... THOMAS HARDY, Mr Hardy is an unequal writer. He has his great moments, but is often dull and artificial. Although dealing so largely with peasant types and rustic situations, there is seldom anything idyllic in his treatment of them. It is in the tragic ...

... the peasant and middle-class life of the English Midlands of half a century ago. Of living novelists George Meredith and Thomas Hardy get precedence. GEORGE MEREDITH. The distinction of originality of style and method is undoubtedly his. But this very ...

... novel by Thomas Hardy. The April issue is without a hut “A Legend of Another World —original i:i conception, and beautifully uorkedont, will read with intense interest and pleasure. ( ...

... over the matter and hear a deputation from the Scottish Permissive Bill Association. The deputation consisted of Messrs Thomas Hardy, Manchester, Robert Mackay and Robt. Stevenston, Glasgow. The confe rence was h e ld i n the Good Templar's Hall, and was ...

... has beew privately informed )•> Mr that the delay in puhliahiug the index Kymer F*.-.K Huh he« the illness and of Sir Thomas Hardy. is new in active pit* pamtivn, however, and the complete volume %-xpvt» d to for isnuc the public at the ...

... with which our readers are already familiar. Illustrations—Portrait of Professor Minto, and siews of the residences of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Rudyard Kipling. RECEIVED from the Drummond Depot, Stirling, a new packet— Chepstow Chips, or O'er True Tales. ...

... both publications begin new tale*. Good Word* begin two tales by authors of acknowledged merit—“ The Trumpet Major,by Thomas Hardy, and “Sarah de Berenger, by Jean Ingelow, better known as poet than tale-writer. Sunday Xaffazms also begins two tales ...

... briefer forms. The writers include such well-known names as W. I) Howells, P,obert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Bret Harte, Walter Besant, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George W. Cable, etc., etc. The pictorial side of the number ...

... General Readers, by one of them,' is excellent, but a large proportion of the number is of much less interest. A new novel by Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Madding Crowd, will begin in the May number, and with the new volume we hope to see Moe/nil/on ...

... the best tale writers of the day. Last week's issue was bright with pictures, and eminently readable. We notice that Mr Thomas Hardy is to contribute a serial, the first since his great work, Tess of the D' Urber vines. MY ACADIAN FRIEND. ( An, American ...

... regarding church members. The Rev. Hugh Ross, Kilmarnock, acting as moderator of Fullarton Free Church, Irvine, reported Mr Thomas Hardy withdrawing his candidature. In consequence of some of the questions in the schedule not having been filled up, a committee ...

... sensational kind predominates. An Impression of Venice, by H. W. Massingham ; Ancient Earthworks at Dorchester, by Thomas Hardy ; and The Zoo Revisited, by Phil. Robinson, are the only papers which may be classed as magazine articles. The English ...