... Drurnwond-.Norie. With an Introductory Poem bv A'ice Ct. !Jacdonell tf Ke~rpoch. 10s. &d. Glasrow'- Wi'i- SX POEAC~S. By Thomas Hardy, 6S. Harper R')MZIS! Wi'H{OTT THPt POPE IN T'HE. CHIUit'l-1i(F E-NOLAND. By the tiov. Henry ?? Ciake BA. 4,. 6d. I-I. W ...

... life-beats are low, Other and graver things . . . Hold we to braver things- Wait we-in trust-what Time's fulness shall know. THOMAS HARDY. ...

... MR. COMYNS CARR'S dramatised version of Far From the Madding Crowd was produced with the authority of the author, Mr. Thomas Hardy, at the PRINCE OF WALES'S Theatre, Liverpool, on Monday evening. The new piece, which is described as a ...

... DAVISON MOY THOMAS DUTTON COOK G. A. SALA J. OXENFORD F. ANSTEY HUGH CONWAY R. JEFFERIES W. S. GILBERT HENRY M. STANLEY H. H. JOHNSTON MRS. OLIPHANT BRINSLEY RICHARDS ANDREW LANG ASHBY STERRY J. GREENWO.-D GEORGE MACDONALD THOMAS HARDY ROBERT BUCHANAN ...

... as Dame Margery was very satisfactory. The other parts were well sus- tained by the Messrs W. H. Williams, H. Langford, Thomas Hardy, A. S. Homewood, W. S. Scott, and Honeyman, and Misses Robson and Meredith. The other pieces produced during the week have ...

... applause to her playing of Leonard's Souvenir de Bade. An occasional epilogue, rather ponderously written by Mr Thomas Hardy, had some merit not its own imparted to it by Miss Ada Behan,, whose appearance in proprid persondI before the curtain ...

... will have the faintest idea as to Mr. Hardy's meaning unless, perhaps, she happens to be the wile of a wheelwright. Another eminent novelist of to-day., Mr. W. E. Norris, is wiser in his generation than Mr. Thomas Hardy, for the autinorof Major and Minor' ...

... THE HERR V WITVES OF WESSEX.* MR. THOmAs HARDY, if we are not mistaken, was one of the novelists who raised a plaintive wail, some time ago, over the shadkleg-imprned upon their genius by Anglo-Saxon prudery. We have never felt any great sympathy with ...

... second with Gaudy Poll; Mr. T. H. Miller third with Marina (wiso was second in the yearling class last year) ; and Mr. Thomas Hardy fourth with Mero Duchess. Among three - year - olds a very hastdsome black brown mars, named Dunsenore Bracelet, was far ...

... 4 u TIlE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by Thomas Hardy (3 vols.: Smith and Elder).-In this fine work-perhaps the most artisti- cally perfect that we have yet had from himi-Mr. Hardy more than retrieves the ground he lost in its immediate predecessor, The ...

... the Strana is Mr. Montagu Williams, Q.C., and there are the usual ' Portraits of Celebrities -Salvini, Corney Grain, Thomas Hardy, and Mis. Keeley being among those given. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINES The boom in Chicago, or the City of the World's ...

... credit with preparing what artists call a coloured sketch. He is not a colourist in the sense that Mr. Blackmore or Mr. Thomas Hardy are colourists; neither do his characters exhibit the irrepressible vitality of Charles Reade's men and women. But such ...