... sudden bursting into literary fame of Mr Duu lanurier, is more remarkable than the dead-set which has been made against Mr Thomas Hardy for the character and presumed moral tendencies of his last story, Jude the Obscure. Even where the work or its author ...

... literary rather than in thiatrical work. The e best of the series was a one-act piece entitled The Wayfarers, by Mr Thomas Hardy, author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. The Y piece is understood to be based upon one of Mr I Rdy's Wessex stories, and ...

... operas of Millocher, Genee, Strauss, and others. The Grand Ducal orchestra of forty players will accompany the troupe. Mr Thomas Hardy has, it seems, again taken up the idea of dramatising Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but he will probably be associ- ated ...

... ar inspiring moral foret-such a. force as Carlyle was to Dickens-that ?? made the suprenre British novelist of our day, Thomas Hardy himself. bow the lknee to Ophelia. At one time Mr Hariy had and worshipped Faith. There is no better passage even. irn ...

... public appreciate, the writing of i 'Miss Marie Corelli and Ur Hall Caine very-a much more than they do Ate writing of Mrj Thomas Hardy and Mr George Meredith. That -may be a clear proof of their want of taste in literatures for not even the warmest admirer ...

... popular of purely English v novelists? The most commanding and ag- gressive personality among them at the present time is Mr Thomas Hardy, and yet the best of his characters, especially of his ?? characters, are sO intensely local pro- ducts that it is almost ...

... is an old controversy-in the New ci-C6 last month, and espouses the side of Walter Besant against Airs Lynn Linton aud Thomas Hardy with brilliant effect. MAurray's Magazine is of,bigh literary merit, although not very lively. Mr Morris's novel Marcia ...

... verses, and stories by such masters in their respective arts as W. D. Howells, R. L. Stevenson, Thomas Bailv Aldrich, Bret Harte, Walter Besaut, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, H. C. Bunner, Mrs Buraett, and George W. Cable. It is doubtful if somanynotablew ...

... I ILITERAT-UE. ' I Thomas Hardy. By Annie Macdo its. I (London Hodder & Ssonghton.)-Is it alto- i' gath reasornable to write a vhole book aebot a still lining author whose work is not yet rounded off and done? The wvriter of this) tasteful and discriminating ...

... Fisher Unwin.) In Smrnrlot (tn2d Grey Stories of Soldiers and O:lrs. Bv Florence Henniker. The Spectre ofthe Peat. By Thomas Hardy and Florence Henniker.-Day-Boobs. By Mabel E. Wotton. (London : John Lane.) The U/oseing Door. By Ossip Schubin. Translated ...

... will bless . him for his choice, and will enjoy his very e interesting lectures on George Eliot, Nathaniel f Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy, George MNacDonald, a and Mark Rutherford mueh more than the tuulpeemoson time Rig Veda, this Hexa-' t ?? ot.'eshould ...

... Astotheserenerratreif Which they are but a part, one may fitly fled PictclO counterpart of our greatest lanedscapist infic Thomas Hardy. Mr PFyntaer Mr Frank Dicksee, tir V Cole, and Mr H. S. Marks, and, amengona t diders, Mr S& O'Connor, J. Solomon, 11r ...