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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following review of the current issue of the Advocate was written for the Crimson by Conrad Aiken '11, former President of the Advocate, and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWER'S DISFAVOR SETTLES ON ADVOCATE | 11/29/1927 | See Source »

...Tomlinson has come to the United States chiefly through the efforts of his publishers, who have just put out his first novel. "Galleons Reach." This book has enjoyed considerable fame and has put Tomlinson in the opinion of many in the same position that Joseph Conrad held when his novel "Chance" was published after 20 years of writing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH CONRAD TALKS AT UNION THIS EVENING | 10/14/1927 | See Source »

...Tomlinson, whose recent novel "Galleons Reach" has placed him in much the same position of Conrad in 1915 when his "Chance" appeared, will speak at the Union on Friday evening, at 8 o'clock in the Living Room. Tomlinson is coming to the Union chiefly through the efforts of the Harvard English Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION TO HEAR SPEAKER KNOWN AS ENGLISH CONRAD | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

Tomlinson's name is little known except to those in that group who follow literature closely; yet it is almost the unanimous opinion of that group that Tomlinson is entering a fame closely analagous to that of Joseph Conrad. Conrad had been writing for twenty years before "Chance" aroused the applause of the public. A perusal of all previous Conrad books followed and books long on the market were hailed as great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION TO HEAR SPEAKER KNOWN AS ENGLISH CONRAD | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...Galleons Reach" is Tomlinson's first attempt at a novel. Published in England by William Heineman and in the United States by Harpers, it brought him immediate fame. He has been termed the English Conrad, but the metaphore refers more to the nature of the coming of his fame and his subject matter than to any imitative likeness of Conrad's style or method of treatment. The subject matter of the two men is the same, but the two styles of writing are essentally different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION TO HEAR SPEAKER KNOWN AS ENGLISH CONRAD | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

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