Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...book is not a novel, but simply a story of the expedition. Between 1910 and the appearance of "Galleons Reach" Tomlinson wrote "Old Junk", "London River", "Waiting for Daylight", "Under the Red Ensign", and "Gifts of Fortune". Many of these were written Dicken's wise,--as sketches which Tomlinson prepared as a journalist for weekly publication. Such is the reputed origin of "Old Junk" and "Waiting for Daylight...
...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...
...GALLIONS REACH-H. M. Tomlinson-Harper ($2.50). After he killed a man on board a boat at "Gallions Reach," part of the grey, quiet Thames that breathes near the uproarious alleys of Limehouse, Colet was pursued by a ghost. Through shipwreck, riding the hot ocean in a tiny open boat, even in the green griddle of the jungle, there was always a hand upon his shoulder, a voice in his ear. Finally he obeyed the whispered command and sailed home, to "Gallions Reach." The lands and water over which Colet is driven by a sprinting remembrance are faintly reminiscent...
...small double house at 42 Holyoke street, and will be open daily from 8:30 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at night. The new building, recently purchased by the University, and completely renovated for the purpose, is situated just opposite the Freshman Gymnasium, within easy reach of each of the Freshman dormitories...