OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 9

OBITUARY

JOSEPH HOCKING

LONDON, March 4. . Joseph Hocking, the novelist, is dead.

• Joseph Hocking, who was a prolific writer of novels, was educated to be a surveyor. In 1884 he entered the Ministry, and later, after travelling extensively in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Greece, he took up writing. His publications included: — "Jabez Easterbrook," 1891; "Zillah," 1892; "Story of Andrew Fairfax," 1893; "Ishmael Pengelly," 1894; "The Monk of Mar Saba," 1894; "All Men are .Liars, a Study of Pessimism and Cynicism," 11895; "Fields of Fair Ren6wn, a Romance of Literary Life," 1896; "The Birthright, a Romance of Cornwall," 1897; "And Shall Trelawney Die?" 1897; "Mistress Nancy Molesworth," 1898; "The Scarlet Woman," 1899; "The Purple Robe," 1900; "The Madness of David Baring," 1900; "Lest We Forget," "O'er Moor and Fen," 1910; "Greater Love," "A Flame . of Fire," 1903; "Follow the Gleam," 1903; "Esau," 1904; "Roger Trewinion," 1905;. "The Woman of Babylon," "The Man Who Rose Again," 1906; "A Strong Man's Vow," "The Trampled Cross," 1907; "The Soul of Dominic Wildthorne," 1908; "The Sword of the Lord," 1909; "The Jesuit," 1911; "God and Mammon," 1912; "Spirit of. the West," 1913; "All for a Scrap of Paper," 1914; "The Day of Judgment," 1915; "The Path of Glory," "Tommy and the Maid of Athens," 1917; "The Pomp of Yesterday," "Price of a Throne," 1918; "In the Sweat of thy Brow," 1920; "Prodigal Daughters." 1922; "Prodigal Parents," 1923; "What Shall it Profit a Man?" 1924; "Rosemary Carew," 1925; "Tenant of Cromlech Cottage," 1926; "Felicity Treverbyn," 1927; "Nancy TrevanionV Legacy," 1928; "The Eternal Challenge," 1929; "Out of the Depths," ,1930; "The God Who Answers by Fire," 1930; "The Man Who was Sure," 1931;. "Caleb's Conquest," "The Eternal Choice,". 1932; "The Man Who

Found Out," 1933,