... THOMAS HARDY, Mr Hardy is an unequal writer. He has his great moments, but is often dull and artificial. Although dealing so largely with peasant types and rustic situations, there is seldom anything idyllic in his treatment of them. It is in the tragic ...

... by W. E. Norris. COLONZL Came, by Mrs .61pbant. QOUN G..rarrre, by R. E. FrandUos. Iwo ON • 'I OWL, • to.. 111•0011 by Thomas Hardy, TOBWOoDa • by Evely n Everette Oman. WaTilta, • Dowel t.y Sr. B. Francliloa. An Insocurr insezz, by Mabel Collins. STAININ ...

... the peasant and middle-class life of the English Midlands of half a century ago. Of living novelists George Meredith and Thomas Hardy get precedence. GEORGE MEREDITH. The distinction of originality of style and method is undoubtedly his. But this very ...

... following interesting facts: In regard to the choice of places for writing: Farjeon wrote At th , Sign of the Silver Fiegon; Thomas Hardy, Un.ter the Greenwood Tree; and Ouida, Two Flags, (which probably formed the canopy of a ten:). One author, whose name ...

... over the matter and hear a deputation from the Scottish Permissive Bill Association. The deputation consisted of Messrs Thomas Hardy. Manchester, Robert Mackay and Robt. Stevenston, Glasgow. The conference was held in the Good Templar's Hall, and was presided ...

... THE ACAZIAN. A volame of Macmillan M time begins in May, and with it the first nt of a novel by Thomas Hardy. The April issue is without a tale; but ‘‘A Legend of Another World in conception, and beautafully worked out, will be read with intense imterest ...

... novel by Thomas Hardy. The April issue it without a tale; but A Legend of Another World —original in conception, and beautifully worked out, will be read with intense interest and pleasure. George Saintsbury contributes en excellent study of Thomas Love ...

... over the matter and hear a deputation from the Scottish Permissive Bill Association. The deputation consisted of Messrs Thomas Hardy, Manchester, Robert Mackay and Robt. Stevenston, Glasgow. The confe rence was h e ld i n the Good Templar's Hall, and was ...

... set John Jone ' — Alice ‘Thomas Law James Hardy Robert James Wilson Annie Wat Jobe Wateon David C. Currie M*Aulags Nisbet Agnes Com Atam Newall Jeanie Mor Chartes Liane Lan: ECTS. George Allan Wiliam Kean Andres lem Reno ‘Thomas Strathder Bx Duncan Ferries ...

... imformed |) Mr Ooartmey that the tay in publishi the index to ‘ Rymer’s Poshera been « » to the illmess and cleath of Sir Thomas Hardy. I is now in active tiow, however, amd] the complete vohame i expected to be for imsae to the public at the em! Of the ...

... we have in similar 3s 6d volumes the works of such authors as D. Christie Murray, Mee Oliphant, Bret Harts, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Annie %eery, and several others, fully justifying, we think, the remarks we have made regarding the completeness of M ...

... with which our readers are already familiar. Illustrations—Portrait of Professor Minto, and siews of the residences of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Rudyard Kipling. RECEIVED from the Drummond Depot, Stirling, a new packet— Chepstow Chips, or O'er True Tales. ...