... he -wise woman is believed to exist by virtue ot he ignorance of the people, and according to si aie opultr novelists— Thomas Hardy for one, we are ,r>t sure that we cannot say Rudyard Kipling f or ull . .ther— it is not so certain th.it these wise ...

... paper, and entitled With the Best Intentions. The summer number of the Graphic will consist of a complete story by Mr. Thomas Hardy, entitled The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. A new journal is to appear this month, entitled Tne Present Day, and ...

... .MfayaZinc for the coming year include a series of papers on the pcasantry of various parts of the United Kiogdom. Mr. Thomas Hardy is to do the Dosrsstahirc Labourer, Mrs. Oliphant the Skye Crofter, and Mr. Justin McCarthy the Irish Cottier, A new i ...

... Reviewn opens with a poem by Mr. Swin- u- burns, The Swimmer's Dream. Mr. Walter Besant, ed Mrs. Lynn Linton, and Mr. Thomas Hardy discuss candour in fiction, and Viscount Wolmer explains how d, to get the Tithes Bill through the House of Commons, 're ...

... season. It Mrs. J. H. Riddell contributes a story to the new num- It ber of the New 3'ork- hndependent, and a poem by Mr. Thomas Hardy is promised shortly. It is said that Mr. Julian Hawthorne has begun a new novel which will first * apfear in serial form ...

... a Boston periodical called the Youth's Compranion, which is also going to print poems by Lord Lytton, and tales by Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. W. Black, M. Daudet, Mrs. Oliphant. and other writers of note. Commetiting in the fact that Mr. George Godwin is to ...

... by Colonel W. F. Butler, C.., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; The Dress of Merry England, by Mrs. Haweis; The Rustic of Thomas Hardy- and George Eliot, by C. Kegan Paul; The Bogies of Provincial Life-Inelegance, Tattle, and Respectability ; A ...

... with much unobtrusive power. b The authoress evinces a capacity of drawing rural life d and people whieh reminds one of Thomas Hardy and , his Weeoex folk. Her characters are depicted with a n quiet forcefulness which is very pleasing, ard het la stories ...

... started by Messrs. Macmillan will be edited to by Mr. Comyns Carr, who is at present editing Art :.said Letters in Mr. Thomas Hardy, it is said, has been engaged in It writing a short story, which is to appear in Longniau`s a q:1ff7qin1' for March. In ...

... amonrat the front-rank writers of the present da'y are the W. D. Ilowells, R. L. Stevenson, Brat lHarte, Walter silk Beaant, Thomas Hardy, Frances Hodgeon Burnett, Henry James, &o. A together tbhe contribetors )nc number nearly thirty. The frontespiece, is ...

... poem; Sir Samuel Baker, he who writesof tiger hunting ; W. Clark Russell, Grant [ ve Allen, George Augustus Saila, and Thomas Hardy. he Harper's AJ'agarine reproduces Rosetti's a Ecce ne D'Ancilln Domini, and has a great variety of contents, th Andrew ...

... Burroughs, Mr. R. L. Stevenson, A..ll.B., Mr. Grant Allen, Mr. Dutton Cook, Mr. J. A. Farrer, Dr. E. A. Freeman, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Rev. H. R. Haweis, Mr. R. Jefferies, Mr. A. Lang, Mr. R. A. Proctor, Dr. B. W. Richardson, Mr. R. 11 Horne, Miss ?? Edwards ...