... THE TRIALS OF AUTHORSHIP. The preface which Mr. Thomas Hardy contributes to the new volume in bis collected works—“ A Laodicean —gives an interesting glimpse into the trials of authorship. Readers are apt to conclude that man of supreme genius can turn ...

... biographer treats of Gordon as soldier and statesman, others having written on the religious note of his character. Mr. Thomas Hardy has just returned to Wessex from sojourn of some weeks on the Continent. He went abroad to strengthen his health, which ...

... Meredith, we imagine, is content with the Athenseum. Mr. Lang would probably not care to stray far from the Sarile. Mr. Thomas Hardy most likely knows almost little of the metropolis as Mr. R. D. Blackmore. Mr. Stevenson, having become Scjuth Sea Islander ...

... difficult to imegine two writers whose work was at once so like and unlike WS was that of R rolyerd Kipling and Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy bail made Wessex men and women live be ore them as they never did before. One of the first to start the net literary ...

... The C. F. Aked and Mr. Jonathan Hargrave (Liverpool), having spoken, Mr. Thomas Hardy (Stokeon-Treot) next rose, and was met with cries of Sit down and Vote, vote. Mr. Hardy (mounting • bench and gesticulating at the delegate.): I am not going In ...

... Agonistes,” first edition, fetched £lO 15a. Messrs. Mathews and Lane are hoping to have Mr. Lionel Jolmson’s work, “The Art of Thomas Hardy,” ready in few days. Messrs. Ward and Downey have the press a book on “Crimes and Crirainafs Australia,” with descriptions ...

... Michael Macdcnagfa, and Mr. Louis Garvin. The same number contains fine reproduction of M; ** Winifred Thomaon’s painting Mr. Thomas Hardy, end portraits of Sir George Otto Russian dramatist, “E. Nesbit,” Hr. B. B. Harriots Watson, and Hr. Prank Sullen. The ...

... Michael Macdi nagh, and Mr. Louis Garvin. The same number contains fine reproduction Miss Winifred Tliomaon’s peinting of Mr. Thomas Hardy, and portraits of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bert.. Dr. William Barry, author of “The Two Standards,” Mrs. Meyneli, Ostrovsky ...

... white. Uteiature the number is enriched by oootribntione from H. P. Herne, Bret Harts. John Oliver Hobbes, Harold Fredano, Thomas Hardy, Frank Harris, R. B. Cunninghams Graham, Max Beetbohm, Kipling, and John Davidson. LITERARY NOTES. Another attempt to ...

... large circulations. Mr. Gladstone was much disappointed at the comparatively small sale of his great edition of Butler. Mr. Thomas Hardy paying his usual early summer visit to London. He is said to have made considerable progress during the winter and spring ...

... to “Far from the Madding Crowd, which just appears in Messrs. Osgood and Mcllvaine’s six-shilling uniform edition, Mr. Thomas Hardy reminds his readers that it was this book lhat he “first ventured to adopt the word * Wessex from the pages of early English ...

... English don’t grudge It!—not dolllar It! Ah! if the aad doubtful if ever the cast of fruit world could only read it! Here is Thomas Hardy. j lo | and be minimised. According Yes; the world just would like to get hold of this. wMr Ce ...