... haZ coat, it is said, over £10,000. Mr J. Ashby Sterry has written a novel under the title of ' A Tale of the Thames. Mr Thomas Hardy has theughts of extend. ing hisstory, ThePursuit of the Well-Beloved, into a full-blown novel. This story was written ...

... palmistry. Among the bands dealt with are those of Mr Glad- stone, Lord Wolselsy, Sir Frederick Leighton, Sir Sir Evelyn Wood, Thomas Hardy, and John Oliver Hobbes. Messrs William Hodge & Co., Glasgow, have in the press, and will shortly publish, a volume of ...

... features of the Christmas number of the Illustrated Londoae News will be a story of the French Revolu-; tioc, by Afr Thomas. Hardy, entitled A Comri mittee Man of 'The Terror,' and a ghost story by Mr F. Marion Crawford. Mr Louis Becke will shortly ...

... Mehalis, Dora Ru~sell, Joseph Hatton, Adeline Sargeant. Jessie fFothergill, Hall Caine, W. E. Norris, G. A. Henty, i. Thomas Hardy, and the author 'of Molly Bawn. It e will be observed that four out of the ten are women. Mr Ruskin has given his consent ...

... sister of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which is to be published under the title of Outlines, and dedicated to Mr Thomas Hardy, who, it is under- stood, has expressed a favourable opinion upon the work. Dr Smiles is making considerable progress with ...

... 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 ...

... Siddons, t and Signor Salvini contributes the fourth in- 8 stalment of his very interesting Leaves of a Autobiography. Thomas Hardy has for a f, good many years held a tolerably wide 1 reputation as an English novelist, and 'I his most recent book Tess ...

... Impressions of Anglo-Indian Life d will have special value. The complete I stories are numerous and good. The serial by Thomas Hardy, Heart's Insurgent is T finished, It has been of the erotic tommy- rotic order-a modern form of novel that is most ...

... of Andrew LWng The short tales in this number are of unusual oxcellence, amongst the number being one Con- 'tributed by Thomas Hardy, and entitlhed The First Countess ofWessex.' Amnong- 1,o poetical pieces is oe by li. D.- Blaokn' re, entitled Bu cn4b ...

... note-book and elaborated, perhaps months afterwards. Amongst other novelists sketched in these in. teresting papers are Thomas Hardy, Walter lLesant, James Payn, Rider Haggard, 11. L, Stevenson, George Macdonald, and f George Meredith. Speaking of the ...

... Emerson, Carlyle, Robert Brown- ing, George Eliot, George 'MacDonald, the Scottish school of fiction, Mrs Humphre~r Ward, Thomas Hardy, and' George Meredith. Carlyle and George Eliot have already been dealt with by M3r R. H. Hutton, but in Dr Wilson's treatment ...