... THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by Thomas Hardy (3 vols.: Smith and Elder).-- In this fine work-- perhaps the most artisti cally perfect that we have yet had from him-- Mr. Hardy more than retrieves the ground he lost in its immediate predecessor, The Hand ...

... MR. COMYNS CARR'S dramatised version of Far From the Madding Crowd was produced with the authority of the author, Mr. Thomas Hardy, at the PRINCE OF WALES'S Theatre, Liverpool, on Monday evening. The new piece, which is described as a pastoral drama ...

... of Messrs. Thomas Hardy and Comyns Carr's play, Far from the Madding Crowd, was due to the recent controversy as to its common origin with The Squire. On the one side it had been asserted that Mr. Pinero's play, whilst owing much to Mr. Hardy's novel, was ...

... over-study and affectation in the language, as though the author were consciously imitating either Mr. Blackmore or Mr. Thomas Hardy, of both of whom we are continually being reminded. But the book as a whole will certainly, to say the least of it, not ...

... the limits of her quiet power, and does not forget that her first duty is to interest, not herself, but her readers. Mr. Thomas Hardy has called his Two on a Tower (3 vols. Sampson Low and Co.) a Romance. Without that explanation, we were half inclined ...

... original novels of the author, nears the end. The interest is maintained with unfailing skill. The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, continues to surprise and enchain by its sheer freshness, albeit it possesses marry another excellence as a story. Then ...

... said, to possess an intimate knowledge and comprehension of the Wessex rustic nature, equalling or even rivalling that of Thomas Hardy, the first pioneer in these regions, where, far from the madding crowd, odd, primitive types of character still maintain ...

... would probably have succeeded where Mr. Hardy has failed. So wrote our superfine contemporary The Speaker in criticising with just severity the inappropriate and unpoetical address written by Mr. Thomas Hardy for Miss Ada Relian's delivery at a recent ...

... the benefit of Mrs. Jeune's Holiday Fund at the Lyceum, on Wednesday, was an occasional poetical address, written by Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, and delivered by Miss Ada Rehan. ...

... has yet an instinct for characterisation, a feeling for the minutiae of life and for the simplicity of peoples which Mr. Thomas Hardy alone shares with him in our day. He is the apostle of Tregarrick, as the other is the clnei priest ot (Jasterbndge. He ...

... MR. THOMAS HARDY'S 'NEW VOLUME The most delightful quality of this book is the impersonality of the narration. The impersonal is not common in English fiction, which is apt to be overcharged with the individuality of our national genius, or what the foreign ...

... Mw- tt'rf-* 0J>' W M THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA, A COMEDY IN CHAPTERS, by Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Madding Crowd, &c. (2 vols.: Smith and Elder).-- This book is unquestionably the work of a true artist and humourist, and yet both the art and ...