... —On Friday evanmg **■*■ Bey. Thomas Hardy, Ptow lis- Wester, gavw * ?? tion of readings m the Mason*' Hall, in oamutmttm with the course of popular lectures, Mr ?? Burns, Ferntower, presided. The attendance MB good. Mr Hardy appeared to gwat adi-Jilßfl* ...

... Perth; Mr J. Thomas, sheriff-clerk, Perth ; the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Gordon, Monzievaird : See. Religious services were conducted at the front door of the mansion by the Rev. Hugh M. Jamie*on, parish minister of Monzie, and the Rev. Thomas Hardy, of Foulis- ...

... —Captain James Scott Black of Balgowan ; Mr James Comrie, farmer. South Buchanty ; Mr David Dickie, farmer, Newbigging;Rev. Thomas Hardy, minister of Fowlis Wester; and Captain A. Home Drummond Moray of Abercairny. There are no changes in the membership from ...

... source of strength in the team, freer! from the effects of the unfortunate accident which he sustained last season. Mr Thomas Hardy, the energetic- secretary, also the victim of an accident last season, will not, we understand, appear very often in the ...

... charge of the crane was particular giving waruing before swinging the box, coutaining the stones, rnuml overhead. Patrick Thomas Hardy farthi r, and prove that warning was given the man at the crane on this particular occasion, just Wfore the accident, and ...

... the writings of the most popular authors, there being in the present number gleanings from Dickens, Bret Captain Marryat, Thomas Hardy, and other less known but highly meritorious writers. There is given with the present instalment presentation plate, Joan ...

... Messrs Greening & Co. have in preparation for :heir 44 JKngli'h Writers of To-Day series, monographs Georere Meredith. Thomas Hardy, tnd Arthur Wing Pinero, well as the irolumes Algernon Charles Swinburne and 'Richard Gallienne, already promised ...

... novelist, author of Far from the Mad ding Crowd, &c., Thomas Hardy, who makes of the various personages tell a story the cluster tales going under the title of A Group of Nobl® Dames. That Mr Hardy makes his story-teller* speak with point and vivacity ...

... fewer words would be welcome. Nevertheless, tho cleverness of ihe story, as a whole, cannot be doubted. Wessex Folk, by Thomas Hardy, is well worth reading, and so is tho Argentine Provincial Sketches, by Theodore Child, who is always in- teresting. ...

... residing in the West Poit, a veteran named Thomas Hardy, who served in Nelson's ship at the great sea fight, and who also took part as one of the crew of the Shannon in the memorable engagement with the Chesapeake. Hardy, though iv his 90!,h year, i* still hale ...

... of British Guiana. On Friday morning Lady Seaford died at Hampton Court, aged ninety. She was the relict of Captain Sir Thomas Hardy, Flag Captain of Lord Nebon when met his death. She was found on Friday by her maid in a fit in her bedroom, and never ...

... describes a visit to the homo of Charlotte Bronte. Two short stories may recommended as excellent reading—The Lady Penelope, Thomas Hardy, and The Lieutenant, May Kendall. Edward odd contributes masterly article, full of that interest and thought which nh ...