... NEW VOLVME OF 2S SERIES. 7 lB. By GEORGE DOUGLAS. TL Jnst such;a book as Mr Thomas Hardy would write if he were to deal with such a subject. The writer has caught Mr Hardy's mcaner in the picturesgtoe descriptio' of details, while be has a thororlh ...

... minister of the church and norish of Moosie. In the absence of the Rev. CAndrew. Camnpbel~l, Crieff, moderator, the Rev. Thomas Hardy, Fowlis Wester, presided. The proeedings were very formal. and as there were no objections to thae appointmenl; the Presbytery ...

... literary rather than in thiatrical work. The e best of the series was a one-act piece entitled The Wayfarers, by Mr Thomas Hardy, author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. The Y piece is understood to be based upon one of Mr I Rdy's Wessex stories, and ...

... sudden bursting into literary fame of Mr Duu lanurier, is more remarkable than the dead-set which has been made against Mr Thomas Hardy for the character and presumed moral tendencies of his last story, Jude the Obscure. Even where the work or its author ...

... land-. What Scott and Stevenson have done for many parts of Scotland, and what George Eliot has done for Warwickshire, and Thomas Hardy for Devonshire, Mrs Ward is doing 'for the lovely valley of the Kent. Anyone travel. ling by the West Coast route to the ...

... operas of Millocher, Genee, Strauss, and others. The Grand Ducal orchestra of forty players will accompany the troupe. Mr Thomas Hardy has, it seems, again taken up the idea of dramatising Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but he will probably be associ- ated ...

... speare and .Eschylus. So, too, even in our own dav, when Mr Meredith publishes a book like The Amazing Marriage, or 'Mr Thomas Hardy defies the lightnings of propriety, if not of deceucy, with Jude the Obscure, the critics really set themnselves to study ...

... ar inspiring moral foret-such a. force as Carlyle was to Dickens-that ?? made the suprenre British novelist of our day, Thomas Hardy himself. bow the lknee to Ophelia. At one time Mr Hariy had and worshipped Faith. There is no better passage even. irn ...

... public appreciate, the writing of i 'Miss Marie Corelli and Ur Hall Caine very-a much more than they do Ate writing of Mrj Thomas Hardy and Mr George Meredith. That -may be a clear proof of their want of taste in literatures for not even the warmest admirer ...

... the Painter-Etcher. A Practical Treatise. ?? Hugh Paton. (London: Raithby, Law- erence & Co.) . The Tmrumpet-Major. By Thomas Hardy. q The Wessex Novels. Vol. IX. (London: I Osgood, M'Ilvaine & Co.) I Born to be a Sailor; or, A House on the Roll- s log ...

... & or ltert, who thinks that the state of justice P as administered in the Republic is deplorable. & I A short story by Thomas Hardy affords a pleas- Z ing relief to the general solidity of the number. C i The historical noval in Muerray's' Magazince is ...

... popular of purely English v novelists? The most commanding and ag- gressive personality among them at the present time is Mr Thomas Hardy, and yet the best of his characters, especially of his ?? characters, are sO intensely local pro- ducts that it is almost ...