... fantastic dry point etching, Adoration of the Shepherds. Mr. Strang's skill in portraiture is seen in half-lengths ot Thomas Hardy, Esq., Cosmo Monkhouse, Esq., and ' Robert Louis Stevenson, all distinctly characterised and executed, with little ...

... would read The Monks of Thelema, byi Mr. Walter Besant, and, having done that, would peruse certain writings of Mr. Thomas Hardy, he would not only improve his temper, but see that the difficulties of the village lie not with the coercion of the ...

... D. Blackmore contributes an interesting poem, Buscombe ; or, a Michaelmas Goose, illustrated by C. S. Reinhart; Mr. Thomas Hardy a thoroughly characteristic story, The First Countess of Wessex and Mr. Theodore Child finds a sympathetic subject in ...

... seriously informed that a single bean might turn the balance one way or the other. JAMES GREENWOOD A Pair of Blue Eyes ( Vsol): Thomas Hardy. It. S. King and Co. The Death of Saul. 1. C. tlannin:g. The Russo-Turkish War: Author ?? Comin.s Salute.' Nimmo. Advantages ...

... last picture painted by the late Lord Leighton. The Christmas number of the I/lush-a/ed London Nlews contains stories by Thomas Hardy, Grant Allen, and F. Marion Crawford. That by the first-named, ' A Committeeman of ' The Terror,' is a quaintly conceived ...

... By LADY VIOLET GREVILLE OSCAR WI'LDE'S IOKEA MALE authors, with few exceptions, such as Balzac, Shakespeare, Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and Alexandre Dumas have never understood women's characters. The truth is that women are inconsequent by nature, and ...

... arrangements will obviate this difficulty by covering the right of serial publication both in England and America. Thus Mr. Thomas Hardy is engaged upon a ncew novel, to be illustrated by Mr. Du Maurier, of Punc/h, which will appear exclusively in Haper's ...

... R, DMWS ilt vairs OF late the public has had no cause to complain of neglect from its favourites. Thomas Hardy, George Mer edith, Rider Haggard, and J. M. Barrie, within the past few months have in turn captured the reading ,Aoild; and now, while the ...

... doubtful and diffident, they await a summons from above or below. Here for instance is a mag- nificent edition of the work of Thomas Hardy (Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.). Very plain is it. but very handsome; indeed, it is seldom that . contemporary writer is so ...

... Foster; The Wedding Ring. Jas. Nisbet and Co. For Percival (3 vols.): Margaret Veley; The Return of the Native (3 vols.): Thomas Hardy. Smith, Elder. and Co. On the Treatment of Some of the Most Important Affections of the Nervous System: Dr. Henry Belcher ...

... remark- able rccovery of interest, there being 80 entries against 47 last year. The features in which the county of Mr. Thomas Hardy has the advantage are sheep and pigs. As compared with last year's show in Dorsetshire, the display at the Monmouthshire ...

... degree of Oxford at the Commemoration, when the Marquis of Salisbury assumed the Chancellorship of that University. SIR THOMAS DurFus HARDY, Knight, was born at Port Royal, Janaica, in I804. In i8i9 he was appointed to a junior clerkship in the Record Office ...