... present month.fa Mr Thomas Hardy and the lion. Mrs Hen- niker, Lord Houghton's sister, are to collaborate, on a novel. Mrs Henniker dedicates the volume ai of Outlines, which Messrs Hutchinson are about to publish, to my friend Thomas Hardy. Outlines ...

... on Saturday, in adds- tion to one each evening during' thE week.' THE CLOCK WAnWiokeo.-Ab. Bishop Alkl ; land on Monday, Thomas Hardy,. Helmin- row, inakeepep, wis charged with keeping opez at 10.15 p.m. on the 6th ?? Hary said nQ5, as she told P.O. Campbell ...

... of acromphshing his purpose when two men, who were sinlkug a well a quarter of a mile off, named nhilip) elareheugh and Thomas Hardy, who had heard her screams, arrived. Clareheugh, a power- f-.l man, seized the scoundrel and dragged him away to Chilton ...

... obtained a good success in Hamburg. M. Charles Lecocq has scored another success with his new opera, La Jolie Persane. Mr Thomas Hardy is writing a new serial story, The Trumpet-Major, for Good Words. Professor W. Robertson Smith, of Aberdeen, has left ...

... complete sturies. Max Vi ';Pemberton contributes the first instalment of 5' Some Jewel Mysteries I Have 'Known. ht :Thomas 'Hardy writes on ' Ancient Earthworks iti 'at Casterbridge, anld Mrs Stannard contributes 'if 'ashort story, entitled Margot ...

... Francais. Besides a conpla of chapters from Janies Payn's charming novel, the author of Far from the Maddink crowd (Thomas Hardy) supplies an interesting little novelette. The verse ic contributed by dmund Gosse and Jean Ingelow. Dr. B. W. Richardeon ...

... sharpened the weapons of conflict, but it has ias yet put only a very thin veneer over the fsavage. s, A PRn or BLUE ErYs, by Thomas Hardy; andl rTHE ISE W Woaiar orF IxvsFaN-ss, by Wililiam rBlackh(Samnson, Low. Ma£nrston, & Co., London) have just been added ...

... )Belgraeia for January, 1878, will contain the irst chapters of a new novel, entitled The Re- turn of the Native, by Thomas Hardy; and a complete story by Wilkie Collins, entitled T The Duel in Berne Wood. We regret to hear that the Bulgarian, Matthew- ...

... celebrities have reference, amongst others, to Alma Tadema, Sims Reeves, Grover Cleveland, the Conntess of Aberdeen, Bjirnson. Thomas Hardy, the King of Dahomey, and the Khan of Rhiva. The Jour- nalists of To-Day series include Mr R. E. Leader, of the Sheve~d ...

... amnong the issues is SCarny.a, with a charniing-colonred froutispice, and coumnlote stories from the pamns of Bret Harte. Thomas Hardy, ant lA alter Besant. R. L. Stephenson contributes apret'y littlf porem called - Early in Spring. The general feature ...

... promises well for next year.' The auchief at racticin will be Mr Froude's 1Remi- B ng- nisisences of men I have known. Thomas Hardy 'T to will writs one serial, 1The Trumpet Major, and Id~ tar Miss Jean In.gelow, the other, 1Sarah de Man Berenger. ...

... poem The Legend of the Island T] of Higg. L CRAD~ocsc NowELT,, by R. D. Blackmore; Tiow R I{AND or. ETHELBEllrA, by Thomas Hardy;- and tb IZAUsssA ZEasnRA, by William Blace, are the three J. recent additions to the half-crown edition of these D authors ...