... opinion. I think Thomas Hardy is the greatest novelist, by all odds, living to-day in England, and next to him, or with him, I should put George Moore. I found 'Esther Waters' one of the truest novels I 'had read. I like Tlhomas Hardy's 'Jude.' It deals ...

... is in the printer's bands. sad Mr Thomas Hardy, who made a hit by his last novel, an- Far from the Madding Crowd, is to begin a new work the in the Cornltil for July, entitled The Hand of Ethel- and berta. Mr Hardy is yet a very young man, and his ...

... of the Rcee. By Thomas Hardy and Florence I Henucnuer-Day-Books. By Mabel E. Votton. (LondoR: John Lane.) ] Life's Little Ironies. A set of tales, with - some Colloquial Sketches, entitled A Fese 3 Creste Chraracters. By Thomas Hardy. i I(London: Osgood ...

... this remarkable work to their beautiful little Pocket Library. '-Wessex Tales-Strange, Lively, and Corn- monplace. By Thomas Hardy, author of The Woodlanders, &.c 2 vols. (Leaden: Macmillanl & Co.r)-Mso, if not the whole, of these five stories have ...

... Henniter is about to publish a collection of short stories, which, both in the opinion of her brother (Lord Houghton) and Mfr Thomas Hardy, who have read them, are among. the best things she has done. IT is announced from Berlin that Prince Bismarck's Memoirs ...

... heroine a member of the frail sex, who L is sinned against as well as sinning. -.The quintuple bill provided by Messrs Thomas Hardy, and Conan Doyle, Ladv Colin FCampbell, Mrs Clifford, aind Mr J. M. Barrie, caine to a somewhat sudden end at Terrv's Theatre ...

... pushd very hard by Mr Thomas Hardy, if his Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which the bulk of his critics declare to le the best of his novels, is to be takeis as evidence that he hab fiually joined the ranks of the Eccentri- cians. Mr Hardy has always hzd a ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...