... crowd is so frequentlyused in the picturesque use of the English language, that one is apt to forget the author of it. Mr Thomas Hardy, the popular novelist, was thirtyfour when he produced the story so named, in which the humour and pathos of agricultural ...

... well worth the twopence the publisher has the courage to charge in these days of the universal penny. A serial story by Thomas Hardy (the first since his great work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles); also stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, A. Cohan Doyle, ...

... new novel, which is begun by Thomas Hardy. Per it would be more to call it a series of novels, as thet is the form which it has hitherto borne. Ove of the st ries is comic, the other par takes of the pature of a y Mr Hardy with teasure is always toteresting ...

... supewitition current amons the peasantry, and with e tragic segued It is not difficult to detect in the story the pen of Mr Thomas Hardy, the novelist. Ir is rid that Miss Braddoe awns 04500 each novel she writes, sod ber custom is to publish two a year. Ma ...

... neoweity of making way for the splendour of the Christmas number nest month. In it we ars to have the fins part of a Doi el by Thomas Hardy, and those who have reed his former works will look forward to it with pleasure. ' Graham's Voice' is an amusing little ...

... W►lter Crane—illustrated by himself—Mr J. H. Shorthouse, and Mr W. Goree ; and last, but certainly not least, a story by Mr Thomas Hardy. CHICIICR, the author of those immensely popular Studies from Homer, kn., is about to give to the public a book of ...

... Tits review of William Barnes' Life in the Athenerunt is from the pen of his neighbour and friend, Mr Thomas Hardy, the well-known novelist. Mr Hardy complains of some local inaccuracies, and paints out the interesting fact that there is no evidence that ...

... festive, and is moat seasonsble in the last month of the year. Among the more noticeable of the contents is the 6r.t pint of Thomas Hardy 's novel. entitled The Simpletons.' The scene is laid in the author's favoured Weever, about which he bss already written ...

... •peak at More or le-a ler gth of Lbckeris Thacketay, E i t. Mies Lynn Linton, Mt redith, R. 11. Idockenore. Hall Caine, Thomas hardy. Doyle, St a nley ' Wormier, Rider Hogg od, Ilwiy rJ Kiting, ii. R. Crockett, Beet. Zola. Maarten Mantem, aud, Imtly, the ...

... MISS M , HARDY'S REOITAL. Oxs of the meet enjoyable high-elan entertainments that have taken place in Thurso vresgiven by Mies Mary M'Hardy in the Town Hall on Monday evening. It consisted of songs and readings, many of them in character, and all done ...

... Whatever the failure of these hardy and next-to-masterless nomads may prove to be, it is obvious that if ever, during the next twenty or thirty years, the territory lying between the Permian Gulf and the southern shores of the Mediterranean becomes the ...

... Aitchison, Fort- Watson, Portteshouteek Mies Jeseie Watson, do. Bells Watson, do. Mr (tearer Watson, do. Mr Hardie, Brae of Central Mn Hardie. do. Mr Hair, Fawn ROWAN CO/TAGIL Mn Hope Pitcairn, lilniard, Newburgh Mr David Pitcairn, do. Margaret Kidd, ...