... A CHRIST^gAS STORY, ENTERED BENIGHTED TRAVELLERS,: BY THOMAS HARDY, Author of A Laodicoan, Far 6Mot the .* Madding Crowd, &c., Sill appear in the. WEEKLV SupPPLEME1T to the LmpDs M~ERcUrY, on0 ZATURDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 17. 4e Ad portion of ?? .Netws ...

... - CHRISTMAS STORY, !ZNTITLED BENIGHTED TRAVELLERS, BY THOMAS -HARDY, Author of Far from the Maddmig irowd, o&., will appear in NE=T ;ATtURDAY'6 WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT 'Io ToH LEEDS MERCURY, fn addition to the. HOME and FOREIGN NEWS of the WEEK, the austomary ...

... an inquest was hold before Mtr. Arthur Buchannan, coroner for the district, at the Royal Hotel, Redoar, on the bodies of Thomas Hardy Middleton, thirty-thiee years of age; George Royal Taylor, tweuty- four yeers of age; Richard Robson, twenty-.sven years ...

... East if we mind our own business and keep within our frontiers. The number is enriched also with a complete story by Mr. Thomas Hardy, and an ode to the wind by Mr. Swinburne. ...

... CLoun1t-OlERTsor.-Onl the 21st irt., at St. Michael-in-the Hamiet, Liverpool, by the R1ev. 0. W. A. Clarke, 'Thomas Carter, eoi of the lato Thomas Clough, of Malten, to Helen, uatishter of ia tbe late i. W. Robertson, of London. i9 Gn.FF1Tis-WIL0oz-April ...

... George Cock bum—a thorough paced Tory politics in naval administration —and Sir Thomas Hardy— a ahrowd and far-arcing reformer. Sir George Cock burn dreamt of the past. Thomas Hardy bred for the fntnre: not only a reformer, but moat prudent reformer, for considered ...

... A CHRISTMAS STORY, > . 13~~ENITI;ED - , BENIGHTED TRAVELLERS, r f BY . - THOMAS HARDY, L Author of ,A Laddicean, Far from the . - . ~Madding Crowd, &c., Will appear in the WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT to the LEEDS MEROURY, on SATUJRDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 17. . 3itts ...

... Isherwood, only son of oaMreL Isherwood. Esq., of Bank House, Drnmcar, to Martha Gertrude Jackson, third daughter of the late Thomas Hardy Jackson. Esq.. of The Grove, LTversedge. IAt home, Shorefleld, Dunscar. near Boiton, November ord to 8th) MHanxsctO-PAR&XnT0s ...

... a book of quite formidable dimen- sions on what he terms The Art of Thomas Hardy. The volume, truth to tell, throws quite as much light on Mr. Lionel Johnson as on Mr. 'Thomas Hardy, but the egotism and pedantry of this elaborate essay in criticism, ...

... Kershaw, l,at7; John Brigre, 1,890; F. H. Baatham, 1,67b; A- H. Tbwaitee, . Jama Holmea, 654. Four Guardiaas required. Thomas Yatas Hardy: Atwick, Skufingtoa, a=J Arram, George Mason Gale; Joseph Biltoa, George England; Baawick, Mnea Topbaa; aad Grange, ...

... English, Scotch, German, and Creole blood in his veins. Mr. Coventry Patmore is English, Scotch, and Prussian descent. Mr. Thomas Hardy is of French descent, with a remote trace Irish blood. Mr. Austin Dobson has a decided French strain, and Mr. Walter ...

... our prose writers. There are more or less satisfactory studies of Robert Louis Stevenson. George Meredith, Hall Caine, Thomas Hardy. Kudyard Kipling, George Macdonald. •T. M. Barrie, H. R. Crocket*, lan Maclaren, Mario Corclii. Mark Twain. Bret Harte ...