EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.
Tan ART OF JOSEPH CONRAD.—Mr. F. Sidney Webber writes .—Your very meagre notice in last week's Spectator on the passing of Joseph Conrad will have both surprised and disappointed many of your readers. Has it been over- looked that it was probably largely owing to one of the Spectator essayists writing under the above title nearly a quarter of a century ago that the tremendous and far- reaching force engendered by Conrad in English and American literature received its greatest impulse, and brought to the notice of thousands this hitherto little known writer ? If I remember aright, it was just about the time that the second edition of Youth was beginning to make a stir— which book gave rise to that entirely erroneous expression that the author was only "a novelist's novelist." The delightful article in question first drew my attention to Conrad.
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