow. Through his father, who was a political exile, he became familiar in childhood with classical English literature. Joseph Conrad was naturalised in England in 1881, and took his master's certificate. In 1894 he was advised by Mr. John Galsworthy to offer his first novel for publication, and on the recommendation of Edward Garnett it was accepted. Conrad then left the sea, and settled in England, marrying an Englishwoman. He knew

For some years past gout in his hands he has been a martyr to gout ever since that voyage upno English until he was a young man, and still the Congo in the early '90's-has made sustained writing troublesome to him, and the first draft of all his novels is now dictated. He then works over the typescript, rewriting and condensing and the second typescript is made from what ap pears almost like an original manuscript His hours for composition are between breakfast and lunch, and as he works the idea grows upon him, elaborating and elaborating itself from what, in its inception, is sometimes hardly more than a single image.

Never was there a' less :?" bookish" author than Mr. Conrad. If you want to talk to him about his works he is quite prepared to talk, with the sort of courtesy that always assumes that you have under stood his intentions; on the other hand, he would probably rather talk to you about your own affairs or about life in general or about the sea,

spoke it with dimeulty. His work was thought out in Polish, and mentally expressed in French before it was set down in English. "Almayer's Folly," his first novel was followed by An Outcast. of the Islands," "The Nigger of the Narcissus," Tales of Unrest," and "Lord Jim," (1900)-all brimming with sea reminiscenes. "Youth" (1902). and "Typhoon," (1903) proved him a master of the short story. In "The Inheritors," (1901) and "Romance (1902) he collaborated with. Ford Madox Hueffer. "Nostromo" (1904), the story of a South American revolution, well illustrated his, facully for making his characters tell their own tale. The novelist's Slavonie origin shows itself in "The Secret Agent" (1907) and "Under Western Eyes." (1911). Since "Chance," (1914); Mr Conrad has had an ever-widening audience. Later, novels are "Victory" (1915) like so many of his stories, a South Sea yarn The Arrow of Gold” (1919), and "Rescue," (1920). "A Set of Blx," like' Twixt Land and Sea" and "Within the Tides." PA is a volume of short stories. "The Mirror of the It is extremely arresting to hear Mr. Conrad. Sea" (1906) and "Somo Reminiscences (1912) ars discuss the work of other writers, both past and autoblographical; and "Notes of Life and Letters present, for though bis criticism is very clear-eyed, (1921), also helps towards a better vislog of the yet his tastes are wonderfully catholic,

man." By his transfusion of realism with romaner He finds intense pleasure in Dickens, Maupas this blending of rich experience with a vivid sant, Flaubert, Anatole France, Turgeniev, the sune yarns of Cooper and Marryat, some of the novels bagination his surprising command of English Henry James, Stephen Crane, and many another. (an unknown tongue to him till 1878), his masterly His knowledge of Napoleonic times, both from if sometimes laborious unfolding of plot, his contemporary memoirs and military and naval, psychological Insight, his creation of atmosphere, history, is profound and is, proving totalmble, to kla fronic, power, sombre humour" "artistic" and th him in the two novels on which he at presentlyrle sent, air, Courad has established himself engaged. The aborter of the two, which is nearly securely in the very front rank of modern English ? Kuished and is really in the nature of #Hong short, fellows

Although widely read to various Hanguages, both in literature, memoirs, travel, history, and certain technical subjects, the truth is that what appeals to him most is humanity. Consequently, he is entirely free from the self-conscious egotism of some great artists.

'

WHITE SHIRTS

VAN HEUSEN COLLARS in Quarter sizos,

Made of a fine Long cloth, with soft-double or starched single cuffs, the latter being quite correct for wear with white Mess Jackets.

Soft cuffs $8.00. 'Starched' cuffs $6.50.

"KREMENTZ"

sets of studs Birks and vest, butions to match

MACKINTOSH

↓

& CO., LTD. Men's Wear Specialists, Alexandra Building, Das Voeux Road,

To Work in comfort during the day and Rest in comfort during the night, des

SKETOCIDE

and quickly rid the Oitles and Home of a MOSQUITOES, FLIES, SANDFLIES, eta, SKETOCIDE Kills all ingrets.

BRETQUIDH is pleasant in use

BKET CIDE is constaining

SEETOUIDE is nonpoisonouK.

THE PHARMACY.

.Tel. 01. 215.

SHOP

No. 20, Queen's

Central.

THE

[CHEAPEST STCRE

IN. THE

COLONY.

WITH US

AND

YOUR SAVINGS WILL INCREASE.

20% discount on all cotton and woollen goods.

TAI YAU CO., LTD.

.

244-246, Des Voeux Road C.

COATE'S & 00.

Tel C. 2637.

PLYMOUTH GIN

THE PUREST GIN ON THE MARKET

THE ONLY GIN DRUNK BY THE NAVY.

BOLE AGENTS OF

OALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

15, Queen's Road Central.

Tel. 75 Central

WHITEAWAY'S

SUMMER SALE

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR →→SOUND BARGAINS →→

GENUINE

"GILLETTE"

RAZORS

250 ONLY $1.00 EACH.

QUALITY AND FINISH UNSURPASSED.

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO. LTD;