... faithfully, MICHAEL PESIDTH. Hit.—l read your criticism Thomas Hardy with unbounded surprise. To moat literary woman his j. sin.ply marvr-llou*. You weM condemn Shakespeare far his cuaraearss Hardy. His pictures of the pmssnHi, who with ail their faults ...

... severe than is generally supposed. Several Europeans have been attacked by the plague at Bombay, and two died yesterday. Mr. Thomas Hardy has almost finished the revision his novel, The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved. Judge PiEMY once boasted that himself had ...

... Weekly post weeks, commencing on SATURDAY, AUGUST 29TH. To lie followed Short Stories WILKIE COLLINS, I'.KOUGHTON, and THOMAS HARDY. RAN D R EST A U R A T, BOAII LANE. IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIG RASEMI.VT—GriII Room, Public Wine Cellars. GROUND FLOOR—La-lies' ...

... used in constructing a piano, from no fewer than 16 different countries. Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, is descended from the Hardy to whom the dying Nelson said, Kiss me, Hardy. A marble bust of the late Duke of Devonshire is to be placed in the new Pump ...

... Mitchell's challenge. will box Mitchell in America January. The Lennox Athletic Club has offered a imrse of £2,000. Mr. Thomas Hardy has a volume of poems on the way. The terrors of dynamite have lately taken hold Antwerp. Scarborough proposes to establish ...

... between Keen and Cooper was won by Keen by 50 yards. BOAT RACE AT BARROW.—On Saturday, on Walney Channel, Barrow-in-Furness, Thomas Hardy and James Drummond, both of Barrow, met to scnll mile over the champion course, skiffs. Much interest was taken in the ...

... A CHRISTMAS STORY, > . 13~~ENITI;ED - , BENIGHTED TRAVELLERS, r f BY . - THOMAS HARDY, L Author of ,A Laddicean, Far from the . - . ~Madding Crowd, &c., Will appear in the WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT to the LEEDS MEROURY, on SATUJRDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 17. . 3itts ...

... Emma, youngest daughter of M(- James Cox, Moorside, Holbeck. DEATHS. BrL—June 10th, at 3, Oxford Row, aged 61, Thomas, son of the late Thomas Bill, of Boar Lane, Leeds. Bisnor—June 11th, zed 32, Mr George Bishop, of Birmingham, late of Leeds. Boocock—June ...

... the weak point* of the book, yet with every allowance for them all it extremely clever story. Those who have followed Mr. Thomas Hardy in his history The Woodlanders (S Tela, Macmillan) it appeared month month may I justifiably renewed pleasure in looking ...

... AHm Vialet Hunt CO«n 1*1; .. 1 Henry James hard I'rj r KlbUn* W. Clark nmwll r? Lynn Lyntun I .->teele H«Mf*Gl*lnf fan Thomas Hardy hrantlort Moors Lewi rice Harraden Crsvjc Moore Stanley Wry man WK *~ ( CHAPMAN'S MAGAZINE. The tint numb«r will ..Le ...

... r*,, . iS - Samuel only -on of-Saturn I Jackson. tuirdrt,,?:K. Hous ' • Dunscar. to Martha Gertrude Tbe i ht r tb ' 4ta Thomas Hardy .Jackson. Esc. tou. No*eu , t^'~ At bo 1 Shorefitld. Duoscar, near Bolshy p'^.^l >t *™ l> ''« > 30. at St Augustine's ...

... Milford band, leader Mr. R. Gibson; Brotherton Foresters from the Ship Inn, with the Brotherton braes band, leader Mr. Thomas Hardy. Divine service was held in the morning for the club.men, and the vicar gave a very excellent sermon from the text Bear ...