Judge — January 16, 1926 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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‘There is no one like him; there is no one remotely like him. ' He sees and describes not merely this man’s love or that woman's inspiration, but the blind sweep and devasta- tion of universal forces. H. L. Mencken ‘Those who haven't read Conrad 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— how I envy them! Some Remarkable Facts About Conrad At AN auction before Conrad’s death, his original manuscripts sold for $110,998. Before his death also, a numbered autographed de Luxe edition of his books was published, the Sun Dial Edition, limited to 735 sets. That number of people promptly came forward and paid, each, $175.75 for one of these sets (a total of $129,176.25). Now, for the most modest book budget comes the Kent Edition of his complete works containing everything in the Sun Dial Edition including spew. 1h tae teeing that here, ai last, is a novelist who understands as the poets do. Christopher Morley 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. H. G. Wells To stand in a Summer stifled, man-smelling city street and to Gouverneur Morris tional volumes besides. small amounts, instead of $175.75 cash. The only writing of the last twelve years that will enrich the English language to any extent. special prefaces written by Conrad for each book, and two addi- feel It will be sold for only $35.00, payable in fros Conrad. John Galsworthy Mary Austin THE NEW KENT EDITION OF JOSEPH CONRAD — —at a saving of $140.75 over the limited autographed Sun Dial Edition “T AM nota literary man,”Conrad once —mod- estly said. But what did the world think of him? It was shown strikingly, before he died, by the payment of over $110,000 for his original manuscripts, and by the outlay of over $129,000 for a few autographed editions of his com- plete works. Probably no such tribute was ever paid, in all his- tory, to an author while he was still alive. “T feel that Romance is dead now, not Conrad,’ an American woman in England wrote home to a friend. That was the feeling of unnumbered thousands when this great Master passed away. The Secret of Conrad What is the secret that lifted this former Polish cabin-boy to the foremost place in contemporary English literature? Perhaps most of all, it is the exciting narratives he told and the rare glamour of the life he wrote about—the life of outcasts, wanderers and adven- tures in the fathermost places of the earth. What an array of them there is: rough traders, thieves, murderers, adventurers—the riff-raff of the world thrown up in the mysterious East, and there battling out their destiny! And what women move through his stories: the bewitching plotter, Dona Rita; the mysteri- ous Flora de Barral; the brave little outcast, Lena; the elusive and pathetic Nina of Almayer, the unfathomable and seductive Ma- lay princess for whom Willems sold his soul—to mention but a few. “Here, surely, if ever, is genius!’’ Conrad had*met these men, he had known these rare, strange women he wrote about, and what tales he spins of them! Tales of the devoted love of men and women, in remote seclusion, far from civilization, possibly de- serted on some lonely isle, sur- rounded by chattering people of other races; tales of blood and adventure in the mysteriousChina Sea, where typhoons spring out of a cloudless sky; tales of breath- less romance covering the far- flung world—of friendships and conflicts of men and women caught in swirling eddies of life. “Such tales they are as men tell under the haunting stars, "—that, in one phrase, typifies them. No wonder Hugh Walpole burst out, after reading one of Conrad's books, “Here, surely, if ever, is genius!" An Exceptional Opportunity Gouverneur Morris once said of Conrad: “Those who have not read him are simply not well read.” If that was true before Conrad's death, how much truer it is to- day! You will never be satisfied with yourself until you own and have read all of Conrad's books. And instead of $175.75—the price of the Sun Dial Edition— the cost of the new Kent Edition, containing everything in the de Luxe set and two extra volumes in addition (Tales of Hearsay and Suspense), is only $35.00, and may be paid in convenient small amounts. This is a saving of $140.75 over the Sun Dial Edition. The publishers respectfully ad- vise prospective purchasers not to delay, as these sets at this ex- traordinary price are disappearing fast. Use the coupon below, or write a letter. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. Dept. C-351, Garden City, N. pe a eas Feet and ONLY BE STON sal" spect ocs oP HOS wl Address, wins References (or occupation) 8 bie $5.00 8 month re I 0, e rich \ leather binding and ct heck hers. if you want to tnspect the rich Mi leather binding and change PRESS OF WILLIAM GREEN, NEW YORK comicbooks.com suddenly a fresh salt wind the far-off pastures of the sea —this is the sensation when one comes upon a book by Joseph