... as £5,000 a year fsom her theatre, the Britannia, Hoxton. Mr. W. L. Courtney has been selected to write the monograph on Thomas Hardy for tho English Writers of To-Day series. Attention is drawn to the state of the roadway in Vicar Lane,.Leeds, from the ...

... stories, and recent novelists. Grey eyes are understood to denote poetical talent, and are evidence a romantic disposition. Thomas Hardy, may remembered, showed a preference for blue eyes to the extent of calling one his books A Pair of Blue Eyes. Yet it ...

... es, ia lying dangerously ill 'Bearwood, Wokingham.' - In library copy one of Mr. Hardy's novels was found written, in a lady's handwriting, Oh, how I hate Thomas Hardy! Velvet blouses, either finely crinkled ribbed, worn with serge, cloth, or coarse ...

... public all times. The linen manufactured yearly this country could be wrapped round the earth seven times. , As a boy, Mr. Thomas Hardy was privileged to speak to a man who once applied for a hangmansnip. The Canadian Parliament has not passed the Catholic ...

... of One of Our Conquerors. He declares it to be one of the two best novels ot the year—which shows that even human. Mr. Thomas Hardy gets modified praise ; Mr. Stevenson disappointing since he went the South beas. It has been a year young reputations; ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... dealing with complex subjects will ever be a drug in the market, when handled by capable writers. There is always room for Thomas Hardy, with his fine sensitiveness to the comedy and tragedy of rural life. There is always room for George Meredith and his ...

... suggests that they are alone to blame for the divorce literature from the stage, but there are other points of view. Mr. Thomas Hardy, forinstance, says that on the stage the presentation of human passions is subordinated to the present ation of mountains ...

... o'clock express on July 2. The London School Board contemplates making some provision for epileptic children. Mrs. Thomas Hardy is Mr. Hardy's amanuensis, and helps him very largely in his work. Lord Rosebery has recommended Missßetham Edwards for a Civil ...

... State, by Lord Selborne, Professor Max Muller, Professor Tyndall, Mr. Hardy, ‘mui- Mr. Lecky, and vcther well-known writers; also mescences of John Morley, and an arti on Thomas Hardy by Proies-ur Minto. Some famihar reco!lections of Dickens are to be contri- ...