... MR THOMAS HARDY AT HOME. The home of Mr Thomas Hardy, author of Tess of tho IVUrberville?,'’ is near Dorchester, the capital of tho Channel county of Dorset. The bouse stands considerable distance to tho cast the town commanding ridge, with a fine view ...

... MR THOMAS HARDY AND HIS CRITICS. It is so seldom that Thomas Hardy withdraws from his almost seclusion that even a short letter:from him in a daily pajier will read with interest. JScmeone in the Chronicle having vented a suspicion that Mr ...

... Mr Thomas Hardy holds that fiction should embody developments of life in which people silently believe, rather than these in which people pretend to believe ; and be has kept this view from one end to the other of bis shelf-full of novels. Lady Brooke ...

... ZJTBBATUBB. ART. MUSIC. ia said that Mr Thomas Hardy has under consideration the project dramatising hia naval Tees, with view to the impersonation Sb leading character by Patrick Campbell Mr Henry James has collected and revised number of eketchte and ...

... appeared in the PaU Mall Gazette. I suppose I have interviewed more novelists, English and American, than anyone else. Thomas Hardy, Grant Alien, Hall Caine, Mark Twain, Stockton, and Howells have all FURNISHED ME WITH DELIGHTFUL COPY. I have interviewed ...

... that name certain stigma. person who has been reading in the news- papers about Thomas Hardy, the novelist, writes . to a London contemporary -.—“ Apropos of Thomas Hardy, I have medal with a beautiful likeness of him, struck in commemoration of his acquittal ...

... by-the-bye, a fine concert hall has just been completed at the far end. I was pleased to see that the admirable reprints of Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr William Black, Mr R. D. Blackmore, and Mr W. C. Russell, whereby Messrs Sampson Low & Co. have conferred a boon upon ...

... now, out 6f print. HOW THOMAS HARDY BECAME 'A NOVELIST. t ;. - Mr. Thomas Hardy had as hard a fight as any man makp his 'way in literature, and the way was not made pleasanter to him by his modest, want of faith in himself. Mr Hardy was ...

... assistance. ME THOMAS HARDY AND THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS. A richly-deserved compliment has been paid to Mr Thomas Hardy his election to fill the place on the council of the Society of Authors, vacated by the death of Wilkie Collins. Mr Hardy ...

... literature, naked why tbe heir apparent of literature Mr. George Meredith, or the poet Mr. Austin Dobson, or the novelist Mr. Thomas Hardy was not asked to speak such subject. In face of their silence Mr. Gosse made very pleasant speech, and his effort was worthily ...

... well an Georg.. Macdonald, Re. We mimed a mention of Thomas Hardy, and could have told him of an baser of unalloyed happiness we had tine afternoon this week sitting in the Grand Hall with Hardy's Under the Greetirestrl Tree before us and the Coldstream ...

... pathetic processes, their superstitious, their mixture heroism Mid imagination and blindness. In his own particular realm Mr Thomas Hardy is indeed safer and more natural than Mr Meredith. These qualities shine forth amidst not a little improbability of incident ...