... Mr Thomas Hardy, common consent has displayed commanding ability in his descriptions our English country folk, but the appended extract relating to the courtship Kirsty Pringle by her rustic wooer will in no way suffer by comparison with Mr Hardy, even ...

... for February. Belgravia for Jauuary contains the first chapter of a new novel, entitled The Return of the Nat've, by Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Madding Crowd, illustrated by Arthur Hopkins. The number also contains a complete story by Wilkie ...

... the Gth inat, aged sixteen, Mary Forbes, eldest daughter the Rev. Thomas Hardy. At Newborn Manse, Fife, the 10th inat., ilia, wife of the Rev. Alex. D.D. Rev. Thomas Mt;*!*.— The Rev. Thomas M'l ’rie, D.D., LL-D., die ...

... is true, but not trite, though on an old theme. There are few really high-class artists that are more aggravating than Thomas Hardy. His workmanship in some departments is nearly perfect, while in other departments it is almost slovenly. Lady Penelope ...

... advocate ; Harvey, rector of Edinburgh Academy; the Kov. William Ogilvie, rector of Morrison’s Academy, Crieff; and the Iv v. Thomas Hardy, minister of Fowlis Wester. The prizes offered Lord Gleualmoud were each or the value of £5 (or in the option of the successful ...

... Tullibody, to be minister of Ibeehurch and parish of Motuie. In the absence of Rev. Andrew Campbell, Crieff, Moderator, Kev. Thomas Hardy, Fowlis-Wester, as senior minister present, presided. The proceedings very format, and there were no objections to Mr Murray's ...

... ety 'Religio 3ledics I net or saw nor i. it in 4.:0:- land to be bad. There is the first instalment 4 a new story by Mr Thomas Hardy, entitled The Woodlanders. The scene iv laid in Somerset and Pet on. the tract of country running almost a meridional ...

... Page Roberts. The same firm promise the following novels : For Percival, by Margaret Veley ; The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy; and The World She Awoke In: a Narrative, by Lizzie Alldridge. Messrs Macmillan & Co. wiil shortly publish a volume on ...

... 1798-1831, we find a whole host of distinguished names:—Sir Ralph Abercromb} , Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwoodj Captain Sir Thomas Hardy, the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Hill, Henry Brougham, M.P., and the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, to pick out the most ...

... NOTES. XJJ.iJJi» - l Mr. Thomas Hardy has hie new work. the form, says, it has, d 0 been abridged and modibed i» This is, cf course, a matter oi jU ledge, but now wo are to obscure, it was written. Jude tue» w 1 jt Hardy tells us, resembles un derl»% ...

... by means conspicuous for the cheapness for which their books are obtainable Swinburne and Tennyson, George Meredith and Thomas Hardy, only to mention the names quoted by your correspondent, are certainly not examples of particular cheapness, yet each commands ...

... Consedßsieoers was on Monday evening last. Present —Provost Dawsou r • Bailies Cuddie and Learmonth; Commisoioners Johm Hardy, Thomas Morton, James Archibald \ Henderson, James Law, James Maddan, stad William Hutton. The statutory account of all the monies ...