... 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 ...

... Charles Whymper, for in- I stance, describes The Harvest of the Woods like one as well acquainted with woodcraft as c Mr Thomas Hardy himself, and lie adds to the 1 attractiveness of the article by his own sketches of woodland scenes. Professor Max Multler ...

... (LOn~don: Lougmane, Green, & Co.) has a good instalment of James Payn's new novel, Thicker than Water, a good story by Thomas H~ardy, entitled The Three Strsagers, and an amusing sketch by Charles Harvey, entitled 4A. Cabal aet the Theatre Fraucais ...

... excellent serial, Princess Aline, by Richard Harding Davis, is finished, and the other novel, Heart's Insurgent, by Thomas Hardy, is keeping well utp to the high standard of interest with which ii t was begun. The March number of THE .~NINETEHNTI( ...

... Perhaps there may be more complete H stories than ordinary, and it is noticeable that a w new serial, The Simpletons, by Thomas M Hardy, is begun, so that it affords suitable opportunity for new readers testing its value, hut otherwise the magazine deviates ...

... been for-warded to h;m by his English aiirres. Among those who h.ave cor- tributed to this present are, wve believe. Mr Thomas Hardy, MKr ksquitb. Mr Pincro, Mr J. R3L Barrie MLr Bleerbbohm Tree, and MKr Henry James. It is fitting that M1r Archer and MNr ...

... There are two good papers on provincial th hlife-the one by Mr C. Kegan Paul on The Rustic wi s, of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, and the other lai di by Mrs Loftie on Dulness. An amusing-novelette qu 5s byMiss Alice Corkran,entitled Miss Martha's ...

... announced, Messrs Greening & Co. are to have ai I rival list of English Writers of To-Day. Mono- graphs on George Meredith. Thomas Hardy, i and Arthur Wing Pinero are in preparation for the series of Meszirs Greening. Mr T. P. O'Connor's gossipy paper M.A ...

... now been so long ,h cnncted. The stories he has secured promise a well, and the inames of their respeebive authors, 'e Thomas Hardy and Jean Ingelow, are sufficient r guarantee for their merit. The Trumpet-Major n opens in an exceedingly happy manner; ...

... cigar. Mr Anthony Trollope. too, -gives his testimony in favour of the weed, having been C, a smoker all his life. 7i1 Thomas Hardy neversmoked C a pipeful in his life, and never found alcohol helpfulin a , novel writing. Mr James Payn is a constant smoker ...

... pressionist S- riesa (London: Jarroild & Sons.)- In these short stories Mr Morley hias obviously drawvn his inspiration from Thomas Hardy, and, as is the case wvith his master, his descriptions of naturc psscss a true rustic Wordwsvorthiani flavour, while his ...

... They are all fall of action, lively, and really racy of the soil-farm cy soil for the nskt part The author seems, like ry Thomas Hardy, to make a speciality of minute id observation, and uses the faculty to good effect s in imparting realism to his work ...