“For ‘The mirror of the sea’ we would make bold to predict a very long life. We seem to see it being discovered and re-discovered as the years roll on.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1390w. + Nation. 83: 374. N. 1, ’06. 670w.
“He knows the souls of the sea and of ships, as he knows the souls of men, but that would be worth but little to us, did he not possess a still more wonderful faculty of interpretation and expression—a faculty that was never better shown than in these sketches.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 820w.
“To a practical knowledge of seamanship, of lading cargoes, ruling crews, managing and navigating vessels, Joseph Conrad adds the vision of a poet and exercises the witchcraft of a master of style.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
“To those who belong to the totem of its writer it will be always a kind of gospel. It contains the whole soul of a man who has known the deeps of sea mysteries, who has sought them as a lover, with joy, and reverence, and fear.”
+ + Spec. 97: 888. D. 1, ’06. 850w.
Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski). [Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard.] $1.50. Harper.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.